Heidegger

> In article , GEVANS613 at aol.com writes
> quoting Faye supposedly quoting Heidegger
>>*identifying the hidden enemies within the nation - “in order to annihilate
>>them totally:”
>
>
> Philippe Arjakovsky points out that Faye is not quoting from an
> unpublished lecture but from one that was published several years ago
> and nothing remarkable was seen in it at the time. It only becomes so
> when Faye quotes out of context.
>
> Arjakovsky:
>
> “There is the question of ‘the radical need to find the enemy’ and ‘to
> initiate an attack with a view to their total annihilation’ [quoting
> H]
> … One sees that the passage cited on the enemy and combat is taken
> in reality from a commentary on a fragment of Heraclitus, the
> celebrated fragment DK53 which says that ‘polemos is the father of
> everything that is’ and the thesis in general of the chapter is that
> polemos, combat, is for the Greeks the essential home of all that
> is, well beyond all human activity.”
>
> Above taken from http://parolesdesjours.free.fr/scandale….

Thanks, Philip, in the past I have discussed this Heraclitian fragment,
arguing that _polemos_ can not be (in the context of the actual fragment)
translated as what we understand as war (especially if one bothers with the
full fragment and not just the famous first clause). I visited the relevant
article on the site you provide above, and of course, it’s in French: is
there an English translation available, and, if not, can you cite me
Heidegger’s commentary on frag DK53 that Arjakovsky refers to?

regards

michaelP

Posted on Thursday, August 31st, 2006 at 5:20 am
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