Heidegger

> I hate to interrupt the silence to ask such a mundane and
> uninteresting question, which is, where in the later Heidegger might
> one find something of a rejection of hermeneutics, especially
> Gadamer’s?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Allen
>

Allen, I have no idea concerning any decent answer to the concrete question
in your perturbation of the silent flowing of this nonetheless strangely
present list, but I wonder where in the world does Heidegger reject
anything? Apart from the plainly unthoughtful. Is he not the thinker of the
neither/nor? All those metaphysical (often dual) distinctions he seems to
dissolve in seeing them as the same, autochthonic, of the same flesh. The
thing to think is their sameness (in their apparent difference), the
identity in their opposition, and thus display difference-qua-difference
(be-ing). Rather than re-ject forms of thinking, does he not perhaps
pro-ject their very throwingness?

I’m sorry, Allen, this does not answer the question as to the possible
rejection of Gadamer’s hermeneutics, but if we can hear re-jection as a
re-throwing (into the philosophical fray), throwing it up for grabs (showing
the thinking the unthought), then he probably did do such rejection.
Probably Pete would know where in his oeuvre.

regards and thanks for the lone voice that articulates the silence

michael the P

Posted on Sunday, October 25th, 2009 at 6:00 am
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