Heidegger

> You announced a call for a phenomenological approach to the current
> geopolitical situation - could you possibly proffer any ideas yourself? I am
> genuinely interested to see how that might pan out. I recently read an
> interesting article by A J Mitchell of Stanford University on Heidegger’s
> remarks and diagnosis of terror in ‘Basic Problems’, ‘Contributions’, ‘The
> End of Philosophy’ and a few other texts. It makes fascinating reading but
> my own fluency and familiarity with these texts is far from ample to offer
> anything but banal and rehashed versions of what others have already said far
> more profoundly. So in brief could you please indicate what exactly this
> form of phenomenological approach would consist in, and perhaps some
> preliminary remarks regarding its applicability in concrete instances.

I’ve never come across a satisfying leap from phenomenology to useful
insights into the geopolitical situation; from either end of the
political spectrum.

I have a pdf of the Mitchell paper. As pointed out, its mainly Later
Heidegger and not phenomenology. It’s 350 KB, which may be too much
for many mail systems, but if anyone is interested I can bung it on
an http server for a day. Let me know by private email.

Posted on Sunday, June 4th, 2006 at 3:20 am
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