Heidegger

In a message dated 28/11/2006 07:58:35 GMT Standard Time,
michael at sandwich-de-sign.co.uk writes:

Jud;
Great poetry [and appreciation of same]… but… crap ontology.

Heideggerianism in a nutshell.

regards,

jud.

“Into numberless reflections
Rises a smile from your eyes into mine
Frozen warnings close to mine
Close to the frozen borderline
Frozen warnings close to mine
Close to the frozen borderline”
[Nico, ‘Frozen Borderlines’, on the album ‘The Marble Index’]

Just been reading Heidegger’s sensitive reading of Stefan George’s ‘Words’
poem (in ‘On The Way To Language’) and whilst beginning to doze away with
the last words of the last line ringing in me, I found myself reversing the
sung order:

“where word breaks off no thing may be”

to:

“where thing breaks off no word may be”

and finding it to be just as meaningful. Briefly, I mean that where thing
breaks off is at the site of the boundary of things, of thingness [Nico’s
frozen borderline…], the difference/differencing that is no thing, the
edging of that whereness whereupon something is rather than nothing: be-ing.

I mean that one must renounce any announcement of what is where thing breaks
off, one must resist its name, one might then be crossing its label
(”be-ing”) through in the very act of pronouncing or articulating it. Whilst
all things have names, can be announced, where things break off no name can
be… such naming must be renounced.

regards

michaelP

Posted on Tuesday, November 28th, 2006 at 8:45 am
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