Heidegger

michaelP:
>> Look how lovingly Heidegger critiques Rilke (in Heidegger’s ‘Parmenides’ ,
>> towards the end on Rilke’s 8th Duino Elegy), not to put him down or to put
>> him right, but to open up a difference, a difference regarding the open, a
>> difference regarding the difference in a difference different from all
>> differences, a difference that differs from its self. Two opens, one
>> difference, the difference, the mother of all differences.

Bernard:
> Yes, and that sums up the Platonic imperative distinction between the
> ruling philosopher and the subjunctive poet.
> Bernard

Bernard, what is a “subjunctive poet”?

regards

michaelP

Posted on Monday, January 7th, 2008 at 4:05 pm
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