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- [Heidegger Circle Satellite Session at the 2026 APA Central](https://heidegger-circle.org/heidegger-circle-satellite-session-at-the-2026-apa-central/) - Topic: Heidegger and Nietzsche Chair:Steven C. Burgess (Benedictine University) Speakers:Babette Babich (Fordham University)“Heidegger’s Gnostic Nihilism: Reading the Two Taubes, Nietzsche, and Anaximander” Iain Thomson (University of New Mexico)“Why Did Heidegger Say ‘Nietzsche Broke Me [Nietzsche hat mich kaputtgemacht]’?” Megan Flocken (Catawba College)“Heidegger contra Nietzsche: Knowledge, Nihilism, and Enmity in Being-as-Art”
- [Bereavement: John Sallis](https://heidegger-circle.org/bereavement-john-sallis/) - The presence of John Sallis will be deeply missed. John was a long-time fixture of the Heidegger Circle and was the Frederick J. Adelmann, S.J. Professor of Philosophy at Boston College. Previously, he held Chairs at Pennsylvania State University, Vanderbilt University, Loyola University of Chicago, and Duquesne University. John died on February 18, 2025 at
- [SPEP Book Showcase for 2025 (Online)](https://heidegger-circle.org/spep-book-showcase-for-2025-online/) - The Heidegger Circle satellite session at the SPEP annual conference took place on Friday,October 24, 2025, from 9:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. (EDT). The session featured a book showcase of:Kate Davies, Heidegger’s Conversations: Towards a Poetic Pedagogy Moderator:Andrew Mitchell (Emory University) Presenters:Teelin Lucero (Emory University)Ian Moore (Loyola Marymount University)Drew Hyland (Trinity College) Respondent:Kate Davies (University
- [Heidegger Circle Satellite Session at the 2026 APA Pacific](https://heidegger-circle.org/heidegger-circle-satellite-session-at-the-2026-apa-pacific/) - Moderator:John M. Rose (Goucher College) Speakers:Matteo Valdarchi (Pontificia Università Gregoriana)“From Subjectivity to Subjectness: Heidegger’s Ontological Reading of Hegel’s Phenomenology” David Batho (Red Rocks Community College)“Heidegger’s Concept of Death” Matthew Kwak (University of Kentucky)“The Place of Transcendental Philosophy in Heidegger’s Later Thought”
- [Call for Papers for Heidegger Circle Satellite Sessions with the APA](https://heidegger-circle.org/call-for-papers-for-heidegger-circle-satellite-sessions-with-the-apa/) - The Heidegger Circle welcomes submissions on any topic in Heidegger scholarship from postgraduate and early career researchers for its third annual Theodore Kisiel Junior Scholar Award to be presented at our satellite session at the Eastern APA between January 8-11, 2025, at the Sheraton, New York Times Square. Up to two honorable mentions may also
- [SPEP 2024](https://heidegger-circle.org/spep-2024/)
- [Members of the Heidegger Circle](https://heidegger-circle.org/16457-2/) - The Executive Committee was contacted a few days ago to let us know that Wayne Froman passed away on March 5, 2023 after a long and fruitful career in philosophy at George Mason University. Wayne was a leading scholar of 20th century European philosophy, especially the thought of Martin Heidegger, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Emmanuel Levinas, and
- [PARVIS EMAD](https://heidegger-circle.org/parvis-emad/) - Members of the Heidegger Circle, The Executive Committee was contacted a few days ago to let us know that Parvis Emad, 87, passed away peacefully on February 16, 2023, surrounded by the loving presence of his family. Parvis Emad was a world-renowned scholar in continental philosophy and phenomenology, specifically as an educator, interpreter and translator
- [BEREAVEMENT : ALAN MILCHMAN](https://heidegger-circle.org/bereavement-alan-milchman/) - Members of Alan Milchman's family share with great sorrow the news of his sudden and unexpected death in August at the age of 81. In addition to being a longtime member of The Heidegger Circle, Alan was a lifelong scholar and a passionate educator; he taught political philosophy and political science for fifty-one years at
- [BEREAVEMENT : THEODORE KISIEL](https://heidegger-circle.org/bereavement-theodore-kisiel/) - It is with profound sadness that we report that Theodore Kisiel, a founding member of The Heidegger Circle, passed away early on Christmas morning at the age of 91 after a long illness. A renowned Heidegger scholar who taught at Northern Illinois University until his retirement, Ted was author of the seminal study The Genesis
- [Ted Kisiel Junior Scholar Award Session](https://heidegger-circle.org/ted-kisiel-junior-scholar-award-session/) - The Heidegger Circle of North America welcomes submissions on any topic in Heidegger scholarship from postgraduate and early career researchers for its annual Satellite Session at the Eastern APA. The second annual Ted Kisiel Junior Scholar Award will go to the best submission, and up to two honorable mentions may also be featured on the
- [SPEP Book Showcase for 2023 in Toronto](https://heidegger-circle.org/spep-book-showcase/)
- [HC at 2024 APA Central](https://heidegger-circle.org/hc-at-2024-apa-central/) - The Heidegger Circle of North America welcomes submissions on any topic in Heidegger scholarship for its annual Satellite Session at the Central APA (New Orleans, February 2024). This is an open call, so papers will be assessed irrespective of the author’s rank. Please send submissions of no more than 4000 words (excluding notes) with a

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## Topics

- [Nanjing University/Chinese Translation](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/nanjing-university-chinese-translation/) - Greetings, friends. I was delighted to give an invited lecture on my Heidegger scholarship to scholars and students, hosted by Nanjing University. A lively discussion followed. The Chinese translation of my "Heidegger's Way of Being" will be published in August 2026. I attach an earlier draft of front and back covers. This book has been
- [Celebrating New Teachers: Education and Metaphysics with Squaring and Circling](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/celebrating-new-teachers-education-and-metaphysics-with-squaring-and-circling/) - Hi everyone I’ve been on vacation from blogging until the Fall, but I encountered some very enthusiastic education students from the local university recently who had a table event at a Sobeys grocery store, and I was inspired to write a post dedicated to new teachers – reflecting my experiences teaching primary, junior, intermediate, Special
- [(Rational) Animal](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/rational-animal-2/) - Hello Colleagues, My most recent book, (Rational) Animal, is now available, which serves as an attempt to move beyond my first book, Heidegger and the Environment, and think through an answer to Heidegger's questions/statements at the end of The Principle of Reason: "Does the above-mentioned determination that humans are the animal rationale exhaust the essence of humanity?
- [2026 Business Meeting Agenda, Past Minutes](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/2026-business-meeting-agenda-past-minutes/) - Dear all, Please find attached two documents for your review: the Minutes from the 2025 Business Meeting at Duquesne the Agenda for the upcoming 2026 Business Meeting at Emory If you have any suggested revisions to the minutes or additional items for the agenda, please bring them to the Business Meeting on Saturday, May 16,
- [Heidegger's Complete Writings: A Bibliography](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/heideggers-complete-writings-a-bibliography/) - Dear Colleagues, Tobias Keiling, Katherine Withy, and I have compiled an extensive bibliography of Heidegger's writings in German and English translation. It is forthcoming in the Oxford Handbook of Heidegger, and we intend to keep it up to date online here: https://heideggerswritings.org/ If you see any errors or omissions, please let me
- [Heidegger Workshop Online Presentations](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/heidegger-workshop-online-presentations/) - The Heidegger Workshop will be hosting a series of online presentations with Q&A sessions, beginning with Dan Dahlstrom (Boston University) in a few weeks and Julia Ireland (Whitman College) in June. Dan’s presentation will be held at 5 pm ET on Friday, May 8th, and the title is: “Ethical Notes in Heidegger’s Existential Analysis: What
- [2026 HC Conference Program and Registration](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/2026-hc-conference-program-and-registration/) - Sending on behalf of Ben Brewer Hello everyone, Please find attached the provisional program for this year’s meeting. All talks will take place at the Courtyard Marriott Atlanta Downtown Decatur/Emory (130 Clairemont Ave, Decatur, GA 30030). The hotel is in the middle of downtown Decatur, which is walkable and full of restaurants, bars, and shops.
- [Heidegger Conversations in Vigo](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/heidegger-conversations-in-vigo/) - Lee Braver and I will be hosting a conversation on Heidegger's 1955 lecture "What Is That – Philosophy?" in May in Vigo, Spain. Details here. Come join us!
- [Deleuze on being](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/deleuze-on-being/) - According to Gilles Deleuze, being insists in propositions as sens and comes over states of things (états de choses) as événement. Therefore what happens and what is said, that we might consider at first glance to be very different, are in fact the same. He writes: "si l'Être ne se dit pas sans arriver, si
- [Paperback version of The Great Detour](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/paperback-version-of-the-great-detour/) - All: I hope you're doing well. In case you are interested, the paperback version of The Great Detour: Heidegger and the Question of the Animal will soon be released -- I have attached a 30% off coupon to this posting. All the best for a nice spring, Shane.
- [New article in "Interpreting the New Heidegger"](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/new-article-in-interpreting-the-new-heidegger/) - I'm happy to announce the publication of a new article in the special issue of Philosophies I'm editing on interpreting the new Heidegger: Shane Ewegen, “The Death We Owe (for) Beyng." It can be read in open access at https://www.mdpi.com/2409-9287/11/2/46. This article joins two others: Francisco Gonzalez, “Unfolding the Manifold Senses of Being: Martin Heidegger’s 1930/31
- [New MA in Philosophy at UT Dallas](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/new-ma-in-philosophy-at-ut-dallas/) - Dear Heidegger Circle Colleagues, I’m pleased to share that the philosophy program at UT Dallas has recently launched a partially-funded master’s degree in philosophy. Graduate students in our program are eligible for competitive funding in the form of TA-ships and other scholarships. Our program offers grounding in the history of philosophy as well as guidance
- [America (Walt Whitman)](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/america-walt-whitman/) - Dear Colleagues, Dear Friends, At this pivotal juncture in the recent history of the United States, I wish to share several inspiring passages in which Walt Whitman not only underscores the dangers facing the democratic project but also identifies the essential characteristics of the destiny to which the American people are called. Engaging the new
- [Heidegger Circle at the APA Central Division, Friday February 20th in Chicago](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/heidegger-circle-at-the-apa-central-division-friday-february-20th-in-chicago/) - Hi, All, Heidegger Circle will have a session at the APA Central Division Friday night, February 20th from 7:00 to 9:50 P.M. Babette Babich, Iain Thomason, and Megan Flocken will be our speakers on the topic of Heidegger and Nietzsche. Here's the program: Topic: Heidegger and Nietzsche Chair: Steven C. Burgess (Benedictine University) Speakers: Babette
- [Derrida: Heidegger’s Christian Analysis of Death?](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/derrida-heideggers-christian-analysis-of-death/) - “Later, we will raise the question of whether, in order to sustain this existential analysis, the so-called ontological content does not surreptitiously reintroduce, in the mode of ontological repetition, theorems and theologemes pertaining to disciplines that are said to be founded and dependent – among others, Judeo-Christian theology, but also all the anthropologies that are
- [Annual Meeting Keynotes Announced](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/annual-meeting-keynotes-announced/) - Please see the attached CFP for the 2026 Heidegger Circle Annual Meeting that has been updated to highlight our keynote speakers: Claudia Baracchi (Milan-Bicocca) Alberto Moreiras (Texas A&M) Peter Trawny (Wuppertal) Remember to submit paper or panel submissions by January 15. We will be gathering May 15-17, 2026 at Emory University. Email submissions to heideggercircle2026@gmail.com with
- [Heidegger at APA Eastern 2026](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/heidegger-at-apa-eastern-2026/) - For those attending APA Eastern 2026 in Baltimore, sessions that reference Heidegger including the Heidegger Circle Satellite Session on Friday evening: https://bit.ly/Heidegger-APAEastern26
- [3rd Annual West-Coast Heidegger Workshop](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/3rd-annual-west-coast-heidegger-workshop/) - The third annual meeting of the WCHW will take place in San Francisco, on Jan. 16-17. We will be meeting at the SF Hilton Financial District. Keynotes: Richard Polt, Charles Bambach. Program is attached. Email me to register if attending.
- [Reading Group on Heidegger's Being and Time and Derrida's Secondary Works](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/reading-group-on-heideggers-being-and-time-and-derridas-secondary-works/) - Dear Folks, Last year, I formed the "Deconstruction Today" Reading Group - as one of the Mandel Center for the Humanities Working Groups - here at Brandeis University. That was over a year ago and, unfortunately, was dormant due to other intensive teaching commitments and publication deadlines. I am resuming a regular meeting
- [The Great Detour: Heidegger and the Question of the Animal](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/the-great-detour-heidegger-and-the-question-of-the-animal/) - All: I hope you are all having a nice fall. For those interested, my book on Heidegger and animality was published yesterday -- it is available through SUNY's webpage and on Amazon. If possible, please encourage your institution's libraries to buy a copy. (The price will go down considerably once the paperback edition comes out.)
- [2026 Gatherings CFP](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/2026-gatherings-cfp/) - Greetings! Please consider submitting your scholarship to Gatherings for the upcoming 2026 issue. For more information see the attached, and our website: https://heidegger-circle.org/gathering-submissions/ Deadline: February 1, 2026
- [2026 Heidegger Circle Annual Meeting CFP](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/2026-heidegger-circle-annual-meeting-cfp/) - We are pleased to announce the Call for Papers for the 60th Annual Meeting of the Heidegger Circle at Emory University, May 14-17, hosted by Ben Brewer and Andrew Mitchell. Please find the text of the Call below and attached as a PDF. Call for Papers 60th Annual Meeting of the Heidegger Circle Emory University, May 14–17,
- [Heidegger Reading Group](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/heidegger-reading-group/) - Dear Community Members, I am writing to let you know that John MacDonald and I have formed a reading group where we plan to read and discuss Heidegger's work. The reading group will meet once a month. We would like to invite you all to join us if you wish. First Meeting: November 3, 2025
- [The Mystery Of Being: Reconsidering the Mystical Element in Heidegger's Thought](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/the-mystery-of-being-reconsidering-the-mystical-element-in-heideggers-thought/) - I am delighted to announce the release of a new volume in the "New Heidegger Research" series, titled "The Mystery of Being: Reconsidering the Mystical Element in Heidegger's Thought." The book opens with an insightful foreword by John Caputo and features original contributions from Holger Zaborowski, Richard Capobianco, John Krummel, Lee Braver, Krzysztof Ziarek, Rajash
- [Fortuna Publica](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/fortuna-publica/) - There's more to Fortune than you think As she informs our destiny. While fortunes grow and fortunes shrink, There's still the whole economy. Though Fortune's not yet destiny She can become a public thing: The ups and downs of history That make us wail, that make us sing. To feel, to act, to be confirmed:
- [a poem](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/a-poem/) - Now things are named from gold to dung And quiet's gold or so I've heard, But silence needs the human tongue Because to be requires the word. It needs the contrast and the name. The contrast is with speech, of course, While speech by way of an exchange Receives from things a proper cause. 'To
- [DEADLINE EXTENDED - 2026 Central APA](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/deadline-extended-2026-central-apa/) - Greetings! The Heidegger Circle welcomes submissions on any topic in Heidegger scholarship for its annual Satellite Session at the Central Division of the APA. The Central Division Meeting will be February 18th to 21st at the Palmer House Hilton, Chicago, Illinois. The deadline for submissions has been extended to September 16th, 2025. Please send submissions of
- [2025 Heidegger Circle Mentoring Program](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/2025-heidegger-circle-mentoring-program/) - Dear Members of the Heidegger Circle, The Heidegger Circle Mentoring Program is in search of both mentors and mentees for the 2025-26 cohort. This one-year program is designed to: support emerging scholars whose work involves Heidegger in some way, and foster cross-generational community within the Heidegger Circle. Participants need not be current members of the
- [CFP: West-Coast Heidegger Workshop 3, in SF, Ca. Jan. 16-17, 2026](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/cfp-west-coast-heidegger-workshop-3-in-sf-ca-jan-16-17-2026/) - We invite submissions for an in-person 2-day conference to be held in San Francisco, January 16th - 17th, 2026, focusing on historical studies of Heidegger’s GA & studies of Heidegger’s GA in the history of philosophy. THREE AXES OF INTEREST We are interested in the scholarship of the Heidegger Gesamtausgabe, in the historical study of
- [2026 Central APA CFP](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/2026-central-apa-cfp/) - Greetings! The Heidegger Circle welcomes submissions on any topic in Heidegger scholarship for its annual Satellite Session at the Central Division of the APA. The Central Division Meeting will be February 18th to 21st at the Palmer House Hilton, Chicago, Illinois. The deadline for submissions to Central Division is September 2nd, 2025. Please send submissions of
- [New Book Forthcoming with Bloomsbury: 'Kierkegaard's Ontology'](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/new-book-forthcoming-with-bloomsbury-kierkegaards-ontology/) - Dear all, I'm writing to share that my book, Kierkegaard's Ontology: The Faith to Be, now has a pre-order page on Bloomsbury's website, and it looks to come out on January 8, 2026. Here is the link. This is why I'm sharing this with the Heidegger Circle: The book is an attempt, many years after
- [Heidegger and Classical Thought reading group 2025/26: GA 54.](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/heidegger-and-classical-thought-reading-group-2025-26-ga-54/) - Dear Colleagues, The Heidegger and Classical Thought research project, organised through the Knapp Foundation by Aaron Turner and Laurence Hemming, will resume its weekly reading group on Wednesday 15th October 2025 when we’ll begin working through Martin Heidegger’s lecture course, Parmenides. The text contains lectures delivered at the University of Freiburg during the 1942/43 Winter Semester and was published as
- [Extended Deadline for Emerging Scholars at APA Eastern](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/extended-deadline-for-emerging-scholars-at-apa-eastern/) - Greetings Friends and Members of the Heidegger Circle, I write on behalf of John Rose, Member at Large for Satellite Sessions of the Heidegger Circle, to share the following Calls for Papers (also attached). Please note the revised deadline for APA Eastern: July 15. Emerging scholars are encouraged to submit their papers. Please share
- [Call for papers: Interpreting the New Heidegger](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/call-for-papers-interpreting-the-new-heidegger/) - I am editing a special issue of the journal Philosophies: "Interpreting the New Heidegger." I welcome submissions that focus on material published in Heidegger's Gesamtausgabe since 2013. Deadline: July 1, 2026. For more information, please visit: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/philosophies/special_issues/HQADB63NN1
- [Welcome to the 2025 Heidegger Circle Meeting!](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/welcome-to-the-2025-heidegger-circle-meeting/) - I am looking forward to welcoming you to Duquesne University in Pittsburgh this weekend, starting on Thursday. Registration begins at the Africa Room in the Student Union at 1:00 PM, followed by one session, a keynote address, and concludes with the reception in the Simon Silverman Phenomenology Center. If you have any questions, please don’t
- [Business Meeting Agenda and Past Minutes](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/business-meeting-agenda-and-past-minutes-3/) - Dear all, Please find attached two documents for your review: The Minutes from the 2024 Business Meeting at Trinity The Agenda for the upcoming 2025 Business Meeting at Duquesne If you have any suggested revisions to the minutes or additional items for the agenda, please bring them to the Business Meeting on Saturday, May 17,
- [Business Meeting Agenda and Past Minutes](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/business-meeting-agenda-and-past-minutes-2/) - Dear all, Please find attached two documents for your review: The Minutes from the 2024 Business Meeting at Trinity The Agenda for the upcoming 2025 Business Meeting at Duquesne If you have any suggested revisions to the minutes or additional items for the agenda, please bring them to the Business Meeting on Saturday, May 17,
- [Business Meeting Agenda and Past Minutes](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/business-meeting-agenda-and-past-minutes/) - Dear all, Please find attached two documents for your review: The Minutes from the 2024 Business Meeting at Trinity The Agenda for the upcoming 2025 Business Meeting at Duquesne If you have any suggested revisions to the minutes or additional items for the agenda, please bring them to the Business Meeting on Saturday, May 17,
- [Marriott Reservations](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/marriott-reservations/) - Sorry for the multiplication of this notice. The cut-off date for reservations for the Marriott City Center is tomorrow, April 29. If you haven't yet reserved your room, please do so soon. Marriott has indicated that they cannot extend the deadline. If you are on the fence, it's better to reserve now and later cancel
- [Three new GA volumes](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/three-new-ga-volumes/) - Three "supplementary volumes" of the GA (103-105) are forthcoming: https://www.klostermann.de/epages/63574303.sf/de_DE/?ObjectPath=/Shops/63574303/Products/9783465046875/SubProducts/9783465046875 My attached bibliography now includes them.
- [Try again: Heidegger and Aquinas Conversation](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/try-again-heidegger-and-aquinas-conversation/) - Friends, very sorry, some have told me that the link I sent had a paywall. Here's the link to the full text: https://www.academia.edu/128817198/Heidegger_and_Aquinas_and_education_A_Conversation?email_work_card=title Best wishes, Richard C.
- [Heidegger and Aquinas (and education): A Discussion](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/heidegger-and-aquinas-and-education-a-discussion/) - Friends, just published, a collegial interview/discussion on Heidegger and Aquinas (and education) between Prof. Jude Chua and myself: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02188791.2025.2486833#abstract Best regards, Richard C.
- [Heidegger and Classical Thought Summer Symposium - Weds 11th June](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/heidegger-and-classical-thought-summer-symposium-weds-11th-june/) - Dear Colleagues, In May 2025 the Heidegger and Classical Thought research project will conclude its fourth annual reading group. The project itself was initiated by Laurence Hemming and myself in October 2019 when we hosted a monthly seminar in Senate House, London to discuss Heidegger's 1924/25 lectures on Plato's Sophist (GA 19), which was unceremoniously cut
- [Aristote et la théologie des vivants immortels](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/aristote-et-la-theologie-des-vivants-immortels/) - Aristote et la théologie des vivants immortels by Editions Bellarmin, 165 rue Deslauriers, St - Laurent, ( QUÉBEC ), 1992, Richard Bodéüs Does anybody know the above work? Would anybody have any idea how to get hold of a copy? (I know it's not Heidegger, but Aristotle is important for Heidegger.) Best wishes Andrew Price
- [GA 82: On My Own Publications](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/ga-82-on-my-own-publications/) - Recently, Indiana University Press released my translation of GA 82: On My Own Publications. Most of this volume sees Heidegger commenting on Being and Time, but here is the blurb from the IUP website. "On My Own Publications is the first English-language translation of volume 82 of Heidegger's Complete Works. Started a decade after Being and Time (1927), much
- [Chinese translation/"The Mystery of Being"](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/chinese-translation-the-mystery-of-being/) - Hello, friends, I will not be attending this year's HC meeting, but I wanted to share with you that the Chinese translation of my book Heidegger's Way of Being will be published soon by Guizhou University Press. I attach a photo (in black and white). I'm delighted that my work has now been translated and
- [Heidegger's Conversations](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/heideggers-conversations/) - I'm pleased to share that my book Heidegger's Conversations: Toward a Poetic Pedagogy (SUNY Press) is now available in paperback. Until April 30th, please use code "SNB325" for 30% off: https://sunypress.edu/Books/H/Heidegger-s-Conversations -Kate p.s. If you happen to be in the Dallas area this weekend, you're welcome to attend the author-meets-critics session devoted to Heidegger's Conversations at this year's
- [Heidegger and the Elements of (Human) Being](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/heidegger-and-the-elements-of-human-being/) - All: I hope you're doing well. In case anyone is interested, my recently published contribution to the Cambridge Elements series is available for free for the next two weeks through the following link: https://www.cambridge.org/core/elements/heidegger-and-the-elements-of-human-being/3BDFB953DED37388046F93396FD0D78B I am also happy to send the PDF to anyone who wants one. (Just email me at shane.ewegen@trincoll.edu) All the best,
- [The Big Ordeal](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/the-big-ordeal/) - I have written an eight line poem entitled 'La petite mort'. Perhaps it is all about ein 'Erleben' des Ablebens, an improper ending. Perhaps it is bravado, a pretence of readiness for some inevitable collision. On the other hand, perhaps it helps with fear. Here it is: 'The little death' implies the great, But
- [Hölderlin's Hellenism conference (24th-25th April)](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/holderlins-hellenism-conference-24th-25th-april/) - Dear Colleagues, This may be of interest to members of the Heidegger Circle. Registration is now open for the Hölderlin's Hellenism conference, which takes place online on Thursday 24th - Friday 25th April. Please find below the full programme. If you would like to register for the conference, please get in touch with me at aaron.turner@knappfoundation.ac.uk and
- [Being’s Independence and the Brauch](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/beings-independence-and-the-brauch/) - My good friend and colleague Richard Polt has shared a new piece that engages my own scholarship in a thoughtful way. But in the spirit of dialogue, I thought that I would offer a forthcoming essay of my own that presents my case more directly. See especially Part III of the essay for the particular
- [Heidegger on Presence](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/heidegger-on-presence-2/) - Heidegger on Presence, my contribution to the Cambridge Elements Heidegger series, is available to download free until March 20: https://www.cambridge.org/core/elements/heidegger-on-presence/D69A49F25512D078EB4555536D1A4D9D This short book grew from my talk at the 2024 Heidegger Circle. It investigates the meanings of "presence" in Heidegger's texts and asks whether he ever gave up his early critique of presence as the
- [Reaching for Himself: Bob Dylan and Bill Richardson, S.J.](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/reaching-for-himself-bob-dylan-and-bill-richardson-s-j/) - Reaching for Himself: Bob Dylan and Bill Richardson, S.J. By Jim McDermott https://crc.blog.fordham.edu/uncategorized/reaching-for-himself-bob-dylan-and-bill-richardson-s-j/
- [Heidegger: An Introduction, second edition](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/heidegger-an-introduction-second-edition/) - Cornell University Press has published a revised, expanded, and updated edition of my introduction to Heidegger (originally published in 1999). This new edition takes into account primary and secondary material published in the 21st century, with special attention to Heidegger's political views, but the main focus remains Being and Time. A convenient bibliography clearly shows
- [Heidegger’s “Pre-Aristotelians”: Nietzsche and Heidegger on Anaximander](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/heideggers-pre-aristotelians-nietzsche-and-heidegger-on-anaximander/) - In: Aaron Turner, ed., Heidegger and the Classics (Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2024), 39-96.
- [Frank A. Capuzzi](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/frank-a-capuzzi/) - I just discovered that Frank A. Capuzzi—translator of texts such as "Letter on 'Humanism,'" Early Greek Thinking, and Nihilism (Nietzsche, vol. IV) , died about three years ago. This is the text of his obituary, found at https://www.lastingtributesfuneralcare.com/obituaries/Frank-Capuzzi/#!/Obituary. Frank Anthony Capuzzi, 76, of Severna Park and Annapolis, Maryland, died peacefully on February 7, 2022,
- [Greek seminars](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/greek-seminars/) - Hi, Does anyone know if Heidegger's seminars in Greece (1962) have been published? Thanks, Pete
- [Heidegger's Anaximander](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/heideggers-anaximander-2/) - I was reading up on Anaximander and found this cool characterization: “The fragment of Anaximander presents one of the strongest hermeneutic challenges known to modem philology and philosophy.” (Prof Vassilis Lambropoulos: Stumbling.over the ‘Boundary Stone of Greek Philosophy’ Two Centuries-of Translating the Anaximander Fragment) I've been blogging about Heidegger, and if anyone is interested here
- [Heidegger @ APA Eastern 2025](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/heidegger-apa-eastern-2025/) - For those attending APA Eastern 2025 in NYC, sessions that reference Heidegger including the Heidegger Circle Satellite Session on Saturday morning: https://bit.ly/hc-easternAPA2025
- [Visiting Scholar Summer 2025](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/visiting-scholar-summer-2025/) - Dear Colleagues, Allow me to introduce myself: my name is Stefano Esengrini, and I am 55. I am a Research Fellow at the Department of Philosophy of the Catholic University of Milan and have been a member of the Heidegger Circle for some years. Now to the reason for my message: after having been a
- [Reminder: Heidegger and Classical Thought reading group, starts Oct 16th (GA 39)](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/reminder-heidegger-and-classical-thought-reading-group-starts-oct-16th-ga-39/) - Dear Members, We just wanted to send out a reminder that the Heidegger and Classical Thought reading group 2024/25 commences in just a few weeks' time when we’ll begin working through Heidegger’s lecture course, Hölderlins Hymnen: “Germanien” und “Der Rhein”. The text contains lectures delivered at the University of Freiburg during the Winter Semester of
- [Italian Translation](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/italian-translation/) - For our Italian and Italian-speaking members and friends, here is the link to the Italian translation of my Heidegger's Way of Being, elegantly translated by Prof. Francesco Cattaneo. There are also Spanish and Slovak translations of this book, with the Chinese translation forthcoming: https://www.academia.edu/101172416/Italian_Translation_of_HEIDEGGERS_WAY_OF_BEING https://www.orthotes.com/prodotto/capobianco-heidegger/?srsltid=AfmBOoo72AQNQEcYA6cgCBuFrJ6TKMDxKkeUO70VFnR-2yH-eWydSRgU Best regards, Richard C.
- [Call for papers: Hölderlin’s Hellenism (April 24th-25th 2025)](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/call-for-papers-holderlins-hellenism-april-24th-25th-2025/) - Dear Colleagues, Please find below a 'call for papers' for an online conference I'm running next Spring, which I hope will be of interest to Heidegger scholars... Hölderlin’s Hellenism An International Symposium to be held online on Thursday April 24th – Friday April 25th 2025 Confirmed Speakers Uta Degner (Paris Lodron University of
- [Mentoring Program Updates](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/mentoring-program-updates/) - (on behalf of Dana S. Belu, Facilitator of the Heidegger Circle Mentorship Program) The Heidegger Circle Mentoring Program is in search of both mentors and mentees for the 2024-25 cohort. This one-year program is designed to 1) support emerging scholars whose work involves Heidegger in some way and 2) foster cross-generational community within the Heidegger
- [Heidegger and Early Christian Literature](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/heidegger-and-early-christian-literature/) - One of the major works in recent New Testament scholarship is Prof Robyn Faith Walsh's The Origins of Early Christian Literature. The argument is basically that the New Testament gospels are not mainly the product of oral memory about Jesus from the gospel writers' community, but literary sources including the larger greco-roman intellectual world. What I
- [Call for Papers for the 2025 Annual Meeting of the Heidegger Circle](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/call-for-papers-for-the-2025-annual-meeting-of-the-heidegger-circle/) - (on behalf of Doug Peduti, 2025 Convener) The Call for Papers for the 2025 Meeting is now available and attached to this email. Doug Peduti, our host, has included information about the location, hotel, dates, and theme in the call attached. The theme of the meeting is Through Machination Toward Dwelling: Inceptive Thinking and the deadline for
- [Heidegger and Classical Thought reading group 2024/25: GA 39.](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/heidegger-and-classical-thought-reading-group-2024-25-ga-39/) - Dear Members, The Heidegger and Classical Thought research project will resume its weekly reading group in October 2024 when we’ll begin working through Martin Heidegger’s lecture course, Hölderlins Hymnen: “Germanien” und “Der Rhein”. The text contains lectures delivered at the University of Freiburg during the Winter Semester of 1934/35 and was published as Volume 39
- [Gatherings: Call for Papers](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/gatherings-call-for-papers-2/) - Sent on behalf of Dr. Kevin Aho: Dear Members & Friends of the Heidegger Circle, I wanted to let you know that I’ll soon be serving a three-year stint as editor of Gatherings: The Heidegger Circle Annual and welcome submissions on Heidegger and Heidegger-adjacent research. Although the journal has been known primarily for its specialized exegetical scholarship,
- [Heidegger bibliography by Sheehan (corrections invited)](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/heidegger-bibliography-by-sheehan-corrections-invited/) - Dear Heidegger Circle members, Thomas Sheehan has prepared the attached bibliography of the Gesamtausgabe and its English translations, which will be incorporated in his commentary on Division I of Being and Time, forthcoming in the New Heidegger Research series. He asks me to share it with the HC and invites any corrections. If you have
- [Upcoming translations...](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/upcoming-translations/) - Hello. I've been wondering for some time now if there's any forthcoming English translations of GA 97 - 98 or any other volumes after these up to GA 102. Is Richard Rojcewicz continuing his work on one or more of these for Indiana or is someone else taking up this challenge with a different publisher?
- [Adding to Philosophy Tree](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/adding-to-philosophy-tree/) - Hi Folks, I'm currently interested in gathering information on members' Doktorväter and adding it to the Academic Tree website. Please answer if interested! Best, MK
- [In Memoriam: Dr. Alfredo Lev Guzzoni](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/in-memoriam-dr-alfredo-lev-guzzoni/) - *Milan: 24.7.1931 - †Berlin: 26.3.2024 Dr. Alfredo Lev Guzzoni was author of the text many members of the Heidegger Circle will remember, "Summary of a Seminar on the Lecture 'Time and Being'," which was translated by and included as part of Joan Stambaugh's translation of Heidegger's Time and Being (1972):25-54. Author, in 1967 of the
- [Forthcoming: Heidegger and Classical Thought](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/forthcoming-heidegger-and-classical-thought/) - Aaron Turner, ed., Heidegger and Classical Thought (Suny Contemporary Continental Philosophy) https://www.amazon.com/dp/143849906X?tag=philp02-20&linkCode=osi&th=1&psc=1 https://sunypress.edu/Books/H/Heidegger-and-Classical-Thought
- [The Claim (Anspruch, Erfordernis, Bedürfnis, Bedingung) of Being](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/the-claim-anspruch-erfordernis-bedurfnis-bedingung-of-being/) - Good news: Dr. Ali Pirhyati, University of Tehran, my translator, said the collection of my essays that he has translated will be published next month in Tehran and on exhibit at the Iranian National Book Education week. I gave it, in English, the title THE CLAIM OF BEING: ON THE EMBODYING OF ETHICAL LIFE. That
- ["In Heidegger's Vineyard"](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/in-heideggers-vineyard/) - Hello, friends and colleagues, I am happy to announce that In Heidegger's Vineyard: Reflections and Mystical Vignettes has been published. Here is the link (and also available on all book websites): https://angelicopress.com/products/in-heideggers-vineyard-richard-capobianco And here is the Table of Contents: Preface: “You come too” Heraclitus and the immeasurable depth of the human soul Mysticism and our
- [Conference Announcement - "The Leap into the Inception..."](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/conference-announcement-the-leap-into-the-inception/) - Conference Announcement The Leap into the Inception: Das Seyn and Da-sein Unfolding the significance of Heidegger’s “Beyng-historical treatises” Wednesday, April 10th 2024 Dear Colleagues, Registration is now open for The Leap into the Inception: Das Seyn and Da-sein. Unfolding the significance of Heidegger’s “Beyng-historical treatises international conference, which will take place on
- [Translating Heidegger - Q&A with Gregory Fried & Richard Polt](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/translating-heidegger-qa-with-gregory-fried-richard-polt/) - Dear Members, The Heidegger and Classical Thought reading group yesterday hosted a Q&A session with Prof. Gregory Fried and Prof. Richard Polt to discuss their experiences of translating Heidegger's works. Throughout the 2023/24 academic year the reading group has been working through Heidegger's 1935 lecture series, Einführung in die Metaphysik (Introduction to Metaphysics), using both the
- [ESSAY IN SEARCH OF A COLLECTION OF ESSAYS IN WHICH TO PUBLISH IT](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/essay-in-search-of-a-collection-of-essays-in-which-to-publish-it/) - Greetings, Friends and Colleagues! I have an essay on Heidegger just finished and would like to see it published in a good collection of essays. Are you working on editing such a volume? Or considering preparing one? If interested, I will provide the title and abstract so that we can engage in further discussion.. David
- [Nominations for HC Executive Committee Positions](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/nominations-for-hc-executive-committee-positions/) - Dear Members of the Heidegger Circle: (and apologies for multiple emails if you receive them) I hope this finds you well. I am writing to solicit suggestions for nominations to six positions of the ten positions on the Executive Committee. According to the Bylaws of the Circle, the Executive Committee serves as the nominating committee
- [New Book, Table of Contents](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/new-book-table-of-contents/) - Hello, all; here is the Table of Contents of my forthcoming book (2024): In Heidegger's Vineyard: Reflections and Mystical Vignettes. More publishing information to follow: In Heidegger’s Vineyard: Reflections and Mystical Vignettes Richard Capobianco Table of Contents Preface: “You come too” Heraclitus and the immeasurable depth of the human soul Mysticism and our “nothing-but” age
- [Crisis and Twilight in Heidegger's Nietzsche's Word 'God is Dead'](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/crisis-and-twilight-in-heideggers-nietzsches-word-god-is-dead/) - in Holger Zaborowski's new book collection Martin Heidegger: Holzwege (Klassiker Auslegen #77) surprisingly reasonable in price -- which makes the book worth acquiring for the other contributions I am not at liberty to share: https://mitpressbookstore.mit.edu/book/9783110774580
- ["Transcendence in Heidegger's Early Thought: Towards Being as Event"](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/transcendence-in-heideggers-early-thought-towards-being-as-event/) - Dear friends, My book Transcendence in Heidegger's Early Thought: Towards Being as Event has just been published by Palgrave Macmillan. You can find it here (there is institutional access as well): https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-41291-2 You can also read the introduction here: https://www.academia.edu/108631714/Introduction_for_the_book_Transcendence_in_Heideggers_Early_Thought_Toward_Being_as_Event_ Holger Zaborowski's foreword can be found here: https://www.academia.edu/108631313/Holger_Zaborowskis_foreword_for_the_book_Transcendence_in_Heideggers_Early_Thought_Toward_Being_as_Event_ This book demonstrates how Heidegger's departure from ontotheology
- [A plea for help!](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/a-plea-for-help/) - Does anyone have a PDF or even access to a physical copy of the following journal article that they might be willing to let me have sight of, please? Christopher S. Nwodo, “Friedländer versus Heidegger: A-letheia Controversy”. Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology 10 (1979): pp. 84–93. Bizarrely it is omitted from the Taylor
- [New Book Forthcoming 2024](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/new-book-forthcoming-2024/) - My best wishes to everyone for the upcoming holiday season. I'm also happy to announce a new book forthcoming: IN HEIDEGGER'S VINEYARD: REFLECTIONS AND MYSTICAL VIGNETTES Details to follow. Regards, Richard C.
- [Nietzsche and Heidegger](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/nietzsche-and-heidegger/) - I noticed the upcoming talk on Nietzsche and Heidegger (which I won't be attending), and am wondering if others have any insights into this interesting topic? Heidegger sums up his reading with Will to Power as essentia, and Eternal Return as existentia. Heidegger quotes Nietzsche that the highest form of Will to Power is stamping
- [Nov 9 Seasonal Gathering: Nietzsche & Heidegger](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/nov-9-seasonal-gathering-nietzsche-heidegger/) - Members and Friends of the Heidegger Circle, We are pleased to announce that the fifth Seasonal Gathering will be on Thursday, November 9 at 12:00PM EST on Zoom. Our topic will be Nietzsche and Heidegger, and our invited speakers will be Dr. Babette Babich and Dr. Lawrence Hatab. Babette Babich is Professor of Philosophy at
- [Heidegger Seminar in India](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/heidegger-seminar-in-india/) - Dear all, Greetings from India where I will participate in a two-week seminar (Nov 15-30) on the philosophy of Heidegger before his Being and Time. The seminar will be at the Loyola College at Trivandrum, the capital of the southern Indian state of Kerela. It is organized by Dr. V.C. Thomas, founder of the Centre
- [The Politics of Attention and the Promise of Mindfulness ](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/the-politics-of-attention-and-the-promise-of-mindfulness-2/) - Dear Friends: My book The Politics of Attention and the Promise of Mindfulness has just been published as part of the New Heidegger Research series. Please see the attached preview, with endorsements on page 4. As usual, R&L offers a 30% discount with a code, RLFANDF30 at The Politics of Attention and the Promise of Mindfulness
- [Heidegger at SPEP 2023 in Toronto](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/heidegger-at-spep-2023-in-toronto/) - All, Here is a list of Heidegger sessions at SPEP 2023 in Toronto: Heidegger at SPEP 2023. The Heidegger Circle is hosting a session as well: Thursday 9:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m., Richmond, 3rd floor Moderator: Matthew Krüger-Ross, West Chester University of Pennsylvania Speaking of Silence in Heidegger Wanda Torres Gregory, Simmons University Commentator: Scott
- [Call For Papers: Heidegger's Philosophical Non-Mysticism](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/call-for-papers-heideggers-philosophical-non-mysticism/) - Despite John Caputo's well-known exposition of the "mystical element" in Heidegger's thought, Heidegger himself adamantly rejected the concept of mysticism. He viewed it as little more than an ambiguous contrast to Western rationalism, thus aligning it with the very philosophy it purportedly sought to counter rather than providing a thoughtful alternative. Nevertheless, Heidegger's philosophy is
- [Wilhelm Dilthey and Historical Consciousness online conference (Nov 2-3)](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/wilhelm-dilthey-and-historical-consciousness-online-conference-nov-2-3/) - Dear Members, I'm running a conference on Wilhelm Dilthey and Historical Consciousness on November 2nd-3rd which may be of interest to some of you. The conference is entirely on Zoom. Please find the full programme below. If you'd like to register for the conference please get in touch with me at aaron.turner@rhul.ac.uk. The conference is
- [ESSAY IN SEARCH OF A BOOK OF ESSAYS IN WHICH TO PUBLISH IT](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/essay-in-search-of-a-book-of-essays-in-which-to-publish-it/) - Dear colleagues, I have a rather long essay on Heidegger dealing with the Seinsverständnis and its pre-ontological beginnings. So I am hoping that someone might want to include it in their publication of a collection of essays on Heidegger by different scholars. Please let me know if you are preparing such a collection—or know of
- [The Politics of Attention and the Promise of Mindfulness](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/the-politics-of-attention-and-the-promise-of-mindfulness/) - Dear Colleagues: Please find attached a preview of "The Politics of Attention and the Promise of Mindfulness," which is to be released in mid-October as part of the New Heidegger Research series. The preview consists of the preface and introduction, plus a list of endorsements on page 4 and a discount flyer on the last
- [Call for Papers: The Leap into the Inception conference (Apr 10th 2024)](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/call-for-papers-the-leap-into-the-inception-conference-apr-10th-2024/) - (Posting on behalf of Lasha Kharazi) Call for Papers The Leap into the Inception: Das Seyn and Da-sein Unfolding the significance of Heidegger’s “Beyng-historical treatises” Online Conference Wednesday April 10th 2024 Keynote Speakers Laurence Hemming (University of Lancaster) Richard Polt (Xavier University) Peter Trawny (University of Wuppertal) Daniela Vallega-Neu (University of Oregon) Friedrich-Wilhelm von
- [William Richardson, SJ](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/william-richardson-sj/) - Posted on behalf of Dr. Alfred Denker: The European Centre for Heidegger Studies - ECHS will host a round table on William J. Richardson, S.J.'s contribution to Heidegger scholarship, via zoom, on 25 August at 19.00, 7 PM CET [5 PM GMT, 1 PM EST, etc.] There is a zoom link here: https://eur-nl.zoom.us/j/92235078452
- [West-Coast Heidegger Workshop](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/west-coast-heidegger-workshop/) - Announcing the inaugural meeting of the West-Coast Heidegger Workshop, in January 2024. Please see the attached Call for Papers for details. The Workshop will oscillate between Northern and Southern Ca. Hosted by California State University, Stanislaus in 2024 and Loyola Marymount University in 2025. Hope to see you there!
- [New in Paperback](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/new-in-paperback/) - New in paperback Heidegger's Being: The Shimmering Unfolding, (University of Toronto Press). All the best, Richard C.
- [Critical Studies on Heidegger](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/critical-studies-on-heidegger/) - I would like to call attention to my latest book, Critical Studies on Heidegger: The Emerging Body of Understanding (SUNY Press, 2023), now in paperback. It's really the third volume of my work on Heidegger, following the publication of two volumes on Heidegger's Phenomenology of Perception (Rowman & Littlefield). I welcome comments, questions, reviews. David
- [a question](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/a-question-2/) - Good morning! In this note I am not concerned with the rewriting of section 65 of Being and Time. However, I am responding to some things written in Thomas Sheehan's "Rewriting Heidegger" as it most recently appeared in announcements. If I am not mistaken (and I may be) Heidegger develops the phenomenological correlation as das Ereignis,
- [Sheehan, "Rewriting Heidegger"](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/sheehan-rewriting-heidegger/) - On Tom Sheehan's request, I'm posting the published version of his "Rewriting Heidegger," which he presented at this year's conference.
- [Heidegger & fiction...](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/heidegger-fiction/) - Greetings colleagues: I was surprised to learn, when I began Richard Ford's current novel Be Mine--the 4th work featuring "Frank Bascombe"--the first-person narrator carries about a "Pocket Heidegger" & quotes or comments often on Heidegger, esp. the reflections in SuZ on death. Quite unexpected...& relevant, as the 74yo Bascombe is dealing with the early death of
- [July 19 HC Seasonal Gathering Recording](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/july-19-hc-seasonal-gathering-recording/) - Greetings! The Heidegger Circle Seasonal Gathering held earlier today on Zoom was recorded. The recording is linked here. Many thanks to Dr. Babette Babich and Dr. Ian Alexander Moore for their talks and to all who attended the lively discussion afterwards!
- [Heidegger and Classical Thought reading group 2023/24](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/heidegger-and-classical-thought-reading-group-2023-24/) - Dear Heidegger Circle Members, The Heidegger and Classical Thought research project will resume its weekly reading group in October 2023, studying Martin Heidegger’s lecture course, Einführung in die Metaphysik (Introduction to Metaphysics) for this academic year. This is one of the first places where Heidegger brings Heraclitus and Parmenides into a direct relation with each other, and where a provisional
- [Lambeth's new book: Heidegger's Interpretation of Kant](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/lambeths-new-book-heideggers-interpretation-of-kant/) - Morganna Lambeth of Purdue University has recently published Heidegger's Interpretation of Kant: The Violence and the Charity (June 2023) with Cambridge University Press. Book description Heidegger has a reputation for reading himself into the philosophers he interprets, and his interpretation of Kant has therefore had little uptake in anglophone Kant scholarship. In this book, Morganna Lambeth
- [Wed July 19 - Upcoming HC Seasonal Gathering](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/wed-july-19-upcoming-hc-seasonal-gathering/) - Dear Friends & Members of the Heidegger Circle: We are pleased to announce our upcoming summer seasonal gathering with the theme of Reiner Schürmann on Martin Heidegger. The gathering will be on Wednesday, July 19 from 12:00-1:30PM EST on Zoom. Zoom link: https://zoom.us/j/9052560171?pwd=cXQ3UWo2YkE2dnJsU1o5cHFWdnUyZz09 Our invited speakers are Babette Babich, Ph.D. at Fordham University, who will speak
- [CFP Second Annual Ted Kisiel Junior Scholar Award @ Eastern APA](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/cfp-second-annual-ted-kisiel-junior-scholar-award-eastern-apa/) - The Heidegger Circle of North America welcomes submissions on any topic in Heidegger scholarship from postgraduate and early career researchers for its annual Satellite Session at the Eastern APA. The second annual Ted Kisiel Junior Scholar Award will go to the best submission, and up to two honorable mentions may also be featured on the
- ["Heidegger's Being" Softcover Edition Published](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/heideggers-being-softcover-edition-published/) - Hello, all, the softcover edition of Heidegger's Being: The Shimmering Unfolding is now available. I attach the front and back covers. Best regards, Richard C.
- [Tom Sheehan's paper from the Boston HC Meeting (revised)](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/tom-sheehans-paper-from-the-boston-hc-meeting-revised/) - All, See the attached below - a revised version of Tom Sheehan's paper from the Boston Meeting a few weeks ago.
- [book discount](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/book-discount/) - Hi all: Attached is a discount flyer for my latest book. I'm happy to say that it has been selected for a SPEP book session at the upcoming meeting.
- [Italian Translation, Etc.](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/italian-translation-etc/) - I’m delighted to report that the Italian translation of my Heidegger’s Way of Being (La Via dell’Essere di Heidegger) will be published in May by the Italian academic publisher Orthotes Editrice. The translation and supplemental essay is by Prof. Francesco Cattaneo of the University of Bologna. I am grateful that my work has also been
- [Heidegger's "Phänomenologie und Theologie" in GA 9 Wegmarken](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/heideggers-phanomenologie-und-theologie-in-ga-9-wegmarken/) - Hi everyone, Hope this finds you well. If anyone has PDF access to the essay "Phänomenologie und Theologie" in German with its appendix—I think included in the GA 9 edition of Wegmarken—I'd appreciate if you'd be so kind as to send me a copy. I only have the 1967 Wegmarken, which doesn't include the essay.
- [Keynes on the Stockbroker's Anticipatory Attitude in Degrees](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/keynes-on-the-stockbrokers-anticipatory-attitude-in-degrees/) - While reading a review of some books on Keynes in The New York Review of Books (Dec 22, 2022 issue), I was struck by an insight of Keynes into the structure of anticipation stockbrokers must engage in, tacitly or intentionally, to make a profit. I'll first share the quote by Keynes within a quote by
- [On the Essence of Language and the Question of Art](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/on-the-essence-of-language-and-the-question-of-art/) - Adam Knowles' translation of this volume (GA 74) has been published by Polity. I'm attaching an updated version of my Heidegger bibliography that includes it. Richard
- [Heidegger Circle at 2023 APA Eastern in Montreal](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/heidegger-circle-at-2023-apa-eastern-in-montreal/) - Greetings and happy new year! (NOTE: This message/post has been amended 1/2/23 23:42. And, apologies for duplicates - this message will also come via email in a separate message.) The Heidegger Circle will be hosting a session this Friday, January 6 at the 2023 APA Eastern Meeting in Montreal, Quebec. The information about the satellite
- [Denken](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/denken/) - Dear all, I was wondering if anyone could point me to when Heidegger first says that his project is Denken, not a different philosophy. I was reading the short correspondence between Heidegger and Marcuse from 1947-48, in which Marcuse says “Common sense (also among intellectuals), which bears witness to such resistance, refuses to view you
- [Politics of Attention](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/politics-of-attention/) - Hello All: During our last seasonal gathering I discussed some ideas from my book in progress entitled “The Politics of Attention and the Promise of Mindfulness,” and interest was expressed in seeing some of it prior to submission for the New Heidegger Research Series. For this purpose I have attached a draft of Chapter 7,
- [North Texas Philosophical Association CFP](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/north-texas-philosophical-association-cfp/) - Greetings friends and members of the North Texas Philosophical Association: I hope this message finds you well. The North Texas Philosophical Association is planning to hold our first post-Covid meeting in the Spring of 2023, March 31-April 1 on the campus of the University of Texas at Dallas. I am writing to announce this call
- [Upcoming lecture: McCarthy Era and Continental philosophy by John McCumber](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/upcoming-lecture-mccarthy-era-and-continental-philosophy-by-john-mccumber/) - John McCumber will be giving a lecture on Monday Dec. 12, 2 p.m. EST on the McCarthy Era and Continental philosophy. More information at: https://philosophyintimesofcrisis.com/
- [Second Seasonal Gathering on Wednesday, November 9th](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/second-seasonal-gathering-on-wednesday-november-9th/) - Dear Members of the Heidegger Circle: I am happy to announce that we will host our second Seasonal Gathering on Wednesday, November 9th from: 9:30 to 11:00 Pacific Time 11:30 to 1:00 Central time 12:30 to 2:00 Eastern Standard Time and 5:30 to 7 London time Our topic will be Heidegger and Hegel, and
- [Reminder -- Drew Hyland Conference, Friday, Oct. 28th](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/reminder-drew-hyland-conference-friday-oct-28th/) - All: I hope you are doing well. I am writing to remind you that next Friday, October 28th, Trinity College will be hosting a conference on the work of Drew Hyland. Hyland’s work in ancient and continental philosophy has had a significant impact on the contemporary philosophical scene, and for more than forty years he
- [Next Seasonal Gathering - Heidegger & Hegel with John McCumber Nov 9!](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/next-seasonal-gathering-heidegger-hegel-with-john-mccumber-nov-9/) - We are happy to announce the next seasonal gathering of the Heidegger Circle with a focus on Heidegger & Hegel. John McCumber will give a brief presentation to get the discussion going. Please mark your calendars and we look forward to seeing everyone in a few weeks! When: Wed, Nov 9, 12:00-1:30PM EST Where: Zoom!
- [Important New Heidegger Reference Book](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/important-new-heidegger-reference-book/) - Bibliography of English Translations of the Writings of Martin Heidegger (1949-2022) by Miles Groth This is a comprehensive and indispensable book for all serious anglophone students of Heidegger. Based upon but not limited to the Gesamtausgabe, its 261 entries provide bibliographic details of Heidegger's works in over 400 English versions. But Groth has put together more
- [Two Recently Published Books](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/two-recently-published-books/) - Friends, two recently published books that have similar trajectories: Heidegger's Being: The Shimmering Unfolding (University of Toronto Press, 2022). See: https://utorontopress.com/9781487546441/heidegger-and-x2019s-being/ The collection of essays, Heidegger and the Holy (Rowman & Littlefield, 2022). See: https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781538162521/Heidegger-and-the-Holy Best regards, Richard C.
- [Podcast interview](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/podcast-interview/) - HC members might be interested in my recent interview on Converging Dialogues, a podcast hosted by psychotherapist Xavier Bonilla. It's a wide-ranging discussion of Heidegger. https://convergingdialogues.podbean.com/e/167-being-and-worldhood-the-philosophy-of-martin-heidegger-adialogue-with-richard-polt/
- [Diagramming Dasein](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/diagramming-dasein/) - I teach Heidegger to mostly non-philosophy majors in one of my GE undergraduate courses at CSULA. We spend five or six sessions covering the basics of Being and Time. While lecturing I show some version of the attached presentation I call "Diagramming Dasein." For those of you who can look past the obvious issues with
- [Drew Hyland Archive / Conference](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/drew-hyland-archive-conference/) - All: I hope you are doing well. Given the importance of Drew Hyland's work for Heidegger studies, and the fact that Katherine Davies is among those presenting, I am posting the following information -- I hope it is of interest to you, and that you will join us! Drew Hyland Archive / Conference Drew Hyland
- [Drouillard, Davis, and Elkayam in Journal of Speculative Philosophy 36(2)](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/drouillard-davis-and-elkayam-in-journal-of-speculative-philosophy-362/) - Colleagues: The most recent edition of the Journal of Speculative Philosophy includes contributions from three of our colleagues. Wanted to alert everyone to these articles, and including the abstracts below. Queering Gestell: Thinking Outside Butler's Frames and Inside Belu's Reproductive Enframing Jill Drouillard ABSTRACT This article takes Judith Butler's epistemological problem of "framing" alongside Dana
- [CFP: Central APA Satellite](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/cfp-central-apa-satellite/) - Greetings Members of the Heidegger Circle! The Heidegger Circle of North America welcomes submissions on any topic in Heidegger scholarship for its annual Satellite Session at the Central APA (Denver, February 2023). This is an open call, so papers will be assessed irrespective of the author’s rank. Please see the CFP Flier attached as well. Please
- [Heidegger and Classical Thought - Reading Group (Oct 2022-May 2023)](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/heidegger-and-classical-thought-reading-group-oct-2022-may-2023/) - Dear Heidegger Circle Members, The Heidegger and Classical Thought Research Project, supported by the Knapp Foundation and in conjunction with The Humanities & Arts Research Institute at Royal Holloway, University of London, is proposing to host a weekly reading group to study Martin Heidegger’s lecture courses on Heraclitus delivered in 1943 and 1944 at the
- [Heidegger Circle Seasonal Gathering Invitation - Wed, Aug 10](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/heidegger-circle-seasonal-gathering-invitation-wed-aug-10/) - [[Reminder/repost]] Dear Heidegger Circle Members: I hope you are having a wonderful summer and staying cool. It has been some time since we have had a chance to get together, share our company, and chat about Heidegger. I am inviting you to join our next “Seasonal Gathering” (formally called “Heidegger Happy Hours”). These Gatherings will be
- [Friedrich-Wilhelm von Herrmann, 1934-2022](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/friedrich-wilhelm-von-herrmann-1932-2022/) - I learned today that Friedrich-Wilhelm von Herrmann—Heidegger's final assistant, Editor-in-Chief of the Gesamtausgabe, and author of many studies of Heidegger's work, passed away on August 2. A statement by his widow, Dr. Veronika von Herrmann, is attached.
- [Thinking Great Thoughts](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/thinking-great-thoughts/) - Hello everyone, I'm sure this is easy to answer, but I can't find the original source. Where did Heidegger write, 'He who thinks great thoughts often makes great errors'? Thanks in advance Mo Mandic
- [Call for Mentors: Heidegger Circle Mentorship Program](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/call-for-mentors-heidegger-circle-mentorship-program/) - Dear Heidegger Circle Members, This year, the Heidegger Circle Mentoring Program has received a record number of applications from emerging scholars seeking guidance from mentors related to preparing for and navigating the academic job market. We are seeking approximately ten more volunteer mentors for the ‘22-‘23 cycle. Our program offers two tracks for mentorship, each
- [Contacting Andrew Haas](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/contacting-andrew-haas/) - Is anyone in the forum in contact with Andrew Haas? Since his courageous resignation from The Higher School of Economics in February he is no longer listed on their website, and I have been unable to find other contact details. I am keen to be in touch over a possible project, and would be grateful
- [New Translation of Duns Scotus's Doctrine of Categories and Meaning](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/new-translation-of-duns-scotuss-doctrine-of-categories-and-meaning/) - (Thanks to Miles Groth for first alerting me to this new translation.) Indiana University Press has just released Joydeep Bagchee and Jeffrey D. Gower's new translation of Duns Scotus's Doctrine of Categories and Meaning, Heidegger's postdoctoral thesis from 1915. Here is the IUP page: https://iupress.org/9780253062642/duns-scotuss-doctrine-of-categories-and-meaning/ And the blurb from the website: Duns Scotus's Doctrine of
- [The forum is now open](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/the-forum-is-now-open/) - The Heidegger Circle is very happy to announce the return of the Heidegger Circle forum. You are receiving this email notification from the Announcements Forum, which is turned on by default. If you would like to additionally receive notifications from the Discussion Forum and/or the Books and Articles Forum, then you are invited to adjust
- ["Authentic" vs productive readings of Heidegger](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/authentic-vs-productive-readings-of-heidegger/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan Dear Trish,Thanks very much for this formulation of the “authentic” vs. productive readings of Heidegger. I don’t think this is an arrogant distinction, as you put it, but itself a productive one. One area where I think a strong critique of Heidegger is necessary is his position on technology: he
- ["BEING" - 2: RESENDING](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/being-2-resending/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan Ouch. The last post I sent out seems to have had formatting problems. Here it is in a more user-friendly format. --TomDear Eric, Just some thoughts on your post:Re: "[I] would give pause at 'human' concern.'" It would seem that in the world-analysis the final Woraufhin of the references and suitabilities
- ["BENDING BACK"](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/bending-back-2/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan Dear Richards H. and C. I'm on vacation now and away from my books for a couple of weeks. I tend to agree with Richard P. that Heidegger simply does not tell us what "bending back" means. (Or at least I have no idea what it means.) Best, --Tom -----
- ["Amo: volo ut sis"](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/amo-volo-ut-sis/) - I thought it would be fun to try translating Heidegger's poem into verse. The result is attached, along with the original German again. Richard Attachments-430/Amo.jpgAttachments-430/Amo translation.pdf
- ["BEING ITSELF": ONLY A FORMAL INDICATION](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/being-itself-only-a-formal-indication/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan Dear Richard, On 25 April you wrote to Ellis Dye: "Being itself, the overall import of what is, has a heritage and a destiny." I would like to suggest that "being itself" is only a formal indication. 1."Das Sein selbst" is not a phenomenon at all, much less the Ur-ph
- ["A Fight for the Right to Read Heidegger"](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/a-fight-for-the-right-to-read-heidegger/) - http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/07/20/a-fight-for-the-right-to-read-heidegger/ Attachments-431/A Fight for the Right to Read Heidegger - NYTimes.com.pdf
- ["Amazing grace"?!](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/amazing-grace/) - Dear Forum, I was thankful one morning and waiting allowed me to do what I do well enough. What was this allowing? Andrew Price Sent from Windows Mail
- ["Our Dinner with Bill"](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/our-dinner-with-bill/) - Some very interesting recent conversations with Bill Richardson: http://at.bc.edu/dinnerwithbill
- ["Das Ereignis" = "Das Sein selbst"?](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/das-ereignis-das-sein-selbst/) - Written By: eric d. meyer Dear Pr. Capobianco & All Heideggerians: I find I whole-heartedly agree with your (Pr. Capobianco's) postings (...which, roughly, I take as arguing that "being" is [structurally!] prior to "the 'meaning' of being"...) But I find one sticking-point: I can't quite agree with a simple equation (copula?) between "das Ereignis"
- ["OVERCOMING" THE ONTOLOGICAL DIFFERENCE](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/overcoming-the-ontological-difference-2/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan Dear friends,Can anyone help with texts in which Heidegger says one must “overcome” or get beyond the ontological difference?Many thanks. --Tom
- ["TAKING OVER EREIGNIS"](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/taking-over-ereignis/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan Dear Richard, The texts you cite make sense within the framework that I propose. We just have to see that they refer to the existentiel-personal dimension of our human being and do not cancel out a structural, ereignishaft relation to Being. These are some of the arguments I would make:
- ["Die im Ereignis Kehre"](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/die-im-ereignis-kehre/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan Dear friends,I can’t find the phrase “Die im Ereignis [wesende] Kehre” or “die Kehre im Ereignis” anywhere except in Beitr ge. (In fact, surprisingly, the word “Kehre” does not show up in GA 66 at all.) Is this phrase confined to the years 1936-38 and specifically to GA 65? Or
- ["HAPPENING" -- IMMER SCHON?](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/happening-immer-schon/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan Dear Richard,Yes, but we need to nail down the nature of this "happening." Does it have a before and an after, such that sometimes Dasein is being thrown and other times not? On the contrary, it would seem to be always already operative:"Sind wir, die Menschen, nicht immer schon in
- ["PHENOMENOLOGICAL ONTOLOGY"?](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/phenomenological-ontology/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan Dear friends,Does anyone know where (or if) Heidegger ever called his word “phenomenological ontology”? Thanks very much. --Tom
- ["PARAPHRASTIC PARAPHRASE" ???](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/paraphrastic-paraphrase/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan WOOPS: On second thought, "paraphrastic paraphrase" does seem like a bit of overkill. . . . Tom On Sep 12, 2013, at 2:34 PM, Thomas Sheehan wrote: Dear Richard, Or perhaps (not as a translation so much as a paraphrastic paraphrase): "being-the-open; being-open; openness." Perhaps something like that is
- ["H. Arendt"](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/h-arendt/) - Saw M. von Trotta's "Hannah Arendt" last weekend w/ Hanna Sukowa as H. A. Riveting biopic on H. A. & her circle, emph. th Eichmann trial, book, & controversy. Heidegger is freq. mentioned & mostly disparaged or worse. M. H. (played by Hans Pohl) appears in Arendt's memory-flashbacks. Anyone else seen it? Any evidence for
- ["Dasein is not the whole of the clearing."](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/dasein-is-not-the-whole-of-the-clearing/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan Dear friends, On 12 December 2013 Richard Capobianco wrote the following to the Heidegger list: “Dasein is the clearing--BUT Dasein is not the whole of the clearing.” He has reiterated that position juxta modum in a post sent over these past days. It prompts a question or two: 1.Is Dasein
- ["Paper not dead"](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/paper-not-dead/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan Dear friends, At Richard's suggestion: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KiojmTrZYqg Tom -- Thomas Sheehan Stanford University Stanford, CA 94305-2165 650 723-3322http://religiousstudies.stanford.edu/people/tom-sheehan/
- ["Philosophy Study" scam alert](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/philosophy-study-scam-alert/) - Dear colleagues, Please be aware of the scam that Lee Braver explains below. There seems to be a proliferation of "academic journals" that try to profit from the publish-or-perish system, at scholars' expense. More information is here: http://scholarlyoa.com/2012/02/29/david-publishing-flipping-its-model/ http://leiterreports.typepad.com/blog/2013/06/on-david-publishing-once-again.html Richard *** On Aug 28, 2014, at 9:44 AM, Braver, Lee wrote: I recently got an
- ["Heidegger's Way of Being" is Published](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/heideggers-way-of-being-is-published/) - Good morning, all, Just a note to mention that "Heidegger's Way of Being" has been published by the University of Toronto Press. This meditation on Being addresses die Sache selbst that we have discussed many times on the Forum, and I look forward to further conversation and discussion. Here's the publisher's description: In Heidegger's Way of
- ["This truthing of physis itself"/Being is Aletheia in the First Place](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/this-truthing-of-physis-itself-being-is-aletheia-in-the-first-place/) - One other key observation by Heidegger as he glosses the text of Introduction to Metaphysics in GA 73.1: "To physis belongs unconcealedness" (135) "Being is the truth as such" (135; his italics) We today can scarcely comprehend that the ancient Greeks experienced "this truthing of physis itself" (dieses aletheuein der physis selbst) (135). And this is
- ["TRUTH" and DASEIN](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/truth-and-dasein/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan Dear friends, Three questions that may be worth discussing. Best regards, Tom 1. Should we ever call by the word "truth"? 1.1 "To translate this word [ ] as "truth" . . . is to cover up the meaning of what, for the Greeks, constituted the "self-evident" pre-philosophical basis for
- ["Beyn"?](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/beyn/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan Dear Pete, Thanks so much for all the work you have done on this. It's a wonderful site. May I make only one suggestion at this point, concerning the name of the site? I think the word "beyn" is a barbarism that Heidegger studies could well do without. I realize
- ["Being and Time," space-time . . .](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/being-and-time-space-time/) - Written By: ERIC J SANDBERG Perhaps a clarification first. By Heidegger's 'ixes' is meant, prefix, infix, suffix, as in his mining the language privative 'a' in 'aletheia,' or his avoidance of the equivalents of '-icity' or '-ality,' so that when he does . . . this post "B&T" . . . alarms go of,
- ["Time and Being," time-space,' almost](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/time-and-being-time-space-almost/) - Written By: ERIC J SANDBERG Linger a bit, perhaps, to while away the 'while' with Heidegger, if only for a 'taste' of method. The first question, here, What authorizes us to speak of time and Being together? The question proves moot. The concepts have been linked historically (not simply historiographically) from the very beginning.
- ["Time and Being," time/Being' Being/time](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/time-and-being-time-being-being-time/) - Written By: ERIC J SANDBERG Tomorrow's submission . . . Intellectual remote in hand, zap 'forward' to the original question of how it was Da-'sein' stood after the 'turn?' This, as re-marked after the "Beitrage?" An explosion of modalities in the "Beitrage" showed themselves, all of which displaced the Dasein of "Being and Time"
- ["Heidegger's way of Being"](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/heideggers-way-of-being/) - Written By: ERIC J SANDBERG Friends: A question arises out of the analysis of Richard C's book in conjunction with my own (sous rature) earlier thoughts about time and being that were shared with the circle. Might Heidegger have 'deliberately' worked towards an Aristotelian 'aporia' concerning 'time' in "T&B?" (See Richard's text on both
- ["She sang beyond the genius of the sea."](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/she-sang-beyond-the-genius-of-the-sea/) - Dear Forum Members, The sixth and final chapter of Richard's new book directs our attention to a lectures series that Heidegger gave in 1944 called "Heraclitus' Teaching on/from Logos" (GA55 - not yet translated). Richard begins by assuring us that in these lectures "...Heidegger's concern is first and foremost with bringing into view and affirming
- ["Emmanuel Faye: The Introduction of Fraud Into Philosophy?"](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/emmanuel-faye-the-introduction-of-fraud-into-philosophy-2/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan Dear friends, Attached is a pdf of the article "Emmanuel Faye: The Introduction of Fraud Into Philosophy?" just published in Philosophy Today. Best regards, Tom Attachments-429/08 2015 FAYE AND FRAUD - PUBLISHED.pdf
- ["Privacing"](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/privacing/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan Dear Richard, Brilliant! -- not least for the fact that we can now add a new verb to the Heidegger lexicon: privatizieren: transitive, Eng. "to conceal, hide, make something withdraw," z.B. "Das Enteignis hat immer schon alles privatiziert: das Seyn / Sein / Lichtung / aletheia / physis / kosmos
- ["Heidegger and Politixs" by Alexander Duff](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/heidegger-and-politixs-by-alexander-duff/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan Dear friends, Does anyone have an opinion about /response to Alexander S. Duff's Heidegger and Politics: The Ontology of Radical Discontent (Cambridge, 2015)? I've just finished it, and I suspect it will be a go-to text for many critics of Heidegger's politics in general (although it doesn't have a lot
- ["Philosophy as a Service Industry"](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/philosophy-as-a-service-industry/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan Dear friends, Many of you already know this article, but I ran across it only recently and have found it very interesting. Its almost twenty yeards old but still has a strong message. The title may be off-putting (the authors eventually correct it to read: "Philosophy in Service of the
- ["I" and "mineness"](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/i-and-mineness/) - Written By: Arkadi Choufrine Dear all-- Here and there Hd claims that "mineness" does not necessarily imply a reference to a pre-existent "I" (e.g., GA63 29, cited below); however, I failed to find an explicit argument on his part to this effect. Playing a devil's advocate, one might try to falsify this claim by
- ["Ponderings" review](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/ponderings-review/) - My review of Ponderings II-VI is now online at NDPR: http://ndpr.nd.edu/news/67567-ponderings-ii-vi-black-notebooks-1931-1938/ Richard
- ["Heidegger's Lehrjahre"](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/heideggers-lehrjahre/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan Dear friends, P.S. (1) The pdf of Becoming Heidegger is "searchable." (2) One of the texts mentioned in it is "Heidegger's Lehrjahre," a pdf of which is attached. Tom Attachments-427/HEIDEGGER'S LEHRJAHRE (Sheehan, 1988).pdf
- ["Sense, Meaning, and Hermeneutics: From Aristotle to Heidegger"](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/sense-meaning-and-hermeneutics-from-aristotle-to-heidegger/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan Dear friends, I attach an article that recently appeared in The Blackwell Companion to Hermeneutics, ed. Nial Keane and Chris Lawn, Wiley-Blackwell, 2016. I welcome any critiques or suggestions. Tom Attachments-425/SENSE, MEANING, AND HERMENEUTICS From Aristotle to Heidegger.pdf
- ["The oblivion of the oblivion"](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/the-oblivion-of-the-oblivion/) - Does anyone know, off the top of their heads, where the phrase, "the oblivion of the oblivion" appears in Heidegger? I was thinking Basic Questions of Philosophy (GA 45) but I can't find it. Thanks David Leech
- ["The oblivion of the oblivion": Does it refer to "our technological understanding of being"?](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/the-oblivion-of-the-oblivion-does-it-refer-to-our-technological-understanding-of-being/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan Dear David, "Does it refer to "our technological understanding of being"?" Not necessarily, and not primarily.So : We have to distingish between two registers of Verbergung/Verborgentheit: (1) Structurally/ontologically/existentiially both these words refer to the intrinsic hiddenness of the clearing, not to something that we can do or bring about. (2)
- ["Transformation/s of Phenomenology"](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/transformation-s-of-phenomenology/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan Dear friends, Attached is an article that some of you may already know. I found it informative (as is the entire book), in part because of its argument that a "phenomenon," in Heidegger as well as in many contemporary French phenomenologists, is "une formation de sens," and that such Sinngebilde
- ["GESTELL PANEL" at the coming Heidegger Circle meeting](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/gestell-panel-at-the-coming-heidegger-circle-meeting/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan Dear friends, For the coming Heidegger Circle Julia Ireland has scheduled a Friday morning discussion (11 to noon) on "das Ge-stell," its meaning and its source. Three panelists -- Dana Belu, Trice Glazebrook, and Richard Polt -- will make short statements and then open the floor up for discussion, following
- ["Being" and "alētheia" in the Jurassic Period? A response to That Pete and Greg Fried](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/being-and-aletheia-in-the-jurassic-period-a-response-to-that-pete-and-greg-fried/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan Thomas Sheehan has shared a OneDrive for Business file with you. To view it, click the link below. 05 May 26 - A response to That Pete and Greg Friend(1).docx For those who are interested, attached is an attempt to respond to the recent mails of Pete and Greg (with
- ["The Question of Heidegger and Technology: A Critical Review of the Literature" (1987)](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/the-question-of-heidegger-and-technology-a-critical-review-of-the-literature-1987/) - Written By: ptheophanidis Dear colleagues, I've assembled a complete PDF of this resource from the various file available online at the online archives of Philosophy Today. I thought it might be of interest for some of you. The complete reference is "The Question of Heidegger and Technology: A Critical Review of the Literature." by
- ["Give us gods, oh give us them!"](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/give-us-gods-oh-give-us-them/) - Dear Forum, Don't you have to be mad to buy into Heidegger's Geschichte and into his seriousness about getting over it, divinisation and all? While it may be tempting to deflate, reduce or burst the Romantic bubble even with a properly critical pin, especially given Heidegger's Nazism, doesn't one have to be able to say, like
- ["Metaphysical realism" = ?](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/metaphysical-realism/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan Dear friends, Someone just mailed me to ask where I got the phrase "metaphysical realism" as referring to an allegedly Heideggerian position. It comes from a post that Richard Capobianco sent us on 31 May of this year. "Certainly, Heidegger remained a sharp critic of a certain kind of traditional
- ["Das Sein entzieht sich"!](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/das-sein-entzieht-sich/) - "Die Unverborgenheit des Seienden, die ihm gewaehrte Helle, verdunkelt das Licht des Seins." Holzwege p310 "Weil es zum Wesen der Wahrheit gehoert, sich in das Seiende einzurichten, um so erst Wahrheit zu werden, deshalb liegt im Wesen der Wahrheit der Zug zum Werk als einer ausgezeichneten Moeglichkeit der Wahrheit, inmitten des Seienden selbst seiend zu
- ["In der Aus-einandersetzung wird Welt."](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/in-der-aus-einandersetzung-wird-welt/) - Disposing of a legacyFrom which a possibilityOf existing can be followed,From which one can choose ones furrow,One is not sent upon ones wayUnless there prevails, let us say,A world-destiny gatheringViable ways of unearthing.
- ["Dieser Ruf kommt als der Wurf"](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/dieser-ruf-kommt-als-der-wurf/) - In the woods there is no purposeAnd this because one does not thinkWhat it is that moves one onwards.One does not think what one might bring.One feels the absence of purpose.One is oneself the missing link.It's against the world yet for itThat one brings ones senses to bearAs to see where it is goingTo exert
- ["Le Grand Pan"](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/le-grand-pan/) - Dear Forum, Following the discussion begun by Professor Polt, yet being "absolument moderne"... I nevertheless recall a chanson: "Le Grand Pan", which begins: Du temps que r gnait le Grand Pan, Les dieux prot gaient les ivrognes Des tas de g nies titubants Au nez rouge, la rouge trogne. D s qu'un homme vidait les cruchons, Qu'un
- ["O, for an age so sheltered from annoy"...](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/o-for-an-age-so-sheltered-from-annoy/) - I will spare the forum my musings (and writings) on Keats and Nietzsche. I will just share my astonishment: antho-logy. Is there any more beautiful name?! And doesn't it sum up the strife that prevails as truth? Best wishes Andrew Price
- ["Sleep and Poetry" (a reference)](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/sleep-and-poetry-a-reference/) - "Sleep and Poetry" lines 396-400: "The very sense of where I was might well Keep sleep aloof: but more than that there cameThought after thought to nourish up the flameWithin my breast; so that the morning lightSurprised me even from a sleepless night;" Best wishes Andrew Price
- ["Sein und Zeit" neu verhandelt](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/sein-und-zeit-neu-verhandelt/) - This new publication includes a number of political critiques of Being and Time. Richard
- ["Yom Kippur Message"](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/yom-kippur-message/) - Dear Friends,The following is in the nature of a New Year s greeting to those on the list with a Heideggerian/Jewish ear.It combines a note to my son withanother draft of a talk to be given at Drake next week.I hope my son won't see this as a violation of privacy, nor will my colleagues
- [(2) FIVE SHORT QUESTIONS TO RICHARD C.](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/2-five-short-questions-to-richard-c/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan Dear Richard, In keeping with the collegial reciprocity I mentioned in my last post, below are the questions I posed to you yesterday and re-pose to you today. 1.Are you saying that the "emergence" (-nature) of beings in the Jurassic Period is the same as the emergence (-nature) of which
- [(1) RESPONSE TO RICHARD C.'S EMAIL OF TODAY](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/1-response-to-richard-c-s-email-of-today/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan Dear Richard (C.), I will respond to the questions you mention in your mail today (17 Feb.) -- but on one condition: you have to promise (really promise) that you will answer straightforwardly the questions I recently posed to you. Do we have a deal? If so, I will repost
- ["es gibt"](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/es-gibt-2/) - Written By: Ellis Dye Dear Friends, I would be most grateful for a reference to one or more passages in the Gesamtausgabe where Heidegger cogently discusses the phrase "es gibt." My thanks. Ellis -----Original Message----- Cc: heideggercircle Thank you, David. This brings to mind Heidegger's October 1929 letter of reference for Eduard Baumgarten,
- ['Time-space,' "Time and Being"](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/time-space-time-and-being/) - Written By: ERIC J SANDBERG The Daseinfrage. What happened to Da-'sein' in Heidegger's not so celebrated 'turn?' An explosion of 'modalities' was indicated in the "Beitrage": 'there-being,' being-there, the appropriation of the later to the former, the openness of historical beings, actual 'stuff,' etc. Our pursuit of 'unity' asked whether the 'modalities' might be
- ["the restlessness of the always inventive operation, which is driven by the anxiety of boredom"](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/the-restlessness-of-the-always-inventive-operation-which-is-driven-by-the-anxiety-of-boredom/) - Here is a long citation from Contributions to Philosophy 7that is striking because it is easy to understand and it says a lot:"How far removed from us is the god, the one who designates us founders and creators, because what is ownmost to god needs these [founders and creators]? God is so far removed from us
- ["the denial of all history"](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/the-denial-of-all-history/) - According to Contributions to Philosophy 130 "Be-ing holds sway as an entity as enowning the grounding of the t/here, put briefly as enowning." Be-ing, experienced as enowning, "transforms all relations to "what is". "[E]ssential human being - and the few of its kind must build its history from within Da-sein and that means must effect
- [(Un)intentional Fallacies Redux](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/unintentional-fallacies-redux/) - Written By: Gregory Fried Colleagues, I have been wanting to respond to the many engaging posts about the question of authorial intention, but I have been on a road trip with my family, and it has been difficult finding the time for a proper reply. And here I try to reply to as many
- ["thisness" and "thatness"](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/thisness-and-thatness/) - Written By: Arkadi Choufrine Dear all-- I am entertaining a hypothesis that for the "early" Heidegger, "thatness" is roughly equivalent to "thisness" (Scotus' haecceitas); in other words: facticity=singularity. So far, I could not either confirm or refute this hypothesis by any direct statements from the texts. Thanks for any suggestions. ~Arkadi
- ["the liberation of the Dasein in man"](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/the-liberation-of-the-dasein-in-man/) - Written By: Arkadi Choufrine This expression from GA 29/30 and some others from the same course, e.g. "evoking the Dasein in man" or "dislodging one's Dasein" (all of them indicating a happening to which philosophy is to serve as a preparation) appear to me as incongruent with the use of the term Dasein in
- ["demise of the ivory tower"?](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/demise-of-the-ivory-tower/) - "engaging with the new producers and consumers of history (especially its consumer-producers) is for us the battlefield in which to counter the problems arising from the commodification of history and the welcomed demise of the ivory tower." The Impact of History? Pedro Ramos Pinto and Bertrand Taithe eds p12 Routledge 2015 Is there a "demise of
- [(Sorry: that last post was missing thefinal paragraph, here restored)](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/sorry-that-last-post-was-missing-thefinal-paragraph-here-restored/) - Written By: Anna Cullen-Wynn Yes, the Sich-verstehen in Entschlossenheit is definitely an existentiell act. But what that act of Sich-verstehen understands (or "projects itself on") is one's existential essence as Sein-zum-Tode. "Verstehen" has two distinct valences in SZ.The text you cite from SZ 143 is about only one of those valences. There is indeed
- [. . . completing that last post,](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/completing-that-last-post/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan . . .which zipped off before I could finish it: Dear Nate, OK: our "always-already being thrown-open." Heidegger sometimes uses "-sein" and sometimes "-heit" to says this, e.g.,: Vorhandensein and VorhandenheitZuhandensein and Zuhandenheit and even Da-sein and Da-heit (GA 88: 46.7-8). Tom On Mon, Jan 25, 2016 at 3:58 PM,
- ["room for choices" in Hd?](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/room-for-choices-in-hd/) - Written By: Arkadi Choufrine Dear Richard--- I was not saying that "Heidegger eliminates freedom" but only that he leaves no room for choice. Sure, there is an understanding of freedom in Hd. But in what sense is it "nontraditional" if not, above all, in that of doing away with choice as a sine
- ["ein Absehen vom wollen des Horizontes"?](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/ein-absehen-vom-wollen-des-horizontes/) - Dear Forum, I have the occasion for Gelassenheit thanks to one Thomas Sheehan, nightwatchman and biotechnology expert, (San Jose, California) who wants me to add him to my very extensive LinkedIn network. Of course, I'm not going to. I don't know him. But he has done me a favour. (If nothing else he has caused
- ['agonizou ton kalon agona'(!)](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/agonizou-ton-kalon-agona/) - Dear Forum, Isn't the strife supposed to commence as a striving for stillness? (Contributions to Philosophy section 13) Wouldn't this strife go towards 'superseding' the striving for self? In fact at CtP section 198 one can read "Selfhood is belongingness in the intimacy of the strife as the conflict over appropriation." This would differ from the selfhood of modern philosophy. The appropriation can
- ["opening up what is most question-worthy"](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/opening-up-what-is-most-question-worthy/) - How does the truth of Being 'take place'? What is the requirement of Being or beyng? The requirement is perhaps only that of preparedness and the oscillation of appropriation would do the rest: Being exacts steadfastness or in-sistence of the one who belongs to it and grounding or creating beyond oneself is the mode of such
- ["whatever is, is true"](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/whatever-is-is-true/) - My post was simply a reminder of Heidegger's central understanding: Aletheia as "primordial truth" as another name for Being itself. No need to go over all the textual ground again, but I would observe that Heidegger may have been picking up on a statement that Augustine made in Soliloquies V that "whatever is, is true"
- ["a world in a grain of sand"](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/a-world-in-a-grain-of-sand/) - World has been discovered beforehand. It is a ground. Yet it remains to be discovered. I'm not sure whether form and content aren't helpful in grasping the ungraspable here. Its purely formal character might be 'space' and its content the articles that articulate it! However, I'm not sure this is really satisfactory. And it is
- ["What is Dasein in light of this turn and difference?"](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/what-is-dasein-in-light-of-this-turn-and-difference/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan . Dear friends, RC wrote to James Osborn, 29 March: ". . . this provokes us to ask, which I raised in my response to Tom, who/what is Dasein in light of this turn and difference?" I'll give my answer -- with the understanding that RC will respond in kindwith
- [(Immediate) Call for Proposals/Papers](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/immediate-call-for-proposals-papers/) - Written By: William Britt The Society for Continental Philosophy and Theology seeks short papers (3000-4000 words) or 500-word proposals on the topic of Heidegger's critique of modernity, especially but not necessarily with an eye to faith or religion. This is for the SCPT's concurrent meeting with the American Catholic Philosophical Association, in Dallas, early
- [(To James Osborne:) It's Richard Capobianco's thesis](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/to-james-osborne-its-richard-capobiancos-thesis/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan Dear James, You wr ote: "The thesis you ask about does not in the least represent my view." It's not my thesis either. It's Richard Capobianco's. Does anyone else hold this view? Tom Richard wr ote (31 May 2017): "Certainly, Heidegger remained a sharp critic of a certain
- ["summer in full-throated ease"](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/summer-in-full-throated-ease/) - This is not personal. Favour gives suck to appreciation.Appreciation gives thought back. FavourWants the good for what is favoured. And itIs good to appreciate, to savour.With sufficient conditions life is good. Andrew pretium Sent from Windows Mail
- ["Trump IS the law," says his lawyer!](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/trump-is-the-law-says-his-lawyer/) - Washington (CNN)The President is the law, according to Donald Trump's personal attorney, John Dowd. The "President cannot obstruct justice because he is the chief law enforcement officer under [the Constitution's Article II] and has every right to express
- [(1) Two meanings of Seinsvergessenheit; (2) the "Inzwischen"](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/1-two-meanings-of-seinsvergessenheit-2-the-inzwischen/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan Dear Richard, May I ask two questions: 1. Re the word "Seinsvergessenheit" in the text you cite from "Humanismusbrief" (below): In Hd's texts Vergessenheit des Seins (i.e., der Lichtung) has two meanings, with (1) as a consequence of (2). (1) genitivus obiectivus: our overlooking and forgetting of the clearing; (2)
- ["was uns im Wesen haelt"](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/was-uns-im-wesen-haelt/) - We have already acquiesced.We consent to the hidden worldFamiliar with some principles.But that's not to say that we thinkWhat appeals to our appetite:The clearing that makes possibleA self we don't hypostatiseThat's actual as possible. Sent from Windows Mail
- ["die Entrueckung eines Volkes in sein Aufgegebenes"](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/die-entrueckung-eines-volkes-in-sein-aufgegebenes/) - We still think we're a cut above,Ever since the end of the war,But the post-war boom is over,The spirit of the blitz still more. Television and computersAre in themselves quite vacuous,"fireside joys, and Lydian airs"Would nowadays be strenuous, Though Keats foresaw "many glories"We got the nineteenth centuryAnd isn't there a wretched curseOf empire weighing heavily? Heaven
- [(feel free to ignore) about meaning, truth and signification](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/feel-free-to-ignore-about-meaning-truth-and-signification/) - Dear Forum, If I have outstayed my welcome here say. I recently purchased Marges de la philosophie (Jacques Derrida). I have reread some of "differance" (sorry about the lack of an acute on the first e) and I have a question:Would it be fair to say that the truth of being approximates to the meaning of
- [(feel free to ignore) der Wink](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/feel-free-to-ignore-der-wink/) - Dear Forum, There was something in my last email: Der Wink (the sign?) as hesitant self-withholding would bring about a captivating transport to abandonment by being (GA65, 383-384) or even die Wahrheit des Seyns (GA65, 407). But if Seinsverlassenheit and die Wahrheit des Seyns can be signifieds, what exactly is the signifier? It would be
- ["Whose phrase, Heidegger's or Gadamer: "thinking follows the furrows that it makes in language"](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/whose-phrase-heideggers-or-gadamer-thinking-follows-the-furrows-that-it-makes-in-language/) - Hi all, If this is Heidegger's can someone tell me where it occurs? David Leech
- ['autopoiesis'](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/autopoiesis/) - Dear Forum, The making of the being (as such as a whole) is an 'autopoiesis', that is a self-making exceeding to eidos en t psuch , the idea in the soul. However, if it is not the idea that begins (as arch ) and guides (as telos) the making of the great work of art
- [2009 meeting photos by Babette Babich](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/2009-meeting-photos-by-babette-babich/) - Written By: Richard Polt http://picasaweb.google.com/Babette.Babich/HeideggerConferenceXavier2009
- [2010 Banquet](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/2010-banquet/) - Dear Heidegger Circle members, If you plan to attend the optional conference banquet on May 8, you can now pay for it online: http://heideggercircle.org/2010.html The convenors tell me that no further registration fee will be required, beyond 2010 Heidegger Circle dues. I expect to have a conference program available soon. Richard Polt
- [A Companion to Heidegger's Phenomenology of Religious Life](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/a-companion-to-heideggers-phenomenology-of-religious-life/) - Written By: Thomas All: I recently finished reading a new text (2010): A Companion to Heidegger's Phenomenology of Religious Life. (Elementa: Schriften Zur Philosophie Und Ihrer Problemgeschichte) [Paperback] S. J. McGrath (Editor), Andrzej Wiercinski (Editor) . Though a bit pricey (US, $113), the text is well worth the European contribution it makes to pulling
- [2011 Proceedings Supplement online](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/2011-proceedings-supplement-online/) - Dear Heidegger Circle members, The supplement to the 2011 Proceedings, including responses to papers and material from the book panel, has been prepared by Pol Vandevelde and is now online at our Documents site: https://sites.google.com/site/heideggercircledocuments/proceedings If you do not get access immediately, sign into Google using the e-mail address where you received this message. Pol
- [A QUERY ABOUT EREIGNIS](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/a-query-about-ereignis/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan Dear colleagues, May I ask for comments on and critiques of the following position? Many thanks. –Tom Sheehan 1. Ereignis is thrownness: Beitr ge 34.9, 239.5, 304.8. 2. Ereignis is intrinsically concealed (“self”-concealed). 3. The reason for no. 2 is that Ereignis
- [A Possible Application of Ereignis](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/a-possible-application-of-ereignis/) - Written By: Gilmore, George Colleagues, I just joined the Heidegger Circle this year and attended the Emory meeting. I have spent a lifetime within traditional "metaphysics," although I sat in on Fr, Richardson's Heidegger class in 1972 at Fordham. I teach a graduate and undergraduate course called "Philosophy for Understanding Theology," with many bright
- [A Question for Forum Members and a Request for Richard C.](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/a-question-for-forum-members-and-a-request-for-richard-c/) - Written By: Bricker, Jeffrey Question: Whenever I post to this forum I take the time to italicize all Greek terms and to underline all book titles, yet I’ve noticed that when my original post appears after someone has replied these refinements are often missing. Is anyone receiving my posts exactly as I send them?
- [A Quick Reply to Richard C.](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/a-quick-reply-to-richard-c/) - Written By: Bricker, Jeffrey Hi Richard, I’m with you in seeing nothing sinister in a path of thought that is ultimately a “phainesthetics” (to use Caputo’s coinage), but I do see something extremely monotonous in it. I’ve spent a decade trudging through the later writings and , regardless of whether the occasion for thinking
- [1995 Heidegger Circle Proceedings now online](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/1995-heidegger-circle-proceedings-now-online/) - Dear Heidegger Circle members, Reg Lilly, who hosted our 1995 meeting, has kindly provided a digital version of the Proceedings for that year. You can now find the papers on our Proceedings page: http://heideggercircle.org/vortraege.html Richard Polt
- [A QUESTION](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/a-question/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan Dear friends,I'd like to offer some reflections on recent exchanges, as well as a final question.1. Sein and SinnHeidegger's "presencing of beings" does not refer to some event that puts things on the spatio-temporal map; and the things' presence is not their mere "being there" (Vorhandensein) in space and time.
- [A (Perhaps) Helpful Quotation For The Recent Exchange](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/a-perhaps-helpful-quotation-for-the-recent-exchange/) - Written By: Bricker, Jeffrey Dear Forum Members, In reading through the last dozen or so posts about being, meaningfulness, etc. I was reminded of Herman Philipse’s characterization of B&T as a advocating a species of “non-trivial weak transcendentalism”. Here’s a lengthy quote: Heidegger argues in section 43 of Sein und Zeit that real entities
- [A Possible Topic For Discussion](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/a-possible-topic-for-discussion/) - Written By: Bricker, Jeffrey Dear Forum Members, Here’s my question: Is there any consensus among American Heidegger scholars as to why the huge project that was originally planned to be Being & Time was not completed? I read somewhere that it wasn’t until 1930-31 that the author finally accepted that what he had published
- [2 New Articles on Being-Physis-"Nature's Gleaming"](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/2-new-articles-on-being-physis-natures-gleaming/) - Dear Colleagues, These Forum pages have seen much discussion over the past few months about Being itself, "letting," the ontological difference, and so forth. I have posted my positions (and my objections to all "new paradigms"). The following two recently published articles restate and advance--perhaps in a more poetic manner--the readings and positions that I
- [A FORMULATION](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/a-formulation/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan Dear friends,May I ask if this formulation can pass muster? I use “intrinsic concealment” instead of “self-concealment” to avoid a false sense of agency. Thanks and happy New Year. --Tom“No matter how unthematically, the metaphysical correlativity of thinking and Being had long been known, but the open space (Lichtung) within
- [A "PARADIGM SHIFT"](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/a-paradigm-shift/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan Dear Richard,I’m hoping to get feedback from you and the other colleagues on a couple of points that are the basis of the so-called “paradigm shift” I am proposing for understanding Heidegger. FIRST:At the core of my reading is the thesis that being (das Sein) is always the meaningful givenness
- [A Quotation that Richard C. Will Like!](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/a-quotation-that-richard-c-will-like/) - Dear Forum Members, While browsing through some books in my personal library I came across this quotation: "What Heidegger appears to be most concerned about in his later writings is...establishing that being...is in some vitally important sense prior to and independent of human beings." This passage is from Heidegger and the Philosophy of Mind by
- [A FURTHER TEXT ON SEIN / DASEIN](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/a-further-text-on-sein-dasein/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan Dear friends, Just a further overview-text from Heidegger. Best regards, --Tom The fundamental thought of my thinking is precisely that Being, or the manifestation of Being, *needs *human beings and that, vice versa, human beings are human only if they are standing in the manifestation of Being. (GA 16: 704.1-5
- [A NEW BOOK](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/a-new-book/) - Written By: David Kleinberg-Levin Dear Heidegger Circle Friends:Just in case you might be interested, I am sending you information about my latest book publication, a philosophically informed literary study which engages pre- and post- World War II German history, language, literature, philosophy, and the Holocaust as an object of remembrance. Redeeming Words: Language
- [A NEW BOOK!](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/a-new-book-2/) - Written By: David Kleinberg-Levin Dear Heidegger Circle Friends:Just in case you might be interested, I am sending you information about my latest book publication, a philosophically informed literary study which engages pre- and post- World War II German history, language, literature, philosophy, and the Holocaust as an object of remembrance. Redeeming Words: Language
- [A Fool's Errand? Or Just Zen Lunacy, Maybe?](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/a-fools-errand-or-just-zen-lunacy-maybe/) - Written By: eric d. meyer eric d. meyer ericdavismeyer@gmail.com 11:58 AM (0 minutes ago) to heideggercricle, Thomas Dear Professor Sheehan et al.: Here's the DT Suzuki text I was alluding to: "What is needed here in the penetration of the innerliness of reality is a kind of existential intuition [per Edmund Husserl?]... But in
- [A Horse is a Good Hobby](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/a-horse-is-a-good-hobby/) - Written By: Derek Smith Dear Heidegger Circle, I have two immediate concerns as this conversation unfolds. 1) I am worried about distinctions like science vs. scientism and technology vs. technicity. It seems that that could easily be a way of saying "good" vs "bad," such as: the attitudes I like are real science while
- [2014 HC banquet](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/2014-hc-banquet/) - Dear Heidegger Circle members, This year's conveners have asked me to remind you that if you plan to come to the meeting in Florida and attend the banquet, you should reserve a place soon. There will be a strict limit of 50 seats at the banquet. It will take place at a great tapas restaurant
- [A Clarification](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/a-clarification/) - Written By: Derek Smith Hi Heidegger Circle, The reason I was asking the questions that I did today is that I am interested in how other thinkers use, appropriate, think along with a thinker like Heidegger. This seems very important in his case in particular, not only because of his being a Nazi, his
- [A Belated Response to the Auseinandersetzen: Martin Heidegger's Seinsgeschichte Irrelevant?](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/a-belated-response-to-the-auseinandersetzen-martin-heideggers-seinsgeschichte-irrelevant/) - Written By: eric d. meyer Dear Heideggerians: When Prof. Sheehan challenged the HC to an Auseinandersetzung recently over Martin Heidegger's Seinsgeschichte & post-Kehre thinking, I was thinking about something else (...the Ukraine, among other things...). But last night, reading Richard Wolin's The Politics of Being, I came across this citation of Prof. Sheehan's criticism
- [A NEWS FLASH FROM THE BELLY OF THE GESTELL](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/a-news-flash-from-the-belly-of-the-gestell/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/16/magazine/silicon-valleys-youth-problem.html?ref=todayspaper Thomas Sheehan Stanford University Stanford, CA 94305-2165 650 723-3322http://religiousstudies.stanford.edu/people/tom-sheehan/
- [A PAUSE](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/a-pause/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan Dear friends, As much as I find all the posts thought-provoking and insightful, I'm afraid I have to take a break from responding to the list until early April in order to take care of some other pressing tasks. With best regards, Tom Thomas Sheehan Stanford University Stanford, CA 94305-2165
- [?](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/7666/) - Written By: Shane Ewegen
- [16: 587 quotes “Gingo biloba.”16: 587 quotes “Gingo biloba.”Re: A further connection](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/16-587-quotes-gingo-biloba-16-587-quotes-gingo-biloba-re-a-further-connection/) - Written By: Ellis Dye Dear Julia, After thanking you for the reference to GA 16, I discover, in a file made when the Heidegger concordance came out, the following reference: 16: 587 quotes "Gingo biloba." In case you or any others may be interested, I'll attach
- [A CRACK IN THE FRENCH DEFENCE?](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/a-crack-in-the-french-defence/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan Dear friends, The attached text (for which I thank Prof. Jeff Bloechl of Boston College) seems to indicate a division within Heidegger orthodoxy in France regarding GA 94-96. Vezin appears to have broken with Fedier. Best wishes, Tom Attachments-418/VEZIN DENOUNCES HEIDEGGER!.pdf
- [1994 proceedings digitized](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/1994-proceedings-digitized/) - Dear HC members, I've made a little more progress on digitizing our past volumes of proceedings: the 1994 volume is now available. Our proceedings page is: http://heideggercircle.org/sprachespricht.html Richard
- [A Heidegger bibliography and recent article, attached](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/a-heidegger-bibliography-and-recent-article-attached/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan Dear friends, As promised--and with thanks to those who helped improve it--I attach a Word version of the recently published "Heidegger's Gesamtausgabe and its English Translations" (Continental Philosophy Review, 47, 2 [2014]). If you not any errors (still!), I would be grateful if you would let me know of them.
- [A Poetic Line](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/a-poetic-line/) - Hello, all, There is a lovely line from Mary Oliver's prose poem "The Moth, The Mountains, The Rivers" that puts us in touch with Heidegger's understanding of Being as physis and of our "released" relation to it: ...And I suggest them to you also, that your spirit grow in curiosity, that your life be richer
- [A Few Clarifications: Heidegger's Way of Being](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/a-few-clarifications-heideggers-way-of-being/) - Hello, all, Again, I am very grateful that Jeff has engaged the new book in the pages of the Forum, and, of course, his summaries and assessments are his own. His earlier, more detailed, posts appear to me to be more helpful than the overly broad summaries, and I encourage those who are interested in
- [2015 meeting](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/2015-meeting/) - The 2015 meeting was a notable success, thanks to our conveners and participants. Minutes from the business meeting will be sent to all members eventually. The most notable decision was to hold the 2016 meeting at DePaul in September. Babette has sent me some photos from the meeting which I ll be posting on the
- [A Note on the Notebooks](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/a-note-on-the-notebooks/) - What Matt Barnard has posted is noteworthy because, as I have posted on the Forum before, there are many "entries" in the first four volumes of Heidegger's Notebooks that are exceptionally important and helpful in understanding his thinking and the development of his thinking. It will take time to work through the philosophical import of
- [A *further* attempt at interpreting GA 97: 175.12-15](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/a-further-attempt-at-interpreting-ga-97-175-12-15/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan Dear Arkadi, Another instance of Hd's free-wheeling: When does das Sein mean das Sein des Seienden and when does it mean die Lichtung, i.e., das Wesen des Seins? Instead of worrying that issue, I thought I'd offer some suggestions on the no. 6 you refer to: 6. das Wesende des
- [A Question on Heidegger's Hermeneutics](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/a-question-on-heideggers-hermeneutics/) - Dear All: The second endnote in Andrew Mitchell's The Fourfold quotes a 1964 letter from Heidegger to Dieter Sinn (which actually, it seems, Richard Polt mentioned to him). The letter is rather startling in terms of its claim, and then Mitchell's claim is also powerful. Heidegger is dealing with the question of why "his own
- [A Question Concerning Nicht-Zu-Hause](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/a-question-concerning-nicht-zu-hause/) - Dear All: Richard Capobianco offers his "impression" that in later years Heidegger may have corrected his own earlier assumption of the radical, ontological "Nicht-Zu-Hause"-ness of Dasein and may have moved in the direction of claiming that such a state of homelessness or displacement would have to do with our current age predominantly. In other words
- [. . . make that "Abbey" > Abby. -Tom](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/make-that-abbey-abby-tom/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan -- Thomas SheehanStanford Universityhttp://religiousstudies.stanford.edu/people/tom-sheehan/
- [25% discount offer on Heidegger-Jünger correspondence](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/25-discount-offer-on-heidegger-junger-correspondence/) - Exclusive Discount Offer for Heidegger Circle Members! Rowman & Littlefield International is proud to announce the publication ofCorrespondence 1949-1979 by Martin Heidegger and Ernst J nger and translated by Timothy Sean Quinn. This is the third book in the New Heidegger Research series. This book is a complete English translation of the correspondence between the philosopher Martin Heidegger
- [A (belated) response to Reg Lilly](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/a-belated-response-to-reg-lilly/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan Dear Reg, I'm sorry for such a tardy reply to your post (below). Again, I insert in red my own reflections following yours in black. Best r egards, Tom (Without getting into the 'Being' debate again) If there was no meaning back then, and Sein = occurrence of meaning, then
- [1/13 | Martin Heidegger – Nietzsche 13/13](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/1-13-martin-heidegger-nietzsche-13-13/) - Written By: Joachim Kübler Live stream available now! Best, Joachim http://blogs.law.columbia.edu/nietzsche1313/1-13/ 1/13 | MARTIN HEIDEGGER Martin Heidegger's Nietzsche (1936-1939) September 8, 2016with Babette Babich, Taylor Carman, and Jes s R. VelascoDuring the years 1936 to 1939, Martin Heidegger delivered a series of influential lectures on
- [A Note of the 50th Heidegger Circle Meeting](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/a-note-of-the-50th-heidegger-circle-meeting/) - Hello, all, The 50th meeting of the Heidegger Circle was a marvelous celebration of 50 years of serious and dedicated scholarship on Heidegger's thought. It was also terrific to recognize and honor the special place of Ted Kisiel and Bill Richardson in the life of the Heidegger Circle. Will McNeill and Sean Kirkland were such
- [2017 meeting schedule now online](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/2017-meeting-schedule-now-online/) - The program for this year's Heidegger Circle meeting is now online: http://heideggercircle.org/2017.html Attendees, please book your room at the Marcus Whitman Hotel by Monday, March 6. Thanks to Julia Ireland for planning what promises to be an exciting and enjoyable conference. Richard Polt
- [1959 Christlicher Glaube und Denken](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/1959-christlicher-glaube-und-denken/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan Dear friends, This may have already been sent out, Heidegger at a 1959 conference. Tom -- Thomas Sheehan Stanford University https://religiousstudies.stanford.edu/people/tom-sheehan/publications/ Attachments-420/1959 CHRISTLICHER GLAUBE und DENKEN.pdf
- [25% discount on "After Heidegger?"](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/25-discount-on-after-heidegger/) - The latest volume in the New Heidegger Research series, After Heidegger?, collects 33 essays from an international group of scholars on what matters most in Heidegger's thought today. The introduction to the volume is attached. It explains our conception of the collection and briefly indicates the theme of each essay. The book can be ordered
- [A Link to an important talk by the later Heidegger on the Clearing](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/a-link-to-an-important-talk-by-the-later-heidegger-on-the-clearing/) - Hello, all, just a quick follow-up to my last message. I want to share with readers a link to one of the later Heidegger's most extensive discussions of die Lichtung. Some readers will be familiar with this text from my own discussions of it, but perhaps some are not familiar with it. Marie Goebel and
- [A Link to another Heidegger-related text (with Heidegger's reply)](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/a-link-to-another-heidegger-related-text-with-heideggers-reply/) - Hello, again; I was glad to hear that the last text was of interest to several, so I am also providing a link to a translation of a delightful talk by Koichi Tsujimura delivered on the occasion of Heidegger's 80th birthday in 1969 (see notes for provenance and other details). There are a number of
- [A Poppy](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/a-poppy/) - "[...] gleich als haetteMuthig und muessig ein Kind des Meisters Geweihte, reine Saiten im Scherz geruerht?" That I am and I have to beCan be excused with a poppyFor irresponsibility,For ground that one cannot redeem.Responsibility onlyExtends so far. One is guilty...One is guilty innocentlyOf choice without choosing to be.It is a thrill thus to be
- [30% off New Heidegger Research titles](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/30-off-new-heidegger-research-titles/) - Dear Heidegger Circle members, As many of you know, Gregory Fried and I edit the New Heidegger Research book series, published by Rowman & Littlefield International. We are proud of the two recent titles whose authors mentioned them on this list yesterday: Proto-Phenomenology, Language Acquisition, Orality, and Literacy, by Lawrence J. Hatab Heidegger's Phenomenology of
- [A modest contribution: Heidegger on Aristotle on the Emotions in RHETORIC BK 2 in PHILOSOPHY TODAY (Dec 2010)](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/a-modest-contribution-heidegger-on-aristotle-on-the-emotions-in-rhetoric-bk-2-in-philosophy-today-dec-2010/) - Written By: Lou Agosta Here is a modest contribution by yours truly hot from the pages of PHILOSOPHY TODAY (Dec 2010 / 54:4): “Heidegger’s 1924 Clearing of the Affects Using Aristotle’s Rhetoric, Book II” [pp. 333ff] Available for free, legal, ethical,
- [A query](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/a-query/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan Concerning Sein and Seiendheit, can anyone help clarify these two related issues? (1) Is Sein as used in Sein und Zeit Seiendheit, as contrasted with the Sinn or Wahrheit des Seins? E.g., If Welt = Sein, is the serviceability of tools a form
- [A film that explores being-in-the-world � la Heidegger � la Dreyfus](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/a-film-that-explores-being-in-the-world-�-la-heidegger-�-la-dreyfus/) - http://beingintheworldmovie.com Their latest blog entry is September 2010, when the film was shown at some festivals. I don't know what's been happening since then or when it might be available on DVD or otherwise.
- [A couple of group notes](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/a-couple-of-group-notes/) - I have changed the settings for the Heidegger Circle Forum so that by default, replies go only to the particular author of a message. If you wish to send your reply to the group at large, address it to heideggercircle@googlegroups.com. I am removing group members who haven't paid their 2012 HC dues. If you still
- [A brief comment on Eric's two postings of 8/11](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/a-brief-comment-on-erics-two-postings-of-8-11/) - Written By: Bricker, Jeffrey Dear Forum Members, I’ve just finished reading through Eric’s two postings about Derrida’s take on Heidegger’s lengthy footnote to section 82 of Being & Time as discussed in the essay “Ousia and Gramme” in Margins of Philosophy (Chicago, 1982). Now that my headache is starting to subside, I should make
- [A Simplistic Answer to Allen's Simplistic Question....](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/a-simplistic-answer-to-allens-simplistic-question/) - Written By: Bricker, Jeffrey Dear Forum Members, The major hurdle for any interpreter of Heidegger’s path of thinking is coming to terms with the upheaval in his thought during the 1930s. It is unfortunate that Being and Time remains incomplete, but the real interpretive problem lies in making sense of his almost total abandonment,
- [A Response to Being itself/Ereignis Comments](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/a-response-to-being-itself-ereignis-comments/) - Dear all, Ah, away for one day and a flurry of notes! To begin, I have been crystal clear in many places that my view is that Being itself/Ereignis lets/gives/grants beings in their beingness, so when Heidegger speaks of Es gibt Sein, he is referring to the giving of Sein qua Seiendheit (beingness). Therefore, it
- [A note on the manuscript](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/a-note-on-the-manuscript/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan Dear friends, Ted has allowed me to send you the text but, given the note on the first page of batch one, please keep this ms. ad usum privatum exclusivumque circuli heideggeriani. --Tom
- [A TEXT FROM THE RECENT GA 83](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/a-text-from-the-recent-ga-83/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan Dear friends,The recent GA 83 has an entry that may bear on the discussion about meaningfulness. I have done a very quick and imperfect translation of it, for which I beg pardon and ask for corrections. As with much of Heidegger, the German reads more clearly than the English, especially
- [A TEXT ON SEIN / DASEIN](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/a-text-on-sein-dasein/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan Dear friends, Just another overview-text where Heidegger seems to affirm that Sein and Dasein are always given together. --Tom *Das Seyn braucht den Menschen, damit es wese, und der Mensch geh rt dem Seyn.* Meaning needs man in order to occur, and man belongs to meaning. [GA 65: 251.11-2 =
- [A case in point? Review of *Heidegger and Language*](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/a-case-in-point-review-of-heidegger-and-language/) - Written By: Ingvild Torsen Matt Shockey has a review of Heidegger and Language, a new collection of essays, on NDPR today. He writes: These essays seem to be oriented towards readers who are relatively new to or only somewhat familiar with Heidegger's work ... there is a lot of exposition and summarizing, little positioning of claims
- [A RIGHT WAY TO INTEPRET SEIN?](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/a-right-way-to-intepret-sein/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan Dear Richard, Out of curiosity: How would you answer your own (spot-on) question: "Would it mean that there is potentially a right way to interpret Sein?" 1.I thought we already knew (at least from Heidegger's perspective) what the right way to interpret Sein is, namely: Sein = das Anwesen des
- [A question about Heidegger in China](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/a-question-about-heidegger-in-china/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan Dear friends, May I ask for any information you may have about Heidegger studies in China: philosophers, departments, translations -- the works. Many thanks. Tom -- Thomas Sheehan Stanford University Stanford, CA 94305-2165 650 723-3322http://religiousstudies.stanford.edu/people/tom-sheehan/
- [A helpful bibliography on the Black Notebooks](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/a-helpful-bibliography-on-the-black-notebooks/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan Dear friends, A colleague in Poland, Andrzej Serafin, has put together a helpful bibliography on the Black Notebooks, often with hyperlinks to the texts or videos. Best regards, Tom https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Notebooks
- [A question about the question of . . .](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/a-question-about-the-question-of/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan Dear friends, I attended a Heidegger conference last month in which there seemed to be some confusion about the following phrases. Is there a consensus in this forum, or in the Heidegger Circle, about the relations and/or differences among the following four items? Thanks. Tom Die Frage nach 1. -
- [A previous omission re ϕύσις](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/a-previous-omission-re-ϕύσις/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan Dear friends, I realize that I left out the most important question in this crucial issue of , namely, number four below. Thanks in advance for any clarification on these four quite distinct issues. Best regards, Tom ______________________________________ 1. in Heraclitus 2. in ancient Greece apart from Heraclitus, when it
- [A question about Ereignis](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/a-question-about-ereignis/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan Dear friends, Given recent discussion of this matter, is there a consensus in this forum or in the Heidegger Circle about the following? If Es gibt Sein = Ereignis gibt Sein, and if Ereignis = das Sein selbst, 1. does das Sein selbst give . . . . . das
- [A query about Dasein](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/a-query-about-dasein/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan Dear friends,The page reference to the text I sent out the other day (attached once again below) is: GA 97: 175. That volume (Anmerkungen I-V) contains materials from 1942 through 1948. The text says of Dasein: es h lt die Lichtung des Seins aus, was es, das Dasein, nur vermag,
- [a complication](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/a-complication/) - Through our projection we can only enter the truth of being of Da-sein in our grounding of Da-sein. This is the leap into abandonment by being and in the grounding of Da-sein there is an oscillation between human and being, that is, an appropriation, and the human and Da-sein mutually ground each other. "Within the
- [A modest response to Greg's recent post](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/a-modest-response-to-gregs-recent-post/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan Dear Greg and friends, Some thoughts on Greg's long post earlier today (July 18): 1. I don't claim my readings are the last word at all. In my Forum postings, I always try to say: "Is this right? Is there a better reading?" The preface of Making Sense says: "I
- [a more elementary struggle](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/a-more-elementary-struggle/) - Thanks to Greg Fried for his supportive though daunting response on the question of class. There is one strife or struggle that I am trying to extricate myself from, that of "a subject striving toward himself as his self-posited goal" (see "The Origin of the Work of Art"). A particular self that puts itself first gets tangled up
- [A cleaner copy of "Faye -- Fraud?" attached](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/a-cleaner-copy-of-faye-fraud-attached/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan Dear friends, A better copy of the article is attached. (The other copy scrunched words together.) Tom Attachments-414/2015 SEPTEMBER - FAYE AND FRAUD - AS PUBLISHED.pdf
- [a question about the clearing-Dasein discussion](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/a-question-about-the-clearing-dasein-discussion/) - Written By: Anna Cullen-Wynn Hello. I have been reading the forum discussions for the last two years, but this is my first post, so allow me to introduce myself. A native of Ireland, I studied phenomenology and Greek philology at Freiburg, where I took the Ph.D. I then, taught philosophy for some years as
- [a little song for supper](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/a-little-song-for-supper/) - Dear Forum, It is thanks to the clearing that we, beings that we are, are freed. We are freed as beings and thus we are, or are prone to be, integrated in the clearing. Named human, it is, however, thanks to us that the clearing holds. Thought deeply as 'truth' that underlies truth the clearing is of course
- [A TROUBLING QUESTION](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/a-troubling-question/) - Written By: David Kleinberg-Levin I have decided to post for all members to see the message I sent earlier today just to Richard Capobianco. It occurred to me that others might like to read it.DKL. Good morning, Richard!I assume you have been following the torrent of comments following, and related to, your posting of
- [A query from Larry Berger](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/a-query-from-larry-berger/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan Dear friends, Larry Berger has sent me privatim a very important note (below) to which I respond (further below). --Tom Query: Dear Tom: Since I have been looking at GA 66, I checked two of your citations, 100.30 and 129.5. I found this: GA 66: 100.30 Das Offene der Lichtung
- [A final word on Prof. Capobianco vs. Prof. Sheehan](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/a-final-word-on-prof-capobianco-vs-prof-sheehan/) - Written By: Anna Cullen-Wynn Hello. Two other members of the listserve have written me to ask about Prof. Capobianco's position on Dasein and the clearing. I must repeat that while I agree with Prof. Capobianco's position, I do not speak for him and so must refer anyone interested to Prof. Capobianco himself. But what
- [a future builds itself](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/a-future-builds-itself/) - Dear Forum, In my messages to the forum I have been concerned with the strife of un-concealment, mostly inspired by "The Origin of the Work of Art". I have been looking for some alternative to "a subject striving toward himself as his self-posited goal." Perhaps I have made some progress in this direction. It seems that response
- [A crisis from within as well as from without?](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/a-crisis-from-within-as-well-as-from-without/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan Dear friends, It would seem that the Heideggeriantum is going through a crisis ab intra as well as ab extra. These issues come to mind: ab extra1. the issue of the recent GA volumes, the "Black Notebooks"2.the possibility of the GA not being republished;3. jobs for younger scholars, especially in
- [a new claim?](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/a-new-claim/) - Dear Forum, I gather one has to let oneself be claimed by Being or abide in the provenance of ones essence. It doesn't sound much but surely this is Heidegger's answer to the problem of striving towards objects. Is it a good answer? To abide in the provenance of ones essence, in "die Gegnet"(!), or, why
- [A brief response to Laurence Hemming's post](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/a-brief-response-to-laurence-hemmings-post/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan Dear Laurence: A brief response to eight of your points. Best regards, Tom
- [A TEXT AND A QUERY ABOUT SEIN](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/a-text-and-a-query-about-sein/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan Dear friends, 1. In the attached, undated text, which seems to come before Beitr ge, Heidegger writes: Das Wesen des Menschen beruht im Seinsverst ndnis. Das Sein verstehen ist Entwurf der Lichtung, worin "Sein", ungegenst ndlich und unvorstellbar, ins Offene kommt. (10.1-2) 1.1 roughly: The essence of a human being
- [A point-by-point response to Larrys post of 23 November](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/a-point-by-point-response-to-larrys-post-of-23-november/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan Dear Larry, I attach the response (because it is so long and perhaps of no interest to some). I believe that between this post and the previous I've articulated most of what I understand about these issues. Be that as it may, I welcome your and anyone else's critiques, and
- [A photo of Bil taken in 2005, from Vincent McCarthy](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/a-photo-of-bil-taken-in-2005-from-vincent-mccarthy/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan On Sat, Dec 10, 2016 at 8:11 AM, VIncent McCarthy wrote: Hello to all. I received a phone call a few minutes ago from Fr. Bob Levens, SJ, to inform us that Fr. William Richardson, SJ, died peacefully earlier this morning at 1:30 a.m.Extremely sad new. I feel confident
- [A note on "passive potency" in Metaphysics IX 1.](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/a-note-on-passive-potency-in-metaphysics-ix-1/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan Dear friends, For what it's worth, a brief note on GA 33: 87-88 = 73-74, where Heidegger discusses the important topic of "passive potency" in Metaphysics IX 1. The ET seems to have significant problems on these pages. Any thoughts on all this? Tom 1. The translation of (Heidegger: Kraft)
- [A dialogue: three texts from Richard Capobianco](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/a-dialogue-three-texts-from-richard-capobianco/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan Dear Richard, Thanks for taking up Richard Polt's suggestion by offering these three texts. May I ask what you make of the following comments? Tom "Being and the truth of Being is essentially beyond all human beings and every historical humanity. (Parmenides, 1942-43, GA 54: 249) GA 54: 249.11-16 distinguishes
- [A query about the Heidegger-Gesellschaft](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/a-query-about-the-heidegger-gesellschaft/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan Dear friends, Is anyone a member of the Gesellschaft and willing to share any of the texts published as the Jahresgabe der Martin-Heidegger-Gesellschaft? I'm particularly (but not exclusively) interested in "R ckweg und Kehre" from 2000. Thanks. Tom
- [a citation from Einfuerung in die Metaphysik](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/a-citation-from-einfuerung-in-die-metaphysik/) - Dear Forum, At the inception the being would have been given, that is, unhidden and integrally so:"Das Sein ist das Seiende. Hierbei spricht "ist" transitiv und besagt soviel wie "versammelt". Das Sein versammelt das Seiende darin, das es Seiendes ist. Das Sein ist die Versammlung -- ." What is Philosophy? p48 The story of being is one of
- [a distinction](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/a-distinction/) - Instituting and sheltering truth are different! Seems that sheltering is the minor happening of truth and the condition of instituting: "What was indicated about it [truth] on the occasion of the lectures on the work of art, and was conceived as "instituting," is already the *consequence* of the *sheltering* which properly preserves the cleared-concealed." *Contributions
- [A further reply to James](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/a-further-reply-to-james/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan Dear James, Perhaps we must get clear on a fundamental distinction before going on. You write that my position "seems to eliminate completely any sense of the dual nature or bi-directionality of Ereignis that we also find in Heidegger: e.g., "beyng does not essentially occur by the grace of humans..."
- [A photo of Löwith, Gadamer, Heidegger -- and an unnamed acquaintance (attached)](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/a-photo-of-lowith-gadamer-heidegger-and-an-unnamed-acquaintance-attached/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan With thanks to Jeff Bloechl. Tom Attachments-412/Lo with, Gadamer, Heidegger. . . and a friend..pdf
- [a bagatelle? ("das seiende Sein")](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/a-bagatelle-das-seiende-sein/) - Dear Forum, I have followed the recent discussion and cobbled together the following inspired by its concluding remarks on Being being more being than every being... Plain manifestation of the being does not count as being itself. There must be world. And for world we might add, drawing on Einf hrung in die Metaphysik and
- [a fine distinction? (feel free to ignore)](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/a-fine-distinction-feel-free-to-ignore/) - Dear Forum, This email is not intended to impose on anyone who has made up their mind about the issue of independence and can be ignored. What does Unabh ngigkeit mean? Literally, it means not hanging down, like independence... Thus die Wahrheit ist unabh ngig vom Menschen, it doesn't hang down from the human and
- [a line from Lévinas](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/a-line-from-levinas/) - Dear Forum, A dedication can let the god (come to) presence (GA5, 29). Heidegger gives the example of a statue. According to Heraclitus fragment 5, however, one does not worship statues. For him the source of the divine can be polemos that reveals and perhaps decides who is who or who is what (fragment 53).
- [a Sunday question](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/a-sunday-question/) - Dear Forum, It is very early here in the UK. I am reading a book on Aristotle and I have strung together the following question:Is grace about preference (prohairesis?) and eudaimonia, that is to say, does it not bear on practical wisdom in such a way that the efforts of people are dedicated to winning
- [A few questions on "phenomenology"](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/a-few-questions-on-phenomenology/) - A few questions at the following link, for those interested: https://www.academia.edu/39104115/A_Note_on_the_Contemporary_Confusions_with_the_Term_Phenomenology_ Richard
- [A Summertime Interlude on The Thinghood of the Thing](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/a-summertime-interlude-on-the-thinghood-of-the-thing/) - Hi Group! I hope everyone is enjoying their well deserved summer. It's been great to receive private messages from some of you over the last little while! I was thinking, if anyone was maybe interested in a chat, an interesting topic might be The Thinghood of the Thing in Heidegger. As a possible conversation starter,
- [ABOUT A HEIDEGGER TERM](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/about-a-heidegger-term/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan Dear colleagues, Thanks to all who have replied. The phrase is from GA 45, 211, but it appears elsewhere as
- [a thought](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/a-thought/) - Dear friends and colleagues, I've begun working on an article, "Contextualizing the Metaphysical Impulse," which, as is usual for me, will take form at the interface of Heidegger's philosophy and what I call "post-Cartesian psychoanalysis." It occured to me that if the later Heidegger had been able completely to resist the metaphysical impulse (as he
- [ABOUT PRESENCING AND ITS SOURCE](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/about-presencing-and-its-source/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan Dear friends,As regards only part of what is being discussed in response to Jeff’s posting, I would suggest1.Yes, presencing = letting things be present as what and how they are.2.And such presencing takes different forms over Western history: die Seinsgeschichte.3.But Heidegger’s basic question is: Whence presencing? What
- [A response to Eric](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/a-response-to-eric/) - Written By: Bricker, Jeffrey In your lengthy post of 9/26 there are two topics. Your first topic is about the possible relationship between the ontological difference and ereignis. Your second topic is whether or not metaphysics is escapable. Comment on topic #1: You’re not apt to make much progress with this for, I think,
- [A quote from Richard Rorty that Matt will Appreciate....](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/a-quote-from-richard-rorty-that-matt-will-appreciate/) - Written By: Bricker, Jeffrey “The whole force of Heidegger’s thought lies in his account of the history of philosophy.” (Consequences of Pragmatism, Minnesota University Press, 1982—see the essay “Overcoming the Tradition: Heidegger and Dewey”). Jeff Bricker
- [a simplistic question](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/a-simplistic-question/) - Even though it simplifies an essential and complex issue, I think it still might be worth dealing with at this level. The question concerns how to do philosophy with Heidegger. In other words, how ought we to read/understand, perhaps even evaluate his phenomenology. Or, a related question, how do we respond to/evaluate an interpretation of
- [ABANDONING A TRANSCENDENTAL APPROACH?](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/abandoning-a-transcendental-approach/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan Dear friends,I am trying to gather as many texts as possible in which Heidegger mentions or discusses his abandonment of a transcendental approach to the question of Being in favor of the later seinsgeschichtlich approach. I would be grateful for any help in ferreting out such texts. Best regards, --Tom
- [AN ARGUMENT, PLEASE.](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/an-argument-please/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan Dear Richard and friends,Other than name-calling (Cartesian! Kantian! transcendental idealist!) we need an argument or two – or absent that, at least some texts from Heidegger. Apart from the arguments that I have presented, my last posting listed sixteen texts (and there are others) where Heidegger insists that being is
- [a teaching question](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/a-teaching-question/) - Dear Friends, In preparing to teach "Letter on Humanism," I came across "once again, as if for the first time" one of my favorite passages as it reads to an admittedly over-romantic and over-romanticizing student of Heidegger: At the same time thinking is of being insofar as thinking belonging to being, listens to being. As
- [a question--PS](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/a-question-ps/) - PS: My colleague has concluded that this quotation has been misattributed to Heidegger. How unfortunate, since it's all over the internet! A colleague has asked me whether Heidegger actually said these words and, if so, where: "If I take death into my life, acknowledge it, and face it squarely, I will free myself from the
- [AN IMPASSE](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/an-impasse/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan Dear Richard,Yes, an impasse.In my posts to the list over the last week I have backed up every claim I made with exact citations from Heidegger's works, even facilitating a fact-check by citing the very lines on which the texts appear in both the German and English editions. By my
- [ANIMAL DASEIN AND ANWESEN](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/animal-dasein-and-anwesen/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan Dear Shane, Good points, and I think you are right. It strikes me that a central issues concerns how Heidegger reads the difference between aisthesis and logos. Related to that is the difference between Anwesen for the animal and Anwesen for Dasein. I take it that Anwesen for Dasein is
- [A question: Heidegger's "phenomenological eyes"](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/a-question-heideggers-phenomenological-eyes/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan Dear friends, Can anyone direct me to the text in which Heidegger says that Husserl gave him "phenomenological eyes"? Thank you. Tom Thomas Sheehan Stanford University Stanford, CA 94305-2165 650 723-3322http://religiousstudies.stanford.edu/people/tom-sheehan/
- [A word about context of Heidegger's "anti-Semitism"](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/a-word-about-context-of-heideggers-anti-semitism/) - Written By: Ellis Dye Dear Heideggerians, With the op-ed furor about Heidegger's schwarze Hefte in mind, I wonder if others might have read the article by Noah Feldman "Could FDR Have Done More
- [ADAM KNOWLES' CITATION](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/adam-knowles-citation/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan Dear Adam. You cite: "Mit jenem Mi verst ndnis der Wesung des Seins als Seinsverst ndnis und dessen Bedingung der M glichkeit geht zusammen die Gleichsetzung von Menschsein und Dasein ( das Dasein im Menschen', vom Wesen des Grundes); meint zwar eine Unterscheidung, aber dennoch ist der Ort des Da-Seins
- [a warm cool-down lap: farewell to Heidegger Circle 2014](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/a-warm-cool-down-lap-farewell-to-heidegger-circle-2014/) - Written By: Megan Flocken Dear Circle, I hope you have all recovered from the full sun of florida's summer daze. I am called to muse on Ms. Aumiller's description of the fitting repose of dasein: catch a bit of shade, but do not be lulled to stay so safely composed, afraid of the way
- [AN EXTRAORDINARY REQUEST](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/an-extraordinary-request/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan Dear friends, The attached bibliography (in page proofs) will be published soon in Continental Philosophy Review, and I hope it will be of some use to all in the Heidegger Forum. When it appears I will email it to all the members in a text-manipulable form that you can up-date
- [A question about ϕύσις](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/a-question-about-ϕύσις/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan Dear friends,Given recent discussions of this crucial topic, could anyone in the forum help clarify the relations, distinctions, and/or differences among the following, according to Heidegger?Thanks very much.Tom _______________________________________________________ 1. in Heraclitus 2. in ancient Greece apart from Heraclitus, when it refers to both 2.1 all Seiendes and 2.2 the Sein of all Seiendes3. in Aristotle _______________________________________________________
- [A question to Richard Capobianco: Which ἀλήϑεια and ϕύσις = "the thing itself"?](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/a-question-to-richard-capobianco-which-ἀλήϑεια-and-ϕύσις-the-thing-itself/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan Dear Richard,You recently wrote that when Heidegger spoke of Being itself, "he put other names for the Ur-matter into play as well: physis, aletheia [etc.]." But each of those two terms has a spectrum of very different meanings in the Greeks. Heidegger, to be sure, knew which specific meanings he
- [a step back](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/a-step-back/) - The ground of ek-sistence is the clearing of being effected by ek-sistence that belongs to it as having its self thereby. This clearing(-concealing) is un-concealment as access and exposure to entities. The clearing of being, un-concealment, is no different from being as the temporal element of possibility. All three are the same. Yet isn't un-concealment
- [a significant detail from "The Origin of the Work of Art"](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/a-significant-detail-from-the-origin-of-the-work-of-art/) - Dear Forum, Not only does the work of art instigate the strife between world and earth it is also the ground of this strife, in-stance of the rift that brings the earth into the united outline (of the rift). To work out what the ground of the strife was was tricky as I thought it might be un-concealment,
- [A small matter of style...](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/a-small-matter-of-style/) - Written By: Richard Hammond Greetings all, Would anyone care to comment on their choice of -- or direct me towards compelling arguments for -- the anglophone rendering of physis vs. phusis? Mundane? Yes. Helpful? Absolutely. Thanks in advance,Richard H. Hammond.
- [a scholarly misquote and a chance for a breakthrough?](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/a-scholarly-misquote-and-a-chance-for-a-breakthrough/) - Dear Forum, At least in the ebook Interpreting Heidegger p116 Charles Guignon misquotes Terry Pinkard. He writes of Pinkard's paradox "typical of modernity" misquoting Pinkard: 'one must recognize "that what counts as leading one's own life and therefore choosing and acknowledging the value of that which one chooses cannot always be the result of one's choosing it, while at the same
- [a small step](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/a-small-step/) - Dear Forum, Studying "The Question Concerning Technology" and "The Turning" all becomes clear. One has to move from prior (concealed?) appropriation to the express appropriation of the clearing. Is this an acceptance of appropriation, i.e., that one belongs to the essence (of technology)? Joy and best wishes Andrew Price Sent from Windows Mail
- [A slight clarification of the post to Laurence](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/a-slight-clarification-of-the-post-to-laurence/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan Dear Laurence: I should have been more clear: When you write that "every specific and so present being is 'Da' -- here, in being, in existence,"is one right in understanding that a.the word "being" corresponds to Hd's neologism "das Seiende"? Tom On Fri, Jan 8, 2016 at 12:56 PM, Thomas
- [A question to Richard and Larry about Seyn is/is not Da-sein](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/a-question-to-richard-and-larry-about-seyn-is-is-not-da-sein/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan Dear Larry and Richard, Thanks, and two points: 1.This is a line of argument that seems to say that Seyn = Bezug = Da-sein. Seyn = Ereignis = the Bezug of Seyn and Da-sein.But this Bezug isn't a relation between two relata: it is Seyn. "Der Bezug ist
- [A question to Richard Capobianco about Being before there was Dasein](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/a-question-to-richard-capobianco-about-being-before-there-was-dasein/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan Dear Richard, Before one gets to the interesting from GA 6, 2 that you cite: Say that one accepts the thesis (datum non concessum)that Being is dependent of Da-sein, may one ask you about the first of your two positions? viz., (1)be-ing is independent of the human being (that is,
- [a question on Hd's German](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/a-question-on-hds-german/) - Written By: Arkadi Choufrine Dear all-- Sometimes I encounter construction: "in das Da begegnen" (e.g., SZ 366; GA64 43). How common is it in German to have begnen + in + Akkuzativ (rather than Dativ)? I failed to find it elsewhere, and even in Hd only with "das Da". Thanks for any help. ~Arkadi
- [A response to Nate, Reg, Richard, and Greg](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/a-response-to-nate-reg-richard-and-greg/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan Dear friends, I am grateful for these four very thoughtful critiques of my text. In the attached file I attempt to respond to them. Because I'm up to my earlobes in other work, I'm afraid this will have to be my last response (for now) on this important topic. Nonetheless,
- [A response to Reg Lilly](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/a-response-to-reg-lilly/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan Many thanks, Reg lots of good stuff here, and best wishes for your writing project on trauma. I hope you won t mind if I respond intersticially. One important note: No, definitely not Heidegger s advocate. Rather: I spent decades trying to simply understand him so that, like
- [A question to Arkadi](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/a-question-to-arkadi/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan Dear Arkadi, With regard to the questions you have been posing, does any of the following seem at least plausible? Tom 1.In metaphysics, Sein is the inseity of things – their
- [A thank you note](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/a-thank-you-note/) - Written By: Richard Hammond Hello all, I just wanted to offer a brief thank you - although this 'thank you' is largely a thinly veiled excuse for me to announce my news - to the circle for some of the interesting discussions I've witnessed and/or been involved in through the years. I have just
- [A selection of letters between Martin and Fritz Heidegger](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/a-selection-of-letters-between-martin-and-fritz-heidegger/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan Dear friends, Attached is a PDF of selected letters exchanged between Martin and Fritz Heidegger. Regards, Tom Attachments-406/BRIEFE MARTIN FRITZ.pdf
- [A response to Richard Capobianco's "The Horror"](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/a-response-to-richard-capobiancos-the-horror/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan Thomas Sheehan has shared a OneDrive for Business file with you. To view it, click the link below. Response to R Capobianco's _The Horror_ 31 May 2017.docx Dear friends, (Orwell's "Two minutes of hate"? Oh my!) I attach a respond to two of Richard Capobianco's main points in "The Horror." His
- [A question about the text at GA 9 that Richard Capobianco cited and Richard Polt commented on](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/a-question-about-the-text-at-ga-9-that-richard-capobianco-cited-and-richard-polt-commented-on/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan Dear Richard C. and Richard P. (and anyone else who cares to jump in), I think you both are right: the phrase I cited does not significantly change the phrase that Richard C. quoted. Heidegger does indeed say that the clearing/truth of Being is not exhausted in Dasein. That stumps me. So my
- [A short text attached](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/a-short-text-attached/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan Dear friends, Attached is a short text on transcendentalism and Heidegger. I welcome any criticisms or suggestions on how to improve it. Regards, Tom Attachments-405/WHY and HOW HEIDEGGER ABANDONED TRANSCENDENTALISM.pdf
- [A somewhat complex paragraph (resolved by Sister Constantia)](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/a-somewhat-complex-paragraph-resolved-by-sister-constantia/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan . .Dear friends,An Italian colleague sent me an article on the Black Notebooks, which he found online, that opens with a reference to the "paradigm shift": "In a world of Heidegger studies so becalmed that the Heidegger Circle in the United States spends its time on the Internet debating Tom
- [A response, and a final request, to Richard Capobianco](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/a-response-and-a-final-request-to-richard-capobianco/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan Dear Richard [C.], As far as I can see, you are wrong on all six points. If only you could believe that I am not trying to "whip" you, as you claim, but simply trying to (1) figure out what Heidegger was saying and (2) get you to dialogue about
- [A summation of Heidegger's thinking](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/a-summation-of-heideggers-thinking/) - Here's an interesting text from the latest published volume of Black Notebooks, GA 98. (I don't have a copy yet, but a friend shared this page with me.) The summation of my thinking It consists in the simple step out of presentative thinking to thinking that moves on a path. The step goes backwards---but not
- [a wreath?](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/a-wreath/) - Dear Forum, I was getting bogged down in "The Origin of the Work of Art" looking at the instances of Sammlung, versammeln and zusammen. It all seemed a bit beyond easy reach... However, if there is anything in a gathering of flowers, an antho-logia, being appropriate to a victory of strife of earth and world
- [A question concerning Lichtung](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/a-question-concerning-lichtung/) - Written By: William Britt Dear Forum, I think this is a question about how to link up earlier and later Heidegger (Temporalitat and Seinsgeschichte/Wahrheitsgeschichte). Does it make more sense to say that for Heidegger there are different clearings, one (or some) of which is presence (Anwesenheit)? Or to say that clearing is something like
- [a quick translation puzzle](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/a-quick-translation-puzzle/) - Written By: William Britt Dear Forum, Can anyone help me with this sentence? It's from GA 73.1: 746, although I think that's irrelevant. Dies innig verbergende Bergen, als welches das Geheimnis im Ereignis west, ist die Ruhe des Seyns, die dem Ged chtnis ihre gesparte Bewegung des Aufgehens und Untergehens gelichtet berantwortet. My problem
- [All Things Shining](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/all-things-shining/) - Written By: Bricker, Jeffrey Dear Forum Members, In the 1920s Heidegger used the Greek term phainesthai in such crucial places as section 9 of History of the Concept of Time and in section 7 of Being & Time. In both instances he employs it to help clarify how his sense of phenomenology differs from
- [All Things Shining ( yet again)](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/all-things-shining-yet-again/) - Written By: Bricker, Jeffrey Dear Forum Members, Many thanks to all those who found the time to respond to my posting of last Sunday. So what have we learned? First, that the topic of phainesthia (the self-showing radiance of all that is) is apparently not as interesting as the topic of aletheia (unconcealedness). This
- [Amoebas](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/amoebas/) - Written By: Gregory Fried Dear Tom, Trust you to ask another seemingly innocent question! "When Heidegger declares that being [das Sein] "presences" beings (GA 15: 363.24-26 = 59.3-4: "das Sein l t das Seiende anwesen"), is he saying that being "presenced" amoebas during the Proterozoic era, two billion years ago before homo sapiens?" The
- [Amoebas Exchange](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/amoebas-exchange/) - Written By: Bricker, Jeffrey Dear Forum Members, I’ve enjoyed the recent postings, especially the lucid one from Professor Fried (why does he post so rarely?). All I have to contribute are two small points: 1)Recent postings have reminded me that confusion arises because Heidegger uses the term “world” inconsistently. Usually he is describing
- [ANOTHER TEXT: SEIN/SINN](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/another-text-sein-sinn/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan Dear friends,Another text where Heidegger affirms that das Sein des Seienden = der Sinn des Seienden:(1)SZ 35.25 = 59.31: Being as the phenomenological phenomenon is the “Sinn und Grund” of entities; and (2)there is nothing to be experienced of Sein other than as the Sinn des Seienden: “’Hinter’
- [Affirming the (Ontological) Difference](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/affirming-the-ontological-difference/) - Just a gathering of recent posts on this topic: (1) Richard P.'s passage is very helpful in reminding us that the only matter that Heidegger wanted to "overcome" was the "difference" as it was traditionally understood in the metaphysical tradition (the "difference" between a being and its beingness/presence/eidos/essentia). But, Heidegger never disavowed (indeed he affirmed)
- [Advice](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/advice/) - Hi all. I have been following the engrossing discussion on Ereignis, being,etc. I would point people toward my remarks in my review of Richard C's book in Gatherings 1. On a somewhat different note I want to take advantage of this group to ask a question about a project of mine. I am beginning a
- [After Heidegger](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/after-heidegger/) - Written By: Javier Vargas Hello Heidegger Circle members, My name is Javier, I'm an older undergraduate student at Miami Dade College in South Florida. I have been reading Heidegger and Heideggerian authors for a little over a decade. I have a question on Heidegger to which I would love hear what members have to
- [All that is necessary to know about Marx!](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/all-that-is-necessary-to-know-about-marx/) - Written By: Marx is a button, button question. Whose got the Marx? (Did someone suggest a period of benign neglect?
- [Amber Alert](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/amber-alert/) - Written By: Does anybody know where Brendan Mahoney is? I wonder why we haven't gotten around to discussing the rather provocative thesis he presented at the Forum in New Haven (for which he was rather provocatively, if not to say 'viciously' attacked) as to whether or whether not the 'fourfold' can be thought back
- [ANIMAL DASEIN?](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/animal-dasein/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan Dear Babette, I've always thought that Heidegger restricted the term Dasein (in his sense of the word) to human beings, i.e., the entities who alone understand Being. Are there any texts in the GA or elsewhere where he extends the term to animals and/or to the gods? Thanks. --Tom You wrote: "It
- [About that “international Jewish conspiracy”](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/about-that-international-jewish-conspiracy/) - Written By: Gary E Davis According to an April posting here, from Adam Knowles, explicating Trawny's notion of "seinsgeschichtlicher Antisemitismus," Trawny "bases" his claim that "Heidegger believed in a world Jewish conspiracy...on a statement Heidegger made to Jaspers." That's not news about Jaspers, of course. But it's amazing that, evidently (according to Knowles), Trawny
- [Accent both syllables, hyphenated!](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/accent-both-syllables-hyphenated/) - Written By: ERIC J SANDBERG The key seems to be this beast 'Da'-'sein.' What is this event of appropriation? How, or ask 'as' what, does be-ing appropriate Da-'sein?' (Roughly human being) There are a number of intimations throughout the "Beitrage." Arguably, be-ing as its 'own' truth as 'time-space' ('Da'-sein), appropriates Da-'sein' in two fold
- [Aletheia](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/aletheia/) - Dear Jeff and all, Jeff, you mention that Heidegger "Heidegger annoyed many of his readers by using 'truth' as synonymous with 'unconcealment' " -- and you are right, a number of commentators have got hot under the collar over the year with Heidegger's translation of althetheia as 'unconcealment'. I've never understood this annoyance, except as
- [Aletheia as/is Being In the First Place](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/aletheia-as-is-being-in-the-first-place/) - Hello, Ian and all, Welcome to the HF. I well recall our conversation at the Collegium a couple of years ago, and our email exchange regarding Aristotle on Metaphysics Theta 10. You will find that reference on pp. 11-13 of the new book. But in all the helpful recent discussion of aletheia on the Forum,
- [About Jeff's and Laurence's recent posts](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/about-jeffs-and-laurences-recent-posts/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan Dear Jeff and Laurence: Jeff wrote: It's not important, but I should acknowledge that I am one of those people who never like the phrase "the truth of being". What is important is that Professor Heidegger liked it. Professor Wrathall has a suggestion about why this was the case on
- [Agamben on Seinsgeschichte](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/agamben-on-seinsgeschichte/) - Written By: antoniouk Dear all, Hope this email finds you well. In his last book of the 'Homo Sacer project', published last September by Neri Pozza, Giorgio Agamben deeply engages, for the very first time, with Heidegger's work. More specifically, in Part II of his work, Agamben traces what he calls an 'Archeology of
- [Agamben on Seinsgeschichte (II)](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/agamben-on-seinsgeschichte-ii/) - Written By: antoniouk Dear all, Many thanks for your kind messages, suggestions, and comments on my previous email. I really appreciate them. I would like to clarify my understanding of Agamben's ideas against the backdrop of Heidegger's Seinsgeschichte.As far as I can see, Agamben's "archeology of ontology" maintains that a "universal" process (anthropogenesis) has
- [Abandoning being . . .](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/abandoning-being/) - Dear Eric (especially) and all, There is a tendency in much contemporary thinking to take a comment from the margins (like those at Le Thor, or the Heraclitus Seminar with Eugen Fink) and extrapolate an entire hermeneutic from them. Heidegger himself to some extent did this, but only to some extent, and actually (I think)
- [Ah "The Origin of the Work of Art"!](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/ah-the-origin-of-the-work-of-art/) - With respect. In my desire to work and my, by now becoming an obsession, interest in Contributions to Philosophy could anybody help me with the "enstrifing" Ereignung (270)? I can't go on in the dead letters office. P.S. I'm happy to ground Dasein if you would prefer.
- [Ah, this one is for you, Babette. Good luck.](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/ah-this-one-is-for-you-babette-good-luck/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 12:00 PM, Babette Babich wrote: Yet another call to Major Tom! On Monday, March 30, 2015, Andrew Price wrote: With respect. In my desire to work and my, by now becoming an obsession, interest in Contributions to Philosophy could anybody help me
- [abyssal ground](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/abyssal-ground/) - Roughly, in section 242 of Contributions of Philosophy Heidegger would "fathom the abyssal ground" and detect "that which [...] is called god". At this moment we would be able to leave the abyssal ground with the event secure (as consigning god to human and assigning human to god, section 7). The event would be the primordial
- [agnostic agony and ecstasy](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/agnostic-agony-and-ecstasy/) - One can pray to a god that needs be-ing and receive an answer. But the last god is concealed by "every discrete "space" and every demarcated flowing-by of time." Contributions to Philosophy 242 "Only where something objectively present is seized and determined does there arise the flow of "time" that flows by in it
- [Ah ! quelle delicatesse ! M. Faye’s acolytes strike back.](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/ah-quelle-delicatesse-m-fayes-acolytes-strike-back/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan To members of the Heidegger Circle Dear friendsHerewith a typical response to the forthcoming article "Emmanuel Faye: The Introduction of Fraud into Philosophy?" It comes from one Mathieu Marion, professor of philosophy, Universit du Qu bec Montr al, who specializes in philosophy of mathematics, logic, and Wittgenstein. Best regards, Tom
- [Agreed, Richard: no more Whac-a-Mole](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/agreed-richard-no-more-whac-a-mole/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan Dear Richard,I agree: enough is enough. You'll remember that we privately called off our public exchange last year, even though you continued to attach my work in the Forum. Which was OK---even better than OK!---so long as you agree to debate the issues. I thought that was what the Forum
- [Absolute particularization](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/absolute-particularization/) - Written By: ERIC J SANDBERG That Heidegger is slouched to the idea of be-ing as absolute particularization can be seen, too, in the movement in his thinking of Ereignis from the "Beitrage" to "Time and Being." In the "Beitrage," Heidegger characterizes Ereignis as 'event' of appropriation. But that . . . the blooming of
- [Absolute particularization: Particularizing 'characterization'](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/absolute-particularization-particularizing-characterization/) - Written By: ERIC J SANDBERG As speculated earlier, perhaps the whole chiasmic 'structure' (figure of 'turning' [of be-ing] in Heidegger, that's not the kehre.) is needed to wrest what I would from late Heidegger. So "Particularization out of characterization as characterizing is to (the) particular" where particular and characteristic are thought of as belonging
- [About Heidegger's handwriting](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/about-heideggers-handwriting/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan Dear friends, A while ago one of the colleagues mentioned wanting to learn more about Heidegger's handwriting. I'm very late in responding. I've recently acquired a book, Deciphering Handwriting in German Documents (from GRE in Provo, Utah) in hopes that it would go into S tterling handwriting, and it does,
- [am wondering...](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/am-wondering/) - Written By: Arkadi Choufrine What could encourage one to jump into the mysteries of "beYng" not having digested, first, every page of SZ? To me it looks like aspiring to advance in rocket science without learning arithmetic.
- [Agon](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/agon/) - Written By: ERIC J SANDBERG Andrew: The "Beitrage" is the book that I'll never be through with. I may have a copy cremated with me at my . . . 'demise.' LOL But I was taking some notes out when I realized that the God's stand very much in relation to 'be-ing' as death
- [Alan Rickman and Authenticity](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/alan-rickman-and-authenticity/) - Written By: Babette Babich Greetings from snow dusted Berlin! I have just heard the sad news, via Jean Grondin, of the death of the hermeneutics scholar, particularly insightful on the hermeneutics of economics,but also author of a recent study on Suffering, Gary Brent Madison has died. For another off topic, off current topoi, I
- [An (urgent) query](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/an-urgent-query/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan Dear friends, Unfortunately I've misplaced my copy of Emmanuel Faye's edited collection Heidegger. Le sol, la communaut , la race. I urgently need to reread G. P gny's chapter in the collection, entitled "Verit et mythe dans [GA 34]." The reason: P gny defends Faye (and attacks the undersigned) in
- [Again: I have no idea who this San José fellow (imposter!!) might be.](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/again-i-have-no-idea-who-this-san-jose-fellow-imposter-might-be/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan On Thu, Apr 7, 2016 at 8:30 AM, Christopher Ruth wrote: What does this mean? I was asked to link to TS too, and accepted, as I don't really use Linkeldn and always accept invitations if I recognize the name, out of a sense of politeness or something. Is
- [action and passion of "truth" (after a day off with a fever)](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/action-and-passion-of-truth-after-a-day-off-with-a-fever/) - Dear Forum, Thanks to Professors Babich and Sheehan, thanks to Ellis D. "Does truth, then, arise out of nothing? It does indeed if by nothing we mean the sheer "not" of beings and if we here think of the being as something at hand in the ordinary way, which thereafter comes to light and is challenged
- [ATTACHED: Becoming Heidegger, pdf](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/attached-becoming-heidegger-pdf/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan Dear friends, After Northwestern U.P.let the book go out of print -- due to the threat of a law suit by Prof. John Van Buren (Ted Kisiel can provide the awful details about that threat) -- Burt Hopkins reprinted it (same pages, etc.). A copy is attached. Tom Attachments-402/1 BECOMING
- [about thinking](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/about-thinking/) - Dear Forum, Here is a Heidegger inspired thesis: world determines thinking. Thus world is the principle and thinking second. The determination in question would determine thinking overall through mood and in particular according to whatever proceedings are required or undertaken. Is it fair to say that thinking is contingent? Strictly speaking, I dare say, thinking is the occurrence of hitherto
- [about action](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/about-action/) - Courage is a significant bridge to action. However, thinking, the occurrence of hitherto unforeseeable possibilities, can also mean discouragement. Does thinking always give way to courage or loss of heart? Thinking receives its initial determination. Isn't courage or the heart its following secondary determination? (What does this have to do with Heidegger? Well resolve is a synonym of courage. However,
- [APA satellite session chair needed](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/apa-satellite-session-chair-needed/) - Dear HC members, We need a volunteer to chair our satellite session at the January 2018 Eastern APA meeting. As usual, this involves introducing the speakers and calling on audience members who have questions. If you are interested, please send me an e-mail. thanks, Richard Polt
- [about Da-sein as well as transformation](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/about-da-sein-as-well-as-transformation/) - What, I wonder, is the relation of die Kehre to die Einrichtung der Wahrheit? Die Bergung der Wahrheit, which is the same as die Bewahrung, is an intrinsic part of the originary turning as described in Contributions to Philosophy section 255. Is die Einrichtung an Ereignung des Da? In "The Origin of the Work of Art" the creation
- [Again: Which ἀλήθεια? Which ϕύσις?](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/again-which-ἀλήθεια-which-ϕύσις/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan Dear Richard, : Two questions still remain unasked and unanswered in your work: 1. Which of the at least five senses of and the three senses of (which Heidegger discusses in his work) do you mean? 2. Are the that Parmenides discusses and the that Heraclitus mentions the same as
- [Adding to Shane Ewegen's comments on GA 55 Heraklit](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/adding-to-shane-ewegens-comments-on-ga-55-heraklit/) - Shane's posts on GA 55 Heraklit are important. This volume is long-overdue for translation into English, and Shane and his colleague Julia Assaiante are at work completing a translation for publication. We all look forward to it! GA 55 Heraklit is of great importance, and I have discussed the two lecture courses at length in
- [ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND ART](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/artificial-intelligence-and-art/) - https://news.artnet.com/market/9-artists-artificial-intelligence-1384207?utm_content=from_artnetnews&utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=US%2010%3A05%20a.m.%20newsletter%20for%2011%2F6%2F18&utm_term=New%20US%20Newsletter%20List
- [about inception](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/about-inception/) - Dear Forum, I should perhaps steer clear of GA65 and stick to "The Origin of the Work of Art". Having said this there do seem to be connections... One such connection is a concern with das Seiende at the root of both works. In "OWA" the grounding required by the being as as whole (earth
- [Advise on "natural reason"](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/advise-on-natural-reason/) - Dear All: I am sure many of you will be aware of a famous passage in Spinoza's Theologico-Political Treatise on common reason or natural reason, which of course is not irrelevant to the current situation. This is the passage: "Acting on command, that is, from obedience, does take away liberty in some sense, but
- [An opaque paragraph in Being and Time](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/an-opaque-paragraph-in-being-and-time/) - Written By: Richard Polt [From the old Heidegger Circle Forum.] An opaque paragraph in B&T.... by jeff bricker Sun Dec 07, 2008 11:36 pm Near the conclusion of the second introduction to B&T we are told that Being is the transcendens pure and simple. This remark is on page 62 of the M&R translation
- [An Outline](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/an-outline/) - Written By: Wing Yi So Dear friends and colleagues, I am about to write an essay that would be named 'Being and Writing'. This is a treatise into the meaning of Being-------- how Heidegger's and Hegel's account of Being is insufficient to explicate the meaning of Being. The other philosophers, I suppose, have not
- [Another quick note for Nate](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/another-quick-note-for-nate/) - Written By: Bricker, Jeffrey Hi Nate, I’ve been reading a book by Mark Wrathall called Heidegger and Unconcealment (Cambridge, 2011) and he uses the expression “dasein’s comportment” a lot. I wonder if this expression can be toyed with somehow to avoid the too-cognitive connotation of “intelligibility”. Just a thought. Cheers, Jeff Bricker
- [Another Reply to Sheehan: What Is Ereignis? If Not Nothing...](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/another-reply-to-sheehan-what-is-ereignis-if-not-nothing/) - Written By: eric d. meyer Dear Prof. Sheehan: I've got a completely different take on your crypto-Marxist critique of "Ereignis" as not "concrete-material-historical" etc. enough. I don't see where to send it on HC so I'll just briefly share with you & the group. It's certainly possible to see MH's "Ereignis" as empty of
- [Another koan out of the Beitrage](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/another-koan-out-of-the-beitrage/) - Written By: Da-sein(ing) da-seins inabiding dasein as abyssal ground of the truth of being.
- [Answering The Question: Are Martin Heidegger & Panpsychism Compatibles?](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/answering-the-question-are-martin-heidegger-panpsychism-compatibles/) - Written By: eric d. meyer Dear Heidegger Circle: If I may take advantage of this lull on the Heidegger Circle blog-line and be so crass as to answer my own question from a few months ago: I've found at least one essay from the Anglo-American analytic school that makes a "Heideggerian" argument for what's
- [Another Addition to The Heidegger Controversy? From Prospect Magazine, Great Britain](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/another-addition-to-the-heidegger-controversy-from-prospect-magazine-great-britain/) - Written By: eric d. meyer Dear Heideggerians: Here's another addition to the latest version of "The Heidegger Controversy." Comments, anyone? Eric D. Meyer Blogs PoliticsEconomics WorldScience Arts & BooksThink Tanks IssueThe List SUBSCRIPTIONS Heidegger and Nazism redux: error and apology by Jonathan Derbyshire/January 28, 2014/1 Comment Before Christmas, I blogged about the
- [An Idealism of One Kind or Another](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/an-idealism-of-one-kind-or-another/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan Dear Ricard (C.), Thanks for your mail. I'm out most of today but will be happy to respond asap when I return. All the best, Tom Thomas Sheehan Stanford University Stanford, CA 94305-2165 650 723-3322http://religiousstudies.stanford.edu/people/tom-sheehan/
- [Anti-Semitic Episodes in Die Schwarze Heften?: The Heidegger Case Goes On..](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/anti-semitic-episodes-in-die-schwarze-heften-the-heidegger-case-goes-on/) - Written By: eric d. meyer Dear Heideggerians: As somebody who objects to the un-lawyerly conduct of "The Heidegger Case" by the contemporary international scholarly community, in which the defendant, one M___ H___, a German citizen, now deceased, is frequently accused, prosecuted, tried, and convicted on third hand hearsay evidence (..."Ernst Cassirer's wife, Toni, was
- [any answers](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/any-answers/) - "truth sways in the fullest and richest clearing of the remotest self-sheltering-concealing and only in the manner of sheltering, according to all ways and manners that belong to this sheltering and that historically bear and guide the inabiding sustaining of Da-sein and so make up being-a-people" (Contributions to Philosophy 243) What does unconcealment mean? Do
- [anyone for dense?](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/anyone-for-dense/) - If Heidegger is using or deploying gods in Contributions to Philosophy it is not primarily in the name of justice but of unconcealment. It is the unconcealment of the "truth of be-ing," the open or the Da that I dare say is being founded on gods, although according to Heidegger Da-sein stands "unsupported and unprotected downward
- [Another key text from Notebook GA 94](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/another-key-text-from-notebook-ga-94/) - Hello, all, Here is another highly instructive text from GA 94 that speaks to Heidegger's turn from the analytic of Dasein in BT to the thinking of Beyng/Being itself/the truth of Being in the later work. It is dated from 1934-35. Heidegger is struggling to realize his goal of bringing to language his "fundamental experience" of "the predominancy of Being" before all beings, including
- [an encounter with The Idea of the Holy](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/an-encounter-with-the-idea-of-the-holy/) - A question recurs in my studies. It occurred yesterday as I went about the business of fathoming what might or does commend blessing. It is the old chesnut: what is good? On this occasion I was not left dumbstruck but was able to venture the answer: the holy. And the holy would no doubt, by
- [Anti-semitism](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/anti-semitism/) - Written By: ERIC J SANDBERG Has anyone speculated that what is going on with Heidegger studies a la Faye might not have Heidegger, per se, in its aim? Can Europe -- at least Germany -- have succumbed to what I call the Normalien Dynamis whereby the peculiarly French Oedipal gesture of killing the 'patriarch'
- [An American philosopher's dialogue with Heidegger](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/an-american-philosophers-dialogue-with-heidegger/) - Attached is an unpublished account by American philosopher Henry Bugbee of his visit to Heidegger in 1965. This text is kindly provided by my colleague David Rodick. It will appear in his anthology of Bugbee's writings, forthcoming from Fordham, tentatively titled Exploring Waters of Manifold Voice: The Experiential Philosophy of Henry G. Bugbee, Jr. Richard
- [an amusing theme?](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/an-amusing-theme/) - Dear Forum, This may sound odd but I am 'looking for history'. I have today read lecture twelve of the The Principle of Reason, which bowled me over and allowed me to take a step in the direction of history: the actual comes to light within the possible and the possible is ordained in a destining, a
- [another disturbing trait of Dreyfus approach](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/another-disturbing-trait-of-dreyfus-approach/) - Written By: Arkadi Choufrine They seem to be in a fierce denial of the possibility that, when Heidegger speaks of being-towards-death, he really means DEATH. What an unbearably "morbid" a thought for a successful middle-class "self-realizer" ....
- [An attempt at interpreting GA 97: 175.12-15](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/an-attempt-at-interpreting-ga-97-175-12-15/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan Dear Arkadi, It seems that your question pertains to the sentence at GA 97: 175.12-15. Below I attempt an interpretation of it. Tom Heidegger's sentence: 1. Der Name [Da-sein] 2. denkt das Wesende 3. worin das Menschsein beruht 4. und dieses Wesende, dieses "Sein" als Da-sein 5. "ist" in sich
- [Animals and evolution](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/animals-and-evolution/) - But if animals are not open clearings in their essential structure, how could they survive in the world of nature? David Kleinberg-Levin (DKL) I think your question, as posed above, is easily answered, David. Viruses, fungi, bacteria, and plants survive and reproduce quite well in the natural world, and there is no good reason to
- [An exchange with Antonio Cerella, attached.](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/an-exchange-with-antonio-cerella-attached/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan Dear friends, Antonio Cerella (lecturer at the University of Central Lancashire) and I have been exchanging emails outside the listserve. Recently his answers to two questions struck me as well worth sharing. I attach that exchange. Best regards, Tom Attachments-399/An exchange with Antonio Cerella.pdf
- [Another query, about GA 34 = The Essence of Truth (SS 1933)](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/another-query-about-ga-34-the-essence-of-truth-ss-1933/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan Dear friends, May I ask anyone who knows GA 34 better than I do (= The Essence of Truth, SS 1933): Does Heidegger, in discussing the allegory of the cave, make any references, or say anything, that might lead an auditor to sense he's drawing a political lesson from the
- [an attempt to understand a sentence from section 65 B&T](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/an-attempt-to-understand-a-sentence-from-section-65-bt/) - Authentically zukuenftig existence ist authentically gewesen. Why the second "authentically"? Is it something to do with zukuenftig existence reaching itself? Existence in general als seiendes comes always already to itself. Zukuenftig existence can 'be' its ownmost 'as it already was', that is, its 'Gewesen'. Existence in general is as I 'am' gewesen and thus can come zurueck. Authentically zukuenftig existence 'is' authentically gewesen.
- [An explanation of that last mail](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/an-explanation-of-that-last-mail/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan Dear friends, I tried to send a pdf of Heidegger's lecture "Des heiligen Augustinus Betrachtung ber die Zeit. Confessiones XI," delivered to the monks, priests, and novices at the Archabbey of St. Martin in Beuron on Sunday, 26 October 1930. I misspelled "abbey" as "abby," and I was correcting that.
- [Animality and Heidegger](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/animality-and-heidegger/) - Written By: batukan78 Dear Colleagues, I'm a new member of the H. Circle. I preferred to wait for some time (I think around 6 months),read your posts and comments to be able to understand your daily "jargon". As a small contribution, I would like to include my work concerning "Animality and Heidegger".It is a
- [An apology to Richard Capobianco](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/an-apology-to-richard-capobianco/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan Dear friends, The following is part of an email that I sent to Richard Capobianco this morning. With his permission, I share it with the Forum. Tom Dear Richard,I am writing to apologize to you, both professionally and personally, for having stepped over the line in our public correspondence since
- [An important follow-up to DKL's question](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/an-important-follow-up-to-dkls-question/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan Dear David, I see that I missed an important element of your question. If I read you aright, you were asking, "What's the relation between an always-already-opened clearing and a historically conditioned clearing?" Did I get that righty? Here's my understanding, and like so many other issues, it hinges on
- [An oldie but still informative: Faye - Fedier debate, 2007](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/an-oldie-but-still-informative-faye-fedier-debate-2007/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan Attached. Attachments-398/HEIDEGGER DEBATE 2007 FRENCH TV.docx
- [Another photo of Bill Richardson's 96th birthday.](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/another-photo-of-bill-richardsons-96th-birthday/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan Dear friends The attached photo does not show the generous glass of Jameson, neat, just beyond the left margin. Is there anyone -- "pagan or Presbyterian alike," as Melville would say -- whom Bill couldn't drink under the table and still be as clear as Socrates at the end of
- [An online guide to texts by and on Heidegger](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/an-online-guide-to-texts-by-and-on-heidegger/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan Dear friends, No doubt many of you already know of this online guide to texts by and on Heidegger. https://www.ub.uni-freiburg.de/recherche/personenportale/martin-heidegger/wegweiser-heidegger/ Regards, Tom -- Thomas SheehanStanford Universityhttp://religiousstudies.stanford.edu/people/tom-sheehan/publications/
- [An update on Bill Richardson](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/an-update-on-bill-richardson/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan Richard Kearney, Bill's colleague and very close friend sends this. (Peg is Bill's sister, who died a short while ago.) Dear friends. Just a word, on foot of Jeff's update, to say that Anne and I visited Bill last night and that he was very much at peace. Although he
- [Another shoe drops: Martin's letters to Fritz](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/another-shoe-drops-martins-letters-to-fritz/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan Dear friends, https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/heidegger-anti-semitism-yet-correspondence-philosopher-brother-fritz-heidegger-exposed/#! Tom
- [Anthropocentrism in Being and Time](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/anthropocentrism-in-being-and-time/) - It is often said that the later Heidegger turned away from Being and Time because of its anthropocentrism. It is not self-evident to me that anthropocentrism is necessarily something detrimental to be eschewed. I suggest instead that such a judgment depends on the work s context of use. For example, I fell in love with
- [And yet Heidegger says that his concern is with Being as such](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/and-yet-heidegger-says-that-his-concern-is-with-being-as-such/) - When I offered the line from Heidegger's letter, I did not gloss it in any way; I simply wanted to bring it to the attention of all the members for consideration. Tom has now glossed it and highly polished it in his way, which is fine. I have addressed the implications of lines like this
- [an interesting text](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/an-interesting-text/) - Dear Forum, Avidly following the discussion I can't help but wonder whether there isn't a way of interpreting Da-sein in Contributions to Philosophy which goes against a simple existentiel/existential distinction. My grounds for such wonderment are this text from the beginning of section 202:"Only as historical is the human being the "there," i.e., only as grounding of history and
- [Another view of Ereignis and transformation](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/another-view-of-ereignis-and-transformation/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan Dear James, At the risk (I realize) of repetition, in what follows I briefly summarize my own position, which, in light of the following texts, seems to be Heidegger's position. I argue that Hd holds this position to the end. Tom 1. "Ereignis" and Er-eignung are the later Hd's reinscription
- [And God created Sartre](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/and-god-created-sartre/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan Dear friends, For a change of pace: Pico has God address the newly created Adam --- or is it Jean-Paul Sartre? (Below, the Latin, with a poor attempt at bringing it into English---improvements welcome.) Tom [1]Nec certam sedem, nec propriam faciem, nec munus ullum peculiare tibi dedimus, o Adam, [2]ut
- [Another text on the clearing itself](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/another-text-on-the-clearing-itself/) - Consider another text (in addition to the others I have offered) where Heidegger states that the human being is not identical with the clearing; that is, the clearing itself is Being which grants the human being: "From out of this essence of the human being we first experience wherein the Greek of the "Greek human
- [An Interview With Geoff Bennington](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/an-interview-with-geoff-bennington/) - Dear All: I am enclosing the proofs of the interview with Bennington diacritics will publish because I think it addresses some very significant issues for contemporary thought where Heidegger and Heideggerianism have much to say. I hope some of you at least enjoy it. Thanks, Alberto Attachments-400/45.2_Moreiras_BenningtonPR.pdf
- [Andrew Price's proceedings...](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/andrew-prices-proceedings/) - Written By: Nathaniel Ozunko Thank you Andrew, I appreciate your thoughtful poetic contributions to this group. Get Outlook for Android
- [And speaking of "Recollection in Metaphysics," GA 6.2, 1941...](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/and-speaking-of-recollection-in-metaphysics-ga-6-2-1941/) - Since this text has been recently mentioned, just a brief comment to underscore its significance and challenge. So, for example, Heidegger maintains Being's "pure needlessness" (reine Unbeduerftigkeit) and "independence" (Unabhaengigkeit) in relation to the human being. And we must keep in view his statement that "...Being is never dependent upon existing humanity" (niemals abhaengig vom
- [An Approach to a Problem in the Philosophy of Religion](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/an-approach-to-a-problem-in-the-philosophy-of-religion/) - Dear friends, The following might not be a problem, in the way that I frame it, for anyone but myself. Or if it is a problem, my framing of it might not besufficiently philosophical to be of any value. My situation vaguely resembles Heidegger's "Factically, I am a Christian Theologian," but that admission was in
- [Announcement](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/announcement/) - Written By: Hi all, I hope you will forgive me this piece of shameless self-advertising, but I wanted to let you know that my Heidegger Becoming Phenomenological has just appeared in Rowman and Littlefield's New Heidegger Research series. My thanks to the many of you that had something to do with this. Yours,
- [an idea](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/an-idea/) - Dear Forum, 'Manifestation ought to be celebrated.' Does the above sentence require explanation because I believe it to be important? It seems to me that celebrations are very often understood as the celebration of some thing whereas there is call to celebrate that there is any thing at all, to celebrate manifestation itself and not to
- [an Aristotelian insight](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/an-aristotelian-insight/) - Dear Forum, In "The Question Concerning Technology" Heidegger writes of "the dialogue of divine and human destinings" (Basic Writings 2011 p237). This is a matter, in Aristotelian terms, of sophia and phron sis respectively...! Let's say writing as a poi sis has to fit into one of two telic hierarchies, topped by either sophia or
- [Another perspective: Heidegger, Whitehead, and "God"](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/another-perspective-heidegger-whitehead-and-god/) - For another perspective... As I have outlined in other places, I think it is apparent that there is a philosophical connection between the later Heidegger's thinking on "being" and Whitehead's process metaphysics. I have not tried to claim too much, since one stumbling block is Heidegger's own critique of
- [An Important Talk by Heidegger from 1965](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/an-important-talk-by-heidegger-from-1965/) - Hello, all, I thought that I would provide a link to a very important talk by Heidegger from 1965 that is often overlooked (details regarding the talk in our Translators' Note). In particular, one finds in this talk one of Heidegger's most extensive discussions of his notion of die Lichtung and his crucial "revision" of
- [Aristotle, Heidegger, and Ethics](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/aristotle-heidegger-and-ethics/) - Written By: Richard Polt [From the old Heidegger Circle Forum.] Aristotle, Heidegger and Ethics by Irvin Fri Dec 05, 2008 11:49 pm Regarding Aristotle, Heidegger and ethics, I detect a sharp difference. Aristotle's approach is quintessentially instrumental. Today, Aristotle's "Nicomachean Ethics" might be a media infomational par excellence for social and career success, which
- [apparent quote from Heidegger](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/apparent-quote-from-heidegger/) - Hello, The translator into Polish of the book _Fighting Theory_ has contacted me with the following question. He is interested in finding out which text Avital Ronell is referring to in her essay "Killer Texts" when she writes the following: "Heidegger put it differently when he said that certain texts or statements can destroy you
- [BEING AND BEINGS, TIME AND CLEARING](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/being-and-beings-time-and-clearing/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan Dear Nate,I think 1. that Being is that in terms of which we understand entities (not “that which makes entities be the entities they are,” e.g., that which made amoebas be amoebas way back when, or even now) and 2.that the clearing (which he earlier called “time”: GA
- [BEING AND BEINGS](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/being-and-beings/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan Dear Nate,Yes, entities are certainly out there, bump-up-against-able. But we understand their being –e.g., that, what, and how they are – only insofar as they are inner-worldly, i.e., meaningful. We cannot step outside of being-in-the-world-of-meaning (In-der-Welt/Bedeutsamkeit-sein) and have a look at them in their “naked” state. TomFrom: heideggercircle@googlegroups.com [mailto:heideggercircle@googlegroups.com] On
- [BUMP-UP-AGAINST-ABLE-NESS](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/bump-up-against-able-ness/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan Dear Reg, I agree with Derrida ("the dream of empiricism fades as consciousness dawns") and Heidegger that all our contacts with entities are with entities as meaningful ( ), and therefore that it would take an extraordinarily unusual (if it is possible at all) experience to meet things simply as
- [BUMP-UP-AGAINST-ABLE-NESS-2](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/bump-up-against-able-ness-2/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan Dear Raoni,Thanks for this message, which, like all your postings, both clarifies things and raises important question. One could add many other texts to the list of those you cite. For example: "The being-in-themselves of things becomes not only unexplainable without the existence of humans but also utterly meaningless. But
- [BUMP-UP-AGAINST-ABLE-NESS-3](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/bump-up-against-able-ness-3/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan Dear Tom, To directly answer your question, as to how we know what is asserted here and elsewhere in Heidegger, namely, that entities outstrip their meaningful existence and exist in themselves: we cannot know that this is the case without reintroducing the question into the domain of meaningfulness, that is,
- [BEING IS MEANINGFULNESS: TEXTS](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/being-is-meaningfulness-texts/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan Dear friends,Just to confirm Ted Kisiel's "be-ing is meaningfulness" here are some citations, chosen at random from the earliest lecture courses and writings of Heidegger. --Tom1.The category of meaningfulness indicates how objects are in life according to the basic sense of their content and how they hold themselves and
- [BIBLIOGRAPHY -- GA AND ET](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/bibliography-ga-and-et/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan Dear friends,I attach a new copy of a Heidegger bibliography, up-dated, cleaned up, and more complete. The attempt is to correlate the volumes and pages of the Gesamtausgabe with the current English translations. I welcome any corrections or suggestions. This effort could not have been completed without the pioneering bibliographical
- [BEING ITSELF IS NOT THE SAME AS EREIGNIS.](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/being-itself-is-not-the-same-as-ereignis/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan Dear friends, Just a brief response to Eric’s sentence: “Either Ereignis is identified with "Being itself," in which case it's really nothing other than "Being itself"; or else it's something other than "Being itself" & so can't be "thought" in terms of being or being(s).”It is clear that “Being itself”
- [BEING +/- DASEIN?](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/being-dasein/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan Dear friends,Richard has done us a great service in finding this text (GA 6:2: 441.23-24 = ET 76.31-32.) But it poses something of a dilemma. What are we to do when Heidegger seems to contradict himself egregiously? Cf. the following texts.Best regards, --Tom1. The relation to Dasein is intrinsic to
- [Apologies Eric/ Thanx Richard C](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/apologies-eric-thanx-richard-c/) - Written By: Gentlemen/Gentle Souls: Excuse the misattribution of Eric's wonderful contribution to this recent frenzy of e-thinking. Piety of question aptly applies. Thanx to Richard C. But the next time you lob a metaphorical grenade into the circle, give us some warning.Thanking all, by thinking,E
- [BABETTE BABICH'S POST](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/babette-babichs-post/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan Dear Babette,Yes, of course Seiendes is not limited to Dasein and does not depend on Dasein. That goes without saying. But as we all known, there is no Sein without Dasein: SZ 152.11-2 = 193.31-2; 183.29-30 = 228.12-4; 212. 4-5 = 255.10-1; GA 65: 254.22-3 = 200.23-4.From: Babette Babich [mailto:babette.babich@gmail.com]
- [BEING AS MEANING?](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/being-as-meaning-2/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan Dear friends,A colleague and dear friend of mine on the Heidegger-list wrote to me today to oppose the “reduction” of the Being of beings to the meaning or meaningfulness of beings. This is a frequent challenge to my position, so I thought I might indicate some texts in Heidegger on
- [BABETTE: SHOULD DOLPHINS BE ALLOWED TO VOTE?](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/babette-should-dolphins-be-allowed-to-vote/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan Dear Babette, Please excuse such a brief reply to your post (but I'm jet-lagged and about to go to sleep). 1. I think (I don't have texts at hand) that the opening sentence of SZ Division I is "We are the entities to be examined." Heidegger then goes on to
- [BABETTE: A MISUNDERSTANDING!](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/babette-a-misunderstanding/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan Dear Babette, Oh, no, no -- you misunderstand! Not a dialogue on *my* terms. I'd be happy to take *any* argument you care to offer, however slight, for your claim that Heidegger does not restrict Dasein to humans. (The "Husserl vs. Heidegger" argument didn't seem to have legs.) Please: you
- [BEST WISHES](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/best-wishes/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan Dear Richard and Heidegger-Forum friends, Diels-Kranz (6th ed., 1952) 22 B130 Best wishes of the season to all, Tom -- Thomas Sheehan Stanford University Stanford, CA 94305-2165 650 723-3322http://religiousstudies.stanford.edu/people/tom-sheehan/
- [Article in Die Zeit](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/article-in-die-zeit/) - Written By: Ellis Dye Dear Friends (mostly unbekannterweise), The German weekly Die Zeit has this recent report (1/23) about Heidegger's Schwarze Hefte, here only in part: "Schwarze Hefte"Vermisstes Werk von Heidegger aufgetaucht Eines der seit Wochen diskutierten "Schwarzen Hefte" des Philosophen Martin Heidegger war lange verschollen. Die ZEIT hat nun seinen Besitzer ausfindig gemacht.
- [BEING, ENTITIES, MANIFESTATION, IDEALISM](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/being-entities-manifestation-idealism/) - Written By: David Kleinberg-Levin Oh dear, yes! I meant to send it to everyone and will now do so. Thanks, Richard. Sending now to everyone gives me a chance to add a Post Script. DKL. On Feb 17, 2014, at 12:25 PM, "Polt, Richard" wrote: Works for me! Note that it seems you
- [Astonished!](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/astonished/) - Written By: ERIC J SANDBERG Tom: Your view of Heidegger is 'tres' radical and my questions undoubtedly 'old fogeyish.' But they're rough going. So know that they were formulated with an open mind and my ideas are always subject to being changed. It's not about changing opinion but rather of thinking differently. I'm ready
- [Autopoiesis, meaning, being, etc., etc.](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/autopoiesis-meaning-being-etc-etc/) - Thanks, Henry, for a helpful and appealing exposition of autopoiesis. I often feel that we talk past each other on this forum. It's partly an effect of the medium, and partly (I'll just speak for myself) an effect of the fact that I've been working on my interpretations of Heidegger for 30 years now, and
- [As an interlude (before it's back to black)](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/as-an-interlude-before-its-back-to-black/) - Written By: Babette Babich For Joan Stambaugh (1932-2013), in memoriam Paper written in honor of the late Joan Stambaugh, a long-standing member of the Heidegger Circle; I have also dedicated the most recent issue of New Nietzsche Studies, now in press, to her, along with the late Arthur Danto. https://fordham.academia.edu/BabetteBabich/Papers#add --> Chapter Ten in
- [Apologia pro rhetorica sua](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/apologia-pro-rhetorica-sua/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan Dear friends, “Many in the Forum and in the scholarship and commentary over many decades have indeed thought this matter through carefully and offered rich elucidations. That Tom disagrees with these responses and elucidations is one thing, but to sweepingly characterize others' efforts in this way is not right or
- [Article](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/article/) - Written By: Shane Ewegen Richard:What a wonderful paper – thank you so much for sharing it. You’ve provided such a cogent and convincing narrative of Heidegger’s development in this regard, I don’t believe I’ve ever seen the matter so clearly. I found myself understanding—again, with a depth that I haven’t before—what it means to
- [Apologies for the falsche Sendung!](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/apologies-for-the-falsche-sendung/) - Written By: Gregory Fried Dear HC Colleagues, My apologies. As several of you have (kindly and gently) notified me, I accidentally sent an email to the HC listserv that was intended for the students in my undergrad Heidegger course. It now has reached its proper recipients. Thank you. Derrida wrote a whole book about
- [At Stakes](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/at-stakes/) - Written By: ERIC J SANDBERG Dear friends: Are we properly hearing the 'anguish' in Tom's question of the 'at-stakes.' In all of these musings has there been any 'gain?' What the loss? Have we taken real measure of the COST? Eric
- [Appropriation](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/appropriation/) - Written By: ERIC J SANDBERG Philippe: Nobody coming out to play so let me share a few of my notes on 'appropriation' and the proper which you have rightly questioned. I've given the word -- read translation -- more than a little thought. I came to understand that it is one of those words
- [Are the Black Notebooks online?](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/are-the-black-notebooks-online/) - Written By: gordonhasmail How are people getting this text?
- [Artist Rothko](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/artist-rothko/) - Written By: Anthony Sanzone Friends:Can anyone lead me to write-ups on a Heideggerian interpretation of the American artist Rothko’s work?Thanks for your timeTony s
- [Apology by way of Apologia](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/apology-by-way-of-apologia/) - Written By: ERIC J SANDBERG Tom: Some preliminary thoughts, Thank you for your magnanimity, Eric Attachments-393/Tom.docx
- [Arguement or Explanation](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/arguement-or-explanation/) - Written By: ERIC J SANDBERG Tom: Hope I haven't been to hard on the text. But it is what I think which is what you asked for. Wishing you a wonderful Stanford morning, Eric Attachments-392/Tom2.docx
- [Asking for help with GA 97: 175.12-16](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/asking-for-help-with-ga-97-175-12-16/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan Dear friends, I attach a text from GA 97, with a paraphrastic translation. May I ask for any corrections, suggestions, interpretations of the passage? Thanks in advance. Tom Attachments-390/GA 97 p 175.pdf
- [at a loose end](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/at-a-loose-end/) - I just bought a book (L'etre et le divin Bernard Sichere). I bought it because I need something to read. I need something to do. The book already offers something for correspondence: the divine gaze. But it occurs to me that there is also the question of unemployment and of being stuck or blocked. For
- [Arkadi's post: Zeit and Zeitlichkeit](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/arkadis-post-zeit-and-zeitlichkeit/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan Dear friends, Arkadi writes: "Hd construes Dasein's--and, before that, factical life's--being as movement. Yet Hd insists that this movement is not a "process" (Vorgang), which means, in particular, that it is not "in" time." This raises the question of what Zeitlichkeit ("temporality") and Zeit ("time") mean both in Being and
- [are there strictly synonymous terms in Hd?](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/are-there-strictly-synonymous-terms-in-hd/) - Written By: Arkadi Choufrine I am asking because, on David K.-L. interpretation of Tom Sheehan's view, Tom asserts this of the terms "Da-sein" and "die Lichtung." In my view, it is not only implausible but, also, impossible for such assertion to be true.I.e., should Hd even want to (unwisely) use two different terms for
- [Apologies, Richard. The correct *third* response is attached to this mail. --Tom](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/apologies-richard-the-correct-third-response-is-attached-to-this-mail-tom/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan Attachments-394/01 JAN 25 3rd RESPONSE to POLT.pdf
- [Babette: Dasein is not limited to the human being.](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/babette-dasein-is-not-limited-to-the-human-being/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan OK, Babette, let's hear more! (And no need to be sorry. . . . Sorry for what?) Tom On Sun, Jan 31, 2016 at 7:57 PM, Babette Babich wrote: I remain unpersuaded that Dasein is limited to the human being. Sorry Tom. Babette Babich Fulbright Fellow , Humboldt University,
- [Anyone know where (if) Heidegger uses the phrase, "the oblivion of the oblivion," referring, as I recall, to our technological understanding of being?](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/anyone-know-where-if-heidegger-uses-the-phrase-the-oblivion-of-the-oblivion-referring-as-i-recall-to-our-technological-understanding-of-being/) - Begin forwarded message: Does anyone know, off the top of their heads, where the phrase, "the oblivion of the oblivion" appears in Heidegger? I was thinking Basic Questions of Philosophy (GA 45) but I can't find it. Thanks David Leech
- [Arendt article "Martin Heidegger ist achtzig Jahre alt"](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/arendt-article-martin-heidegger-ist-achtzig-jahre-alt/) - Written By: Joachim Kübler Dear list members, does anyone know were I can read Hannah Arendts article Martin Heidegger ist achtzig Jahre alt" (published in Merkur", Heft 10, 1969) online or as PDF? Via Twitter the Hannah Arendt Center told me that the article is published in the book with the Arendt-Heidegger letters, but
- [Arkadi's post re Seinsvergessenheit](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/arkadis-post-re-seinsvergessenheit/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan Dear Arkadi, Would it be correct to say that, for Hd, there is (1) the forgetting of Being operative in one's "inauthentic" everydayness (i.e., one's preoccupation solely with entities), namely the forgetting of one's pre-ontological understanding of what they are, which forgetting is "healed" by traditional metaphysics; and (2) the
- [art or science?](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/art-or-science/) - "How is humanity ever supposed to have invented that which pervades it in its sway, due to which humanity itself can be as humanity in the first place? [...] The violence-doing of poetic saying, of thoughtful projection, of constructive building of state-creating action, is not an application of faculties that the human being has but
- [Appeal for support of National Humanities Counsel](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/appeal-for-support-of-national-humanities-counsel/) - Written By: Heidegger The following post is sent on behalf of Presiding Officer Emeritus Dan Dalhstrom to the forum. Dear friends and colleagues, The Constitution states that a purpose of government is to "promote the general welfare." Our capacity to understand our country and our world is critical to that goal. This week,
- [BLUT UND BODEN: NOCH EINMAL!](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/blut-und-boden-noch-einmal/) - In case you did not see this. I never wore a kippa, never wore the other things that would identify me as Jewish. I was always secular. But the incidents in the story told here are essentially not different from what I myself experienced myself as a child growing up in the 1950's, when going
- [astonished again](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/astonished-again/) - Dear Forum, "The essence of truth is, in itself, the primal strife in which that open centre is won within which beings stand and from which they set themselves back into themselves." (Basic Writings 2011p115) This is "the movement of the clearing of self-concealing as such" (BW p137). It requires (BW p137) a fixing in
- [BOOKS IN A STRANGE NEW WORLD](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/books-in-a-strange-new-world/) - Books
- [art and craft](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/art-and-craft/) - Dear Forum, Techn meant both art and craft. And if a distinction is to be made here the decisive factor can be limit. In humble craft the limit in question is that of a being (limit relates to the telos that at once defines and begins poi sis). In art it is more a question
- [Asking for suggestions regarding Heidegger's Nietzsche in terms of Eternal Return of the Same as "Existentia" and Will to Power as "Essentia"](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/asking-for-suggestions-regarding-heideggers-nietzsche-in-terms-of-eternal-return-of-the-same-as-existentia-and-will-to-power-as-essentia/) - Hi everyone. I hope you are all having a great summer! I am trying to wrap my head around Heidegger's suggestion that for Nietzsche Eternal Return of the Same represents "Existentia," and Will to Power represents "Essentia." These would be Heidegger's interpretations of Nietzsche's grundbegriffe. In his recently published 1964/65 lecture course on Heidegger, Derrida
- [Being and Time and Kant's practical philosophy](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/being-and-time-and-kants-practical-philosophy/) - Written By: Richard Polt [From the old Heidegger Circle Forum.] Being and Time and Kant's practical philosophy by nate zuckerman Tue Jan 27, 2009 3:43 pm Kant says a few things in the Groundwork that, now that I'm reading it, remind me of Heidegger's language in Being and Time. For instance, he says at
- [Being's presencing](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/beings-presencing/) - Written By: Gregory Fried Tom, Again with the deceptively simple questions! What lets Being do its thing, as it were, its presencing (transitive or intransitive!)? Yes, of course, Heidegger would say that Ereignis does. But with this answer, we are now far from your original request, namely that we try to express what Heidegger
- [Being's Meaning](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/beings-meaning/) - Written By: Gregory Fried Tom Sheehan presents a challenging critique of Richard Polt's suggestion that Being may be understood in two ways: Being-as-meaning and Being-as-excess. Tom focuses on Heidegger's affirmation of the obvious: "that beings-as-merely-existing are out there independent of Dasein" -- and he points out that for Heidegger, THIS sense of Being ("the
- [Being and Truth](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/being-and-truth/) - Greg Fried's and my translation of Being and Truth (GA 36/37) is now in print: http://www.iupress.indiana.edu/catalog/product_info.php?isbn=978-0-253-35511-9
- [Being and May 2](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/being-and-may-2/) - How did we know that Bin Laden would eventually be captured or killed? In the same way, how did we know that Hitler would eventually be defeated? You might say we didn't know. It just turned out that way, so now I can asked the question. If it turned out the other way, I probably
- [Being -- 2 For Tom](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/being-2-for-tom/) - Written By: Tom: Sorry for any confusion. As I understand 5he issue, it isn't whether in B&T 'world' is a concern of Dasein but whether Dasein should be though in the direction of a 'secular' humanism, reducing B&T to anthropology? Will you leave we grouse over Heidegger's grousing over a translation. He doesn't get
- [Being in the Cenozoic Era WAS: Keeping in View a Crucial Point About Being](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/being-in-the-cenozoic-era-was-keeping-in-view-a-crucial-point-about-being/) - Dear Tom, As I understand it, before homo-sapien, there were naturally occurring beings/entities such as protons and electrons, and the ratio of the mass of a proton and an electron was fixed -- before the first human to calculate that ratio. However, clothes and furniture did not exist until dasein started using collections of atoms as clothes and furniture,
- [Being in the Cenozoic Era WAS](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/being-in-the-cenozoic-era-was/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan Dear Pete,Thanks for this. I don't understand this: "Being can remain hidden from humans, but it is always there." (1) If you mean "it was also there before Dasein," how would we know that? (2) It seems that Being is always the Being/manifestation of beings (SZ 37.13 = 61.26-7: "Sein
- [Being as Aletheia/The Clearing Itself is Being](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/being-as-aletheia-the-clearing-itself-is-being/) - Hello, all, Just a quick and gentle reply to some of what I have read on the Forum. I think that we have missed the whole point of philosophical hermeneutics if there is an insistence that there is such a clear-cut "right" and "wrong" reading of Heidegger, that there are evidently "erroneous" readings, and so
- [Behind or Beyond the Clearing?](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/behind-or-beyond-the-clearing/) - Richard C. sounds kind of bored with the topic of "the clearing" in a recent post, so let me apologize for bringing it up again. But I think the matter-for-thought is the clearing and I'm puzzled by something. In The Heidegger Dictionary Prof. Dahlstrom has a nice entry on this topic, but fully half of
- [being Jewish / thinking Heidegger](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/being-jewish-thinking-heidegger/) - Written By: Gary E Davis Larry, You're certainly not off track for thinking of Heidegger relative to being Jewish! But the topic deserves its own focus, rather than as trailer in "Hermeneutic reflections" about Heidegger's use of 'Jewry', etc. in his Considerations. I'm playing on Allen Scult's book title. I want to follow through
- [Beauty belongs to the unfolding of Being](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/beauty-belongs-to-the-unfolding-of-being/) - Hi, all, I came across Heidegger's gloss on his own Introduction to Metaphysics in GA 73.1: 134 (the volume was published in 2013): "Beauty belongs to the unfolding [the essencing] of Being" --and Heidegger provides the italics. This observation is, I think, a good way to sum up what I have tried to elucidate--and evoke--in
- [Be-ing](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/be-ing/) - Written By: ERIC J SANDBERG Is Heidegger Lurian? Is man 'be-ing's' 'vessel?' What does Heidegger mean in "Introduction to Metaphysics," when he says that the 'breech,' man, "shatters against be-ing." [174] Do we have a 'secular' "breaking of the vessels?" Why is 'jug' privileged in explicating the 'fourfold?' Can the esoteric side of Heidegger
- [Being and thinking, the 'sovereignty' of be-ing](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/being-and-thinking-the-sovereignty-of-be-ing/) - Written By: ERIC J SANDBERG We loop back. A characteristic gesture of Heidegger. Interpretation emerges this or that far in/on the hermeneutic circle and we have to go back and 'adjust,' tweak any earlier understanding. It's just why we'll never be through with reading Heidegger. (And it's why, here, that we read forward in
- [being and beingness from the "Preview" of Contributions to Philosophy](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/being-and-beingness-from-the-preview-of-contributions-to-philosophy/) - Contributions to Philosophy 2.: "The question of being is the question of the truth of be-ing. When accomplished and grasped as it historically unfolds, it becomes the grounding-question as against the hitherto "guiding-question" of philosophy, which has been the question about beings." Contributions to Philosophy 34.: "If we inquire into beings as beings (on y
- [being decides](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/being-decides/) - Thanks to Richard Polt, Michael Fitzgerald, Eric J Sandberg and everyone else. I certainly got a response to my post! My first thought in response to Richard's generous e-mail that launched this debate was how might the god or gods be inceptive as contrasted with epochal? Another thought is about the thinking of being. If
- [being decides 2 eureka!](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/being-decides-2-eureka/) - This (historical) decision is "the very going apart, which divides and in parting lets the enownment of precisely this open in parting come into play as the clearing for the still un-decided self-sheltering-concealing, man's belongingness to be-ing as founder of be-ing's truth, and the allotment of be-ing unto the time of the last god" (Contributions
- [being decides 3](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/being-decides-3/) - The self-refusal of being, that it does not give itself, is an emptiness or rather a remoteness of undecidability, which calls for grounding and there is a whole joining of Contributions to Philosophy devoted to that. But the remoteness of undecidability is also a clearing, an enopening in which the "sheltering-concealing" of "that which we
- [becoming a self](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/becoming-a-self/) - "The call is befalling and staying away in the mystery of Ereignung." (Contributions to Philosophy 255) ... According to Kierkegaard the disciple must will freedom, the condition of truth but requires a saviour and deliverer, then conversion, repentance and rebirth where he makes the transition from not-being to being. This experience is centred on the
- [Back to the Jurassic](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/back-to-the-jurassic/) - Hi, From "What, after all, was Heidegger about?":If we overlook the phenomenological paradigm within which Heidegger works,we risk reducing his texts to some form of na ve realism in which Sein can somehow show up without human ex-sistence---in the Jurassic Period, for example, some 150,000,000 years ago.I used to think that Sein depends on human
- [Being irreducible to meaning string](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/being-irreducible-to-meaning-string/) - Hello, all, This must be an old string here, and I have missed the significance of resurrecting it once again. But clearly the discussion has moved far forward since, and this matter of Being as "excess" or "overflow" of meaning is addressed explicitly in my "Heidegger's Way of Being" and in my recent remarks at
- [Be-ers](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/be-ers/) - On a lighter note, here's an interesting proposal from the latest Review of Metaphysics: The Review of Metaphysics - Volume 69, Number 1 - 2015 Alan White Rearticulating Being It is often noted, by philosophers concerned with being, that problems arise for the articulation of being in English from the fact that the infinitive "to
- [Being & Truth now available in paperback](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/being-truth-now-available-in-paperback/) - Attachments-386/IMG_2873.JPGAttachments-386/ATT00001.txt
- [Being Itself](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/being-itself/) - I am hopeful that my post on the new text from Notebook GA 95 is not lost in the follow-up. The clarification of Heidegger's Being/Being itself/Being as such/Being as Being/Beyng is a significant task in both "Engaging Heidegger" and "Heidegger's Way of Being." In my view, only by way of the most tortuous argumentation could
- [Becoming Heidegger](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/becoming-heidegger/) - Written By: Does anyone know where I may acquire a copy of Ted Kisiel's Becoming Heidegger? From time to time I have used a library copy, but I can't mark it up as I would like. Though $449 at Amazon may indeed be a fair price, it is a bit steep for me. Any
- [Back to the Truture](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/back-to-the-truture/) - Written By: Gregory Fried Good morning, everyone. To return to the question of the political meaning of truth, have you seen this? The Washington Post reports, in an interview on The Diane Rehm Show, Trump supporter and CNN political commentator Scottie Nell Hughes declared the end of facts (an announcement about the death of the author soon
- [Be-reich](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/be-reich/) - Dear All: I wonder if anyone could mention bibliography on Be-reich, which figures as a crucial term in Basic Principles of Thinking. Indeed, as singulare tantum--the second one, after Ereignis. It is defined as a space of play, but in such a way that conflict seems part of it--play overrides or includes conflict. A bit
- [Being is "Older" and "More Enduring" Than the Human Being](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/being-is-older-and-more-enduring-than-the-human-being/) - Hello, all, just one further note on the Wahl letter (1937). It illustrates Heidegger's ongoing turn to the thinking of Being as such (Sein als solches/Sein selbst/Sein als Sein/Seyn), which looks ahead to his "preoccupation" with thinking Being as Physis, Aletheia, the primordial Logos, kosmos, and so forth in the brilliant elucidations of Parmenides, Heraclitus,
- [Badiou's Heidegger](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/badious-heidegger/) - Dear All: Has anybody read Alain Badiou's Heidegger. L'etre 3-Figure du retrait. 1986-87? It came out in French about a year and a half ago, but it seems to have had not much impact? Thanks a lot, Alberto
- [Badiou bites Heidegger](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/badiou-bites-heidegger/) - Dear Forum, According to Heidegger in Gelassenheit das Verhaeltnis with die Gegnet would be to wait and to thus leave the initiative to it. In this way Gelassenheit rests in die Gegnet and receives its movement to it from it... According to Alain Badiou "Thought does not wait, and it has never exhausted, except for those who succumb to the deep
- [Being is the "measure"](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/being-is-the-measure/) - Upon re-visiting GA 55 Heraklit (after the stimulating panel discussion at the Heidegger Circle), I am struck once again by the extraordinary lengths that the later Heidegger went to in order to show that Sein is the "measure" itself, and that Sein must not be bent to the human being's measure. From GA 55: "The
- [Basic Concepts (Gesamtausgabe Volume 51)](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/basic-concepts-gesamtausgabe-volume-51/) - Dear Forum Members: Way back in 1993 Indiana University Press published Heidegger's 1941 lectures as Basic Concepts translated by Professor Aylesworth. As I read around in the vast scholarly literature, it seems that many people consider this an especially interesting or important text. Do any of you have any opinions about this slim little book
- [Being Isn't A Genus!](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/being-isnt-a-genus/) - My latest Youtube video about ontology.https://youtu.be/6SAhhUS_S0w Love & Liberation,Zach
- [Beitrage zur Philosophie (Vom Ereignis)](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/beitrage-zur-philosophie-vom-ereignis/) - Written By: Thomas Will the upcoming and new English translation of the Beitrage improve our reading of the text? Tom
- [blog post--"Nothing Without You"](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/blog-post-nothing-without-you/) - A hauntingly beautiful song capturing the experience of world-collapse following a traumatic loss:http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/feeling-relating-existing/201211/nothing-without-you _______________ http://robertdstolorow.googlepages.com
- [being-for-death?](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/being-for-death/) - Dear colleagues, My wife, who has absorbed a lot of Heidegger from me, is having an argument with her sister, a Lacanian English professor and sometimes-student of Heidegger, about the meaning of Heidegger's phrase Sein-zum-Tode. My sister-in-law insists the "being-for-death" is a plausible meaning of the phrase, in the sense of being in favor of
- [blog post on loss and transience](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/blog-post-on-loss-and-transience/) - "Everybody's Changing and I Don't Feel the Same": http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/feeling-relating-existing/201302/everybody-s-changing-and-i-don-t-feel-the-same
- [Bob Stolorow's psot](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/bob-stolorows-psot/) - Written By: Lou Agosta Thanks for the moving expression of loss, Bob.Condolences on your loss, the loss, our loss as a community, of your friend and collaborator, Bernard Brandtschaft. With sympathies,Lou Lou Agosta, Ph.D.LAgosta@theChicagoSchool.edu 1-773-506-9511/1-773-203-0269www.ListeningWIthEmpathy.com CONFIDENTIAL NOTE: This e-mail transmission and any attachments heretocontain information that is confidential and privileged. The information is intended for the sole
- [Being: appearing and significance](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/being-appearing-and-significance/) - What I really appreciate about Tom Sheehan and Richard Capobianco is that both persistently try to articulate what the question of "being" is all about. When I once had the temerity to ask, "What is being?" at a certain Heidegger conference (not the Circle), I was merely treated to a long lecture on why that
- [Being: existence and predication ... and mapping the brain](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/being-existence-and-predication-and-mapping-the-brain/) - These reflections are related to my thoughts on being as appearing and significance, but I think they belong in a separate message. The distinction between appearing and significance resembles the distinctions between existence and essence, or Da -Sein and Was-Sein, or existential and universal assertions. For Heidegger, such distinctions need to be respected, but also understood in their interconnections. They
- [Blog post on the comportment of emotional dwelling](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/blog-post-on-the-comportment-of-emotional-dwelling/) - http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/feeling-relating-existing/201303/i-ll-be-you-when-the-deal-goes-down
- [Book Publication Announcement: Questioning Martin Heidegger by Eric D. Meyer (It's Finally Published!...)](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/book-publication-announcement-questioning-martin-heidegger-by-eric-d-meyer-its-finally-published/) - Written By: eric d. meyer Dear Heideggerians et al, My book, Questioning Martin Heidegger: On Western Metaphysics, Bhuddhist Ethics, & the Fate of the Sentient Earth has now been published by University Press of America (2103) and is probably available at libraries and bookstores near you! Or direct from University Press! through the e-flier
- [blog post on portkey to trauma](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/blog-post-on-portkey-to-trauma/) - "The Boston Marathon Bombing as a Collective Trauma": http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/feeling-relating-existing/201304/the-boston-marathon-bombing-collective-trauma
- [Bloomsbury Companion to Heidegger](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/bloomsbury-companion-to-heidegger/) - The Bloomsbury Companion to Heidegger, edited by Fran ois Raffoul and Eric Sean Nelson, has just been published. This 489-page volume includes quite a few contributions from Heidegger Circle members. The details are here: http://www.bloomsbury.com/us/the-bloomsbury-companion-to-heidegger-9781441199850/
- [Black Notebooks Reply](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/black-notebooks-reply/) - (I'm posting this for Julia Ireland because she had some technical difficulties. Richard) Dear Heidegger Circle Friends, I've been carefully following the discussion on the "Black Notebooks" and feel that I have this to add to Adam's "any thoughts?": 1. As some of you already know through several presentations I've given, I accidentally discovered Heidegger's
- [Black Notebooks conference](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/black-notebooks-conference/) - Heidegger s Black Notebooks: Philosophy, Politics, Anti-Semitism Emory University September 5-6, 2014 Speakers: Peter Trawny (Wuppertal) Bettina Bergo (Montr al) Robert Bernasconi (Penn State) Sander Gilman (Emory) Peter E. Gordon (Harvard) Eduardo Mendieta (Stony Brook) Richard Polt (Xavier) Tom Rockmore (Duquesne) Conference is free and open to the public. Please join us for a conference
- [Black Notebooks conference - updated list of participants](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/black-notebooks-conference-updated-list-of-participants/) - Heidegger s Black Notebooks: Philosophy, Politics, Anti-Semitism Emory University September 5-6, 2014 Speakers: Peter Trawny (Bergische Universit t Gesamthochschule Wuppertal) Bettina Bergo (Universit de Montr al) Robert Bernasconi (Pennsylvania State University) Martin Gessmann (Hochschule f r Gestaltung, Offenbach am Main) Sander Gilman (Emory University) Peter E. Gordon (Harvard University) Eduardo Mendieta (Stony Brook University) Richard
- [Beyng](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/beyng/) - Dear Pete & Tom, It is good to know the site has a new home -- it is remarkable place, and I've enjoyed using it for as long as I can remember. Thank you for looking after it. There is an archaic form of in Greek, to which Heidegger makes frequent reference, and which he
- [Bill Richardson / Richard II](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/bill-richardson-richard-ii/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan Dear friends, Richard Kearney of Boston College sent these two pictures of Bill Richardson, the first ca. 1939-40 at Holy Cross and the other just a few hours ago. Richard writes:
- [Black Notebooks: "Jews do not belong to the German people."](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/black-notebooks-jews-do-not-belong-to-the-german-people/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2014/mar/20/imaginary-jews/ While one slogs through GA 94-97, a question: Which famous twentieth-century philosopher suggested that the German Jews were "co-responsible" for the horror that befell them, because "all economic statistics prove that German Jews belonged not to the German people, but at most to its bourgeoisie" ? Teaser: The answer
- [Being/Beyng is Aletheia itself as Physis](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/being-beyng-is-aletheia-itself-as-physis/) - In the recently published GA 73.1: 121-152, Heidegger glosses his points presented in Introduction to Metaphysics (1935). In these glosses, he speaks to the devolution of thinking from the earliest Greeks, who understood that aletheia, or "originary and primordial truth," was a name for Being itself; that is, aletheia "is" Being itself as unconcealment/reserve, which
- [Being/Beyng is Aletheia itself as Physis--one more time.](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/being-beyng-is-aletheia-itself-as-physis-one-more-time/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan Dear Richard and friends, Richard writes: "Heidegger's primary, original, and distinctive reading of aletheia is that it "belongs to," is "a feature of," Being in the first place as manifestation/showing-forth/shining-forth/emergence." 1.But Heidegger clearly says Aristotle already knew that Being was manifestation/ showing-forth/shining-forth/emergence (see GA 21: 170-182; GA 31: 87-109, etc.).
- [bolshevism](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/bolshevism/) - Dear Forum, Is it out of place to find class struggles (Klassenkaempfen) in the revealing of all things achieved by the Greek "poets, thinkers and statesmen"? Best wishes Andrew Price
- [beyond the personal](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/beyond-the-personal/) - Dear Forum, Questions of the divine often stand as personal. But if a history of moments, i.e. of "the flashing up of beyng out of the enduring of the simple and always incalculable event" (Contributions to Philosophy section 255), is to be instituted doesn't this require an opening up of the relating of gods and humans
- [Beyng in the Notebooks](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/beyng-in-the-notebooks/) - In the midst of the contemporary preoccupation with the biographical issues of the Black Notebooks, we should try to discern and keep in view (for the long-term) the philosophical import of the Notebooks:From the first Notebook volume, GA 94: Heidegger clarifies that from the outset of his Denkweg it was the experience of the primacy
- [Beyond the ontological difference?](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/beyond-the-ontological-difference/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan Dear Alberto, What does one mean by "the ontological difference in the originary sense" Heidegger speaks of the need to free thinking from the ontological difference ("...n tig wird, dem Denken die ontologische Differenz zu erlassen," GA 14: 46.22-23). Tom Thomas SheehanStanford Universityhttp://religiousstudies.stanford.edu/people/tom-sheehan/ On Sat, Jan 16, 2016 at 9:43
- [belonging, yes, requirement, ?](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/belonging-yes-requirement/) - Dear Forum, Strangely, the projection of ones ownmost possibility (death) brings things concealed and also strange to light: fate and history. These are not so much chosen as disclosed. Thus one belongs to beyng. "The opening accomplished by the projection is an opening only if it occurs as an experience of thrownness and thus of belonging
- [Book Proposal](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/book-proposal/) - Written By: Richard.Ackermann Dear Forum, A few months ago I proposed that the Heidegger Circle collaborate on a book, but I didn't articulate very well what I had in mind or why I thought it was needed. I've attempted to do that in the attached document. I present
- [Bill Richardson, 97 years and counting](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/bill-richardson-97-years-and-counting/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan Dear friends, Last Sunday at the Jesuit residence, Weston, Mass., Bill Richardson, dean of Heidegger studies worldwide, celebrated his 97th birthday. (Photo attached) He's temporarily racing around the corridors in a wheelchair, but as sharp as ever and in excellent humor. Prosit! Ad multos annos! Bill's emails are:frrichar@bc.edu and william.richardson@bc.edu
- [Bill Richardson in palliative care](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/bill-richardson-in-palliative-care/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan Dear friends, Jeff Bloechl sends this sad news about Bill Richardson. I have learned today that Bill is now in palliative care and not expected to live more than a day or two. According to a nurse, it seems possible or even likely that he will pass away tonight or
- [Bill Richardson, S.J. --R.I.P.](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/bill-richardson-s-j-r-i-p/) - Written By: Bill died peacefully early this morning at 1:33a.m., Saturday, December 10, 2016. May he rest in peace!
- [Book discount offer](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/book-discount-offer/) - Hi All: Below is the discount offer from Rowman & Littlefield International for my book. The link is to the UK site. I have added the link to the US Rowman & Littlefield site. The code should work there too. Rowman
- [Berlin Vorlesung SoSe 2017: Heideggers Sein und Zeit, Heideggers Schwarze Hefte](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/berlin-vorlesung-sose-2017-heideggers-sein-und-zeit-heideggers-schwarze-hefte/) - I am teaching a German lecture course this summer semester 2017 at the Humboldt Universit t in Berlin -- with some English exceptions -- a course taught this past spring term with an excellent group of doctoral students at Fordham University, this time at a BA and MA level, Thursdays mostly, with the exception of
- [beyond sheltering the truth?](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/beyond-sheltering-the-truth/) - Dear Forum,It seems to me that die Bergung der Wahrheit of Beitr ge zur Philosophie is replaced in later work by die Entbergung, see for example Parmenides (English translation)p133 and "The Question Concerning Technology". Das Ereignis is more than just a call and a heed/belonging. It needs (bed rfen) the being. At Parmenides p133 we
- [Beyond the exiel-exial distinction = ?](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/beyond-the-exiel-exial-distinction/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan Dear James, re:"The transformation in question, which I'm identifying with the Ereignis- and Kehre-character of being, takes us to a realm beyond the distinction." The exiel-exial distinction is certainly not the be-all and end-all of Hd's work. Nonetheless, it is a distinction he never gave up as he moved into
- [Black Friday](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/black-friday/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan Dear Richard, In the spirit of Sarah Huckabee Sanders, let me begin by giving thanks for this fascinating discussion. But I have no more questions to ask, only some final agreements and distinctions, plus a dyspeptic afterthought. Tom 1. "I'm human but not necessarily Da-sein, in the sense in which
- [being: plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose!](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/being-plus-ca-change-plus-cest-la-meme-chose/) - Dear Forum, If the job of the custodian of being is to first let successful creations be the ungeheure works they are then, taken in tandem with creation, custodianship might be described as the preservation of change... Best wishes Andrew Price
- [bliss?](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/bliss/) - Dear Forum, (It occurs to me that the time of day is perhaps inappropriate for this, but having had some sleep I am quite enthusiastic.) According to Heidegger we owe our essence to being: we are inceptually ge-eignet (Gelassenheit p52). We thus belong to the truth of being and this through 'movement' to it from
- [Being-Addicted and the Analytic of Dasein](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/being-addicted-and-the-analytic-of-dasein/) - Heidegger points to Heraclitus's saying "physis kryptesthai philei," being loves to hide, and "a-letheia," coaxing out of hiddeness. In the lecture course on The Fundamental Concept of Metaphysics, Heidegger says there is a fundamental Langeweile or boredom, a stretching out of time, that underlies human existence. We can coax this hidden monster out of hiding
- [beyond the market?](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/beyond-the-market/) - Is human dignity a signOf another dignity too,Human dignity what it isBecause of the work it comes through?So does human resemble godAnd is worth shared between the two?Is there place beyond the marketFor different kinds of value? Sent from Windows Mail
- [Book on Truth](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/book-on-truth/) - I 'm happy to announce that my book, "Heidegger on Truth: Its Essence and Its Fate," is now appearing with the University of Toronto Press. This book introduces the 1930 versions of Heidegger's address, "On the Essence of Truth," which appeared in 2016 in the Gesamtausgabe, vol. 90. I translate the leading sections of the
- [Being-a-ground](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/being-a-ground/) - In Division II, chapter 2 of SZ, in the Macquarrie and Robinson translation, Heidegger uses the world Grundsein. Is this more appropriately translated as Being-a-ground or Being-a-grounding. Reading it, it sounds like the verb would be better cause it includes this notion of movement. Zach
- [Buchenwald/Dora survivors' association](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/buchenwald-dora-survivors-association/) - Written By: Richard Polt Dearest friends from the Heidegger Circle, With Richard's approval, I am using the forum to make a crucial call : - crucial because it deals with the writing of history during the second World War - crucial because we, French people, want to transmis new knowledge to our kids and
- [Books from the estate of J. Glenn Gray](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/books-from-the-estate-of-j-glenn-gray/) - Written By: Richard Polt >From Dr. Dorothea Olkowski: I have three books for sale from the estate of J. Glenn Gray. The First: Martin Heidegger's Ph nomenologie und Theologie (Klostermann, 1970). The inside cover is inscribed "Glenn Gray, Gift from Heidegger, Spring, 1971." The Second: Zur Seinsfrage (Klostermann, 1959). The inside cover is inscribed
- [Call for papers info](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/call-for-papers-info/) - Friends, Our website is down at this inopportune moment, right on the deadline for submitting papers. For that reason I am e-mailing this call for papers to you. Please note that they should not be sent to me; I am not the convenor this year. They should be sent to HeideggerCircle2010@gmail.com. Richard Polt The Heidegger
- [Call for Papers](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/call-for-papers/) - Written By: Mahon O Brien Many of you may already be aware of this upcoming conference, but I thought I would draw people's attention to it nonetheless. http://www.ucd.ie/t4cms/call%20for%20papers%20-%20heidegger%2010sep10.pdf
- [Call for papers 2011](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/call-for-papers-2011/) - I sent this information earlier today to everyone on our "interested" list, including current members, but just so no e-mail addresses fall between the cracks, I will post it to this list too. --Richard CALL FOR PAPERS The 2011 meeting of the Heidegger Circle will be hosted by Marquette University Conference Center, Raynor
- [CFP- Phenomenology at Sussex (Brighton, UK)](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/cfp-phenomenology-at-sussex-brighton-uk/) - Written By: Christos Hadjioannou Dear Richard, I am wondering whether you could forward this CFP to members of the Heidegger Circle? Thanks. Best wishes, Christos -- Christos Hadjioannou DPhil Candidate in Philosophy & Assistant Tutor http://www.sussex.ac.uk/philosophy/people/peoplelists/person/169231 Attachments-380/The Ends of Phenomenology- CFP.doc
- [CFP Graduate Conference in Phenomenology, University of Sussex, UK, May 2012](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/cfp-graduate-conference-in-phenomenology-university-of-sussex-uk-may-2012/) - Written By: Speaking the Phenomenon: the 3rd annual University of Sussex graduate conference in phenomenology. May 24th-25th, 2012 How do the logos and its phenomenon relate? How does the logos itself appear? Is any articulation of the phenomenon possible? We are currently welcoming submissions for the 3rd annual University of Sussex graduate conference in
- [CHINESE SCHOLAR and PAUL RICOEUR](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/chinese-scholar-and-paul-ricoeur/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan Dear friends,I recently received the following message from a Chinese professor who works in semiotics and Paul Ricoeur. He is applying for post-doctoral research in the United States with an individual professor. I have had to reply that this is not possible for me over the next two years.If anyone
- [CORRECTIONS TO SZ 212-213](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/corrections-to-sz-212-213/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan Dear friends, I've run across a series of typos in the footnotes to SZ section 44, pp. 212-3 (GA 2, p. 282). Note 2 on p. 212 and note 3 on p. 213 are to be taken together, and all the other six notes on p. 213 are to be
- [CFA - Seminar in Phenomenology and the History of Philosophy - Kant and the Founding of Phenomenology](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/cfa-seminar-in-phenomenology-and-the-history-of-philosophy-kant-and-the-founding-of-phenomenology/) - Written By: Matthew Shockey Colleagues, Some of you may be interested in this new Seminar in Phenomenology and the History of Philosophy that Clinton Tolley and I are starting. Please consider submitting! Best, Matt Shockey _______________________________
- [CFA - Reminder and Extended Deadline - Seminar in Phenomenology and the History of Philosophy](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/cfa-reminder-and-extended-deadline-seminar-in-phenomenology-and-the-history-of-philosophy/) - Written By: Matthew Shockey NEW DEADLINE: May 8th *Call for Abstracts* Inaugural Seminar in Phenomenology and the
- [Brief reply to Eric's post of 10/9](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/brief-reply-to-erics-post-of-10-9/) - Written By: Bricker, Jeffrey Hi Eric, You wrote, “After the Kehre, then, MH attempts to think Being’s self-disclosure to itself without Dasein….”. I just think you are mistaken about this. As I read him, both in his early and late writings, you simply must have dasein/entities/being in order to avoid ending up with just
- [Brief reply to Eric's reply!](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/brief-reply-to-erics-reply/) - Written By: Bricker, Jeffrey Hi Eric, You and I are pretty much on the same page when it comes to evaluating Heidegger’s shift in the late forties from trying to think the unconcealment of entities to trying to express the unconcealment of being. After a couple of decades of assuring us that the very
- [Brief reply to Tom's suggestion to add time to the list](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/brief-reply-to-toms-suggestion-to-add-time-to-the-list/) - Written By: Bricker, Jeffrey “When we say ‘It gives Being’ ‘It gives time’ we are not making statements about beings.” (On Time and Being, p.18) Jeff
- [CONFIRMING: (1) EREIGNIS GIVES SEIN (2) CAUTION ABOUT THE "AS"](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/confirming-1-ereignis-gives-sein-2-caution-about-the-as/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan Dear friends,Richard Capobianco correctly cites “Time and Being”: “The sole purpose of the lecture was to bring before our eyes Being itself as Ereignis.” However, the citation continues with an important warning:“But what the word Ereignis denotes says something altogether different. The inconspicuous word ‘as’ – always treacherous because of
- [CORRECTIONS TO "TAKING OVER EREIGNIS"](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/corrections-to-taking-over-ereignis/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan Dear friends, I had two page references wrong in the last posting. I correct them below. --TomFrom: Thomas Sheehan [mailto:tsheehan@stanford.edu] Cc: '' Cc: On Jan 31, 2013, at 11:25 AM, Thomas Sheehan wrote:“[Seyn] braucht die Untergehenden undhat, wo ein Seiendes erscheint, diese schoner-eignet, sich zugewiesen. Das ist die Wesung
- [CLEAN COPY: BEING IS MEANINGFULNESS -- TEXTS](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/clean-copy-being-is-meaningfulness-texts/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan Sorry for the messy copy of the last posting. Herewith (I hope) a cleaner copy.Dear friends,Just to confirm Ted Kisiel’s be-ing is meaningfulness here are some citations, chosen at random from the earliest lecture courses and writings of Heidegger. –Tom 1.The category of meaningfulness indicates how objects are in life
- [CROSSINGS](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/crossings/) - Written By: David Kleinberg-Levin Crossing Heidegger with any other philosopher might be interesting and revealing. Derrida is interesting and important, but not exceptional. Try crossing Heidegger's path with Habermas or Benjamin or with Malebranche or with Locke, Berkeley, and Hume or with William James and Whitehead or with Mauthner or with Tarski, Carnap, and
- [CRITIQUE OF FOUR POSITIONS](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/critique-of-four-positions/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan Dear friends,For those who may be interested, I attach a short text that discussesfour possible errors in Heidegger scholarship, namely, that 1. and , in Heidegger's sense of those terms, were operative in, say, the Jurassic Period, before human beings appeared; 2. Ereignis is just another name for, and is
- [CAN'T SEND BEURON-ARCHIVE COPY](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/cant-send-beuron-archive-copy/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan Dear friends,For reasons beyond my ken, I can’t email the copy that comes directly from the Beuron Archives – it gets bounced back as “too large,” even though it is under 8.00 Mbytes. . . . Sorry, but no loss. The copy you should have already received is the exact
- [CONTRA "BEING-HERE/THERE"](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/contra-being-here-there/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan Dear friends, My hesitation about translating Dasein as "being-here" or "being-there" is based on Heidegger's 1964 letter to Jean Beaufret: "Da-sein" is a key word of my thinking and thus the occasion for major misunderstandings. For me, "Da-sein" does not mean the same as "Here I am!" [me voil !]
- [But Is "Panpsychism" Really a Big Practical Joke?](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/but-is-panpsychism-really-a-big-practical-joke/) - Written By: eric d. meyer Dear Heideggerians: Thanks for your controversial responses. I think I agree with Mr. Weinberger that the Nagel/Strawson/Chalmers discussions of "panpsychism" are helpful in getting Anglo-Americans to grapple with Dasein as "In-der-Welt-sein," which could also be "thought" as embodied mind. My point was certainly that "thinking" "In-der-Welt-sein" from an essentially
- [But the deepest meaning of Being is LETTING](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/but-the-deepest-meaning-of-being-is-letting/) - Hi, all, Just a note to follow-up on what Reg and David have said in their posts--and to keep in view what Heidegger stated most firmly and clearly in the seminar in Le Thor 11 September 1969: "It is a matter here of understanding that the deepest meaning of Being is letting (Lassen)." GA 15:363
- [COMING DISCUSSIONS OF THE SCHWARZEN HEFTEN](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/coming-discussions-of-the-schwarzen-heften/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan http://www.heidegger.uni-wuppertal.de/aktuelles.html Thomas Sheehan Stanford University Stanford, CA 94305-2165 650 723-3322 http://religiousstudies.stanford.edu/people/tom-sheehan/
- [Brutalitas](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/brutalitas/) - I wrote: Note that the "enterprising blogger" is writing on a neo-fascist site. Against such uses of Heidegger, we will have to publicize the extensive attacks on (at least the official or predominant) Nazism in the notebooks. A year or more ago I shared such a passage with the list, about "brutalitas." I can repost
- [Bow out](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/bow-out/) - Written By: ERIC J SANDBERG Tom: The blithering idiot is leaving the in-box! I see now that you can't have change across the Heideggerian oeuvre and must deny any turn in order to elevate the Analytic of Dasein above the Seinsfrage. Can't go there. But thank you very much for some thoughtful, if fitful,
- [Bulletin Heideggérien](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/bulletin-heideggerien/) - The 2015 issue of the Bulletin heidegg rien is now available: https://www.uclouvain.be/cps/ucl/doc/isp/documents/Bhdg_2015.pdf Contents: LIMINAIRES ........................................................................................................... 4 I. La r ception arabe de Heidegger , par Kata MOSER .............................. 4 II. Heidegger und die Juden . Chronique du colloque international du Martin-Heidegger-Institut, Wuppertal, 30 octobre-1er novembre 2014 , par M d lina GUZUN ................................................................................................. 17 III. Schwarze
- [CORRECTED ESSAY ON EMMANUEL FAYE](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/corrected-essay-on-emmanuel-faye/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan Dear friends, My thanks to all of you who provided corrections to the text send out the other day. Attached is the corrected version. I welcome any criticisms, further corrections, or comments. Feel free, if you wish, to send it to anyone you want. Best regards, Tom Attachments-378/2015 FAYE AND
- [Brit Phenom Soc doc give-away](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/brit-phenom-soc-doc-give-away/) - The Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology is celebrating its 46th Year, and has made some of its classic papers available to all, until the end of the year, including two by Heidegger. http://explore.tandfonline.com/page/ah/rbsp-editors-pick your pal,Pete
- [CORRECTION to last post: Read "[2b] . . .hält die Lichtung des Seins aus"](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/correction-to-last-post-read-2b-halt-die-lichtung-des-seins-aus/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan that is: [2b] . . . h lt die Lichtung des Seins aus [rather than "halt. . ."] -- Thomas Sheehan Stanford University Stanford, CA 94305-2165 650 723-3322http://religiousstudies.stanford.edu/people/tom-sheehan/
- [CUNY CONFERENCE IN 2012](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/cuny-conference-in-2012/) - Written By: David Kleinberg-Levin I was present, slipping in quietly and incognito. I thought there was a good deal of tension tactfully covered up in their exchanges. Wolin really is a very poor, biased reader of Heidegger. He is a highly intelligent man, but when it comes to Heidegger, he cannot let go of
- [Call for papers on Heidegger in Chinese](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/call-for-papers-on-heidegger-in-chinese/) - Lin Ma writes: I was given the task as part of my work to edit the Chinese-language philosophy journal of my faculty. Since next year is the 40th anniversary of Heidegger's death, I'm planning to have a Heidegger volume. However, because our journal has not yet been listed in any important academic index in China,
- [But Consider: Being is NOT dependent on the human being](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/but-consider-being-is-not-dependent-on-the-human-being/) - With respect to a recent response to my earlier post, I would point out that there are multiple texts that challenge the hard-line positioning of the "new paradigm." As I point out in "Heidegger's Way of Being" (pp. 14-20), Heidegger himself sometimes pointedly stated that Being is "independent" (unabhaengig) of the human being (pp. 16-17).
- [But what did Parmenides and Heraclitus *fail* to see?](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/but-what-did-parmenides-and-heraclitus-fail-to-see/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan . . . that is, didn't see at all, either thematically or unthematically? Or did Heidegger merely "thematize" what was unthematic or implicit in their work? (Spoiler: the answer is No.) Tom On Sat, Jan 16, 2016 at 2:35 PM, Richard Capobianco wrote: Dear Reg, my answer would be
- [Call for papers: Special Issue of Techne on Philosophy of Technology in the Age of the Anthropocene](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/call-for-papers-special-issue-of-techne-on-philosophy-of-technology-in-the-age-of-the-anthropocene/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan Dear colleagues,Please find below the call for papers for a Special Issue of Techne on Philosophy of Technology in the Age of the Anthropocene. Can you please forward this call to colleagues who may be interested to contribute? Kind regards,dr. Vincent Blok MBAAssociate Professor at the Management Science and Philosophy
- [Call for Papers for conference on "Heidegger in the Islamicate World"](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/call-for-papers-for-conference-on-heidegger-in-the-islamicate-world/) - Written By: Heidegger Dear Colleagues: Please find attached a PDF of a call for papers for a conference to be held in Bern from November 2nd to 4th, 2016 on "Heidegger in the Islamicate World". Questions may be address to Kata Moser of the University of Bern who can be reached at kata.moser@wbkolleg.unibe.ch Best regards,
- [British Society for Phenomenology Annual Conference](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/british-society-for-phenomenology-annual-conference/) - Written By: Matthew Barnard Dear All, I just wanted to make you aware of an upcoming UK conference on the topic of "The Future of Phenomenology" by the British Society for Phenomenology. The conference will be in Manchester from Friday 2nd until Sunday 4th September. If you are interested, information can be found at
- [boredom](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/boredom/) - "Tu le connais, lecteur, ce monster delicat," Charles Baudelaire(You know it, reader, this delicate monster) Can one complain of boredom? In profound boredom one is to let an oppressive lack of oppression cohere "so as first to be at all equal to that profound need and to be open for it, so as to truly experience
- [broader concerns?](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/broader-concerns/) - Aren't transforming the human into Da-sein and the question of the truth of being (or beyng) the same? Das Da is the un-hiddenness that das Ereignis would ground. How do recent insights into die Bewegtheit des Da-seins fit in with the broader concern with grounding das Da and the future ones of "the last god"? Perhaps this is to
- [breaking off](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/breaking-off/) - Dear Forum, It is in a spirit of courtesy that I inform you of my going out, although I understand such fraternising is frowned upon. The main reason for this disclosure is that I mean to expand, at a later date, on certain topics that are relevant now (such as transformation and the grounding of Da-sein as found in "The Origin of the
- [By mistake . . .](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/by-mistake/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan Dear friends, By mistake, this exchange may have not gone out to all. Tom On Oct 31, 2017, at 2:56 PM, Thomas Sheehan wrote: Dear Richard, 1. You wrote: . . enigmatic "inceptions" of clearings, moments like theophanies, when a few human beings respond to happenings that are not
- [But puzzles remain](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/but-puzzles-remain/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan Dear Richard P. , Thanks, this is helpful. (I tend to see a bit more consistency in Hd's treatment, but that's another matter). Yet puzzles remain. 1. How does Sein/Ereignis Lichtung/Dawhen Lichtung/Da is already Sein? 2. How reconcile 2.1 Ereignis is (only) another name for Sein (Richard C.) 2.2 Ereignis
- [CFP: Heidegger and Music](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/cfp-heidegger-and-music/) - Sent on behalf of Joshua Spier, joshua.spier@flinders.edu.au. Attachments-379/Call for Chapters_Heidegger & Music.docx
- [Brief Thoughts On Heidegger's Tragic Interpretation Of The Current Age](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/brief-thoughts-on-heideggers-tragic-interpretation-of-the-current-age/) - Hi group! I've mentioned elsewhere that in the later Zollikon Seminars, Heidegger/Medard Boss say: Medard Boss: "Our patients force us to see the human being in his essential ground because the modem neuroses of boredom and meaninglessness can no longer be drowned out by glossing over or covering up particular symptoms of illness. If one
- [Call for Proposals -- Teaching Heidegger: On Education, Teaching and Learning](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/call-for-proposals-teaching-heidegger-on-education-teaching-and-learning/) - Colleagues, Greetings! I am seeking chapter proposals for a proposed book with working title Teaching Heidegger: On Education, Teaching and Learning, hopefully to be published by Rowman & Littlefield as part of the New Heidegger Research series, edited by Gregory Fried and Richard Polt. I am looking for chapters by philosophers, educators, and other thinkers/researchers
- [Book orders](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/book-orders/) - A few minutes ago, I notified the Forum about my new book "Heidegger on Truth: Its Essence and Its Fate." Our ever-alert web site co-ordinator, Richard Ackermann, noted that I'd failed to include a link to the publisher for ordering the book. The University of Toronto Press offers a discount to those who pre-order at
- [Bravo for Heidegger Studies/Spanish translation of "Heidegger's Way of Being"](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/bravo-for-heidegger-studies-spanish-translation-of-heideggers-way-of-being/) - It's great to learn of these new titles from friends, colleagues, and HC members, and it would appear that Heidegger studies is alive and well!May I add to the good news with the announcement that the Spanish translation of Heidegger's Way of Being is forthcoming this month from G. Escolar, Madrid. I've attached the cover
- [brief essay](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/brief-essay/) - Hello all, Attached below is my brief essay using Heidegger in the struggle against evasion of climate change. Because of my medical condition I was not planning to travel in-person to the HC meeting, but Roisin had graciously offered to have me present the paper there electronically. Since the meeting has been cancelled, I m
- [Call for essays for a new collection "HEIDEGGER AND THE HOLY"](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/call-for-essays-for-a-new-collection-heidegger-and-the-holy/) - First, my regards to everyone in these difficult times. I post the following Call for Essays. Please do not use the Forum or the Forum email for inquiries or exchanges; kindly use the email address provided at the end below. Yours, Richard C. Call For Essays for a new collection of essays on the topic
- [Book review](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/book-review/) - In shameless self-promotion, here is the NDPR review of my book, Dwelling in Speech II https://ndpr.nd.edu/news/proto-phenomenology-language-acquisition-orality-and-literacy-volume-ii-dwelling-in-speech-ii/ Proto-Phenomenology, Language Acquisition, Orality, and Literacy: Dwelling in Speech II // Reviews // Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews // University of Notre Dame Written with elegance and ease, Lawrence J. Hatab's book argues that language is embedded in the lived
- [Conference program, banquet, and proceedings](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/conference-program-banquet-and-proceedings/) - Dear Heidegger Circle members, The conference program has now been posted as a PDF that you can download from this page: http://www.heideggercircle.org/2011.html On the same page you will find a link that allows you to pay $20 per person for a vegetarian or non-vegetarian meal at the banquet on May 7, using a credit card or PayPal account. If
- [Congratulations](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/congratulations/) - Written By: McCumber, John Greg, Nice article! It’s good to see someone telling the truth in a rational way. But so rare...What a dreadful place this country has again come to...but greetings from LA! John McC
- [Common Ground](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/common-ground/) - Not having a chance to review all the posts in the various strings, I posted this last night: Hello, all, I am away at the moment, and I have not had any chance to check the Forum until today. I see this exchange, and I would love to weigh in more extensively when I
- [Congratulations Richard Polt](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/congratulations-richard-polt/) - Written By: Congratulations on winning the Roger Fortin award for amoung other things being a great teacher. Someone with more tech savy than me might pick up the Xavier magazine for Spring 2013 and post the anoouncement. The accolades couldn't be nicer and I'm somewhat sure are deserving. What a difference a 'teacher' can
- [Coda on Being is (not) meaning](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/coda-on-being-is-not-meaning/) - Good morning, all, I would like to offer one additional note on the matter of the reduction of Being to meaning. The text from "Recollection in Metaphysics," which I posted earlier in the month and which generated multiple interesting discussions, raised the issue of whether Heidegger, at least at some points
- [Coda to the Coda](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/coda-to-the-coda/) - Hello, all, I was away for the weekend, and today I see that there have been many thoughtful comments made in response to my Coda of last week. I will have to think through all of them, but for the moment may I simply note that Tom's initial "four questions/points" are disappointing. First, he very
- [Can Martin Heidegger's "Thinking of Being" Be Made Compatible with "PanPsychism"?](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/can-martin-heideggers-thinking-of-being-be-made-compatible-with-panpsychism/) - Written By: eric d. meyer Dear Heideggerians: At a recent conference, I was surprised to find that Anglo-American philosophers (Nagel, Strawson, Chalmers etc.) are promulgating something called "panpsychism," which (as I take it!) asserts that "consciousness" is the basic "stuff" of the cosmos and can be found across the spectrum from electrons, quarks, and
- [Congratulations to Pol!](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/congratulations-to-pol/) - From Newsletter for Phenomenology: Pol Vandevelde (Marquette University) has been awarded thePrix Mercierby the Institut Sup rieur de Philosophie of the Universit de Louvain for his bookHeidegger and the Romantics: The Literary Invention of Meaning, Routledge 2012 _______________ http://robertdstolorow.googlepages.com http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/feeling-relating-existing
- [Carl Schmitt, Martin Heidegger, & the Nazis: Who's The Enemy?](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/carl-schmitt-martin-heidegger-the-nazis-whos-the-enemy/) - Written By: eric d. meyer Dear Heideggerians: Antonio Cerella sent me an English translation of Carl Schmitt's Staat, Bewegung, Volk, which maybe helps to clarify who might be "the enemy" in Nazi propaganda (...and in Martin Heidegger's texts?...) of early 1933-1934. There's really no question that Schmitt's tract is Nazi propaganda of the most
- [Chronicle of Higher Education article](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/chronicle-of-higher-education-article/) - February 24, 2014 Release of Heidegger s Black Notebooks Reignites Debate Over Nazi Ideology Jens Grossmann/Laif for The Chronicle We knew that he had expressed anti-Semitism as private insights, but this shows anti-Semitism tied in to his philosophy, says Peter Trawny, director of the Martin Heidegger Institute at the U. of Wuppertal. By Paul Hockenos
- [Clearing](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/clearing/) - Written By: ERIC J SANDBERG Circlers All: Forgive me this last before I head for bed. "The thinking that proceeds after "Being and Time," in that it gives up the word 'meaning of being' in favor of 'truth of being,' henceforth emphasizes the openness of being itself, rather than the openness of Dasein in
- [Conference: DELIMITING LIMITS, 8th Annual University of South Florida Graduate Student Conference](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/conference-delimiting-limits-8th-annual-university-of-south-florida-graduate-student-conference/) - Written By: Megan Flocken I think this event might appeal to many who subscribe to the list. Please pass on the notice to any students who share our interests. squaring with Circle, megan -- DELIMITING LIMITS, 8th Annual University of South Florida Graduate Student Conference, March 13-14, 2015 Visiting Keynote: Mark Wrathall Faculty Keynote:
- [Concerning Jeff Bricker's recent post](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/concerning-jeff-brickers-recent-post/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan Dear Jeff and friends, Can anyone help with the following query and hypothetical Thomistic objection? Thanks in advance. Tom Thesis #5: Human beings attain their essence by attending to and naming or thinking Being (and thereby learning to dwell). Query: 1.Is one to understand Being (das Sein, as above) as
- [Chronicle of Higher Ed](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/chronicle-of-higher-ed/) - Written By: sorrowandsmiles All: There appears to be an article by Richard Wolin in the Chronicle of Higher Education regarding Heidegger's Notebooks, but for subscribing members only. Does anybody have access to this journal? If so, would you be willing to share the article with me? (It was published today, it seems.) I'm eager
- [call it enthusiasm](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/call-it-enthusiasm/) - Being essentially happens as an integral phenomenon, a clearing, liberating entities for our grasp through essences. Essences are not concepts but the exercise of ek-sistence in its comportment towards... The essence of a thing is its exercise in the clearing of being. While the essence of a hammer is hammering it would belong to a
- [concealment as undecided decision](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/concealment-as-undecided-decision/) - The clearing essentially happens in a certain way that while disclosing entities as a whole at the same time conceals. Let's say we pick up the gauntlet of the nothing as excess of refusal and Ereignis as hesitant self-withholding. Doesn't concealment become historical undecided decision? The essential limit to our knowledge would be the knowledge
- [captain's log, stardate: a question about Heidegger and Hegel](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/captains-log-stardate-a-question-about-heidegger-and-hegel/) - No swots aboard the Enterprise! Only scholars and amateurs.Things are quiet. However, my reading has gone well so far today. Heidegger stopped me in my tracks with his meditations on the will and redemption in What is Called Thinking? It sends me back to early encounters with Friedrich Nietzsche. In fact it put me at
- [confusion](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/confusion/) - Dear Forum, My last e-mail was a shy attempt to think the appropriating event as reciprocity between the clearing as we find it (thrown into it) and, as a response to this find, projection (although we would be already projecting too). As regards the clearing I am confused. Is it human or is it something unintelligent? Is it temporal or
- [CfP: On the History of Being after the Black Notebooks](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/cfp-on-the-history-of-being-after-the-black-notebooks/) - Written By: Matthew Barnard Dear all, I would like to draw your attention to the following call for papers for a special issue of the Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology. The title is On the History of Being after the Black Notebooks, and the full details can be found in the BSP
- [can Dasein change?](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/can-dasein-change/) - Written By: Arkadi Choufrine Dear all-- As Kant shows in his Second Analogy, "the concept of alteration [under which all change falls] presupposes one and the same subject as existing with two opposite determinations, and therefore as abiding" (KRV, B 233). But any abiding subject is ontologically vorhanden. So, in order to change Dasein
- [Change of email](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/change-of-email/) - Written By: Richard Hearn Please update my contact information to show that my new email address is rick@hwlawpro.com. Richard A. Hearn, M.D. Partner OFFICE 208.232.6101 FAX208.232.6109 Boise, Pocatello, & Idaho Falls
- [clearing, which clearing?](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/clearing-which-clearing/) - Dear Forum, I have followed the exchange of e-mails between Larry Berger and Thomas Sheehan with a certain amount of excitement. It seems that maybe there might be the occasion to focus on a determinate clearing, i.e., that of hesitant self-withholding. The question becomes to what extent does one subscribe to Heidegger's narrative of two
- [Carlo Galli on the Black Notebooks](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/carlo-galli-on-the-black-notebooks/) - http://ilmanifesto.info/il-logos-disperso-nella-foresta-nera/#
- [Carlo Galli on Black Notebooks](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/carlo-galli-on-black-notebooks/) - Dear All: I am a new member. Hello to everybody. Two questions: could anybody suggest a good translation of Das Walten des Brauches? It seems to me "reign of need" sacrifices several crucial nuances and is misleading. Also, I am reading Donatella di Cesare's Heidegger & Sons. Di Cesare claims---I am interpreting her--that the love
- [Coda to Dasein and Evolution](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/coda-to-dasein-and-evolution/) - Dear Tom, A coda to my last post: the 'als Existieriende' in my citation from the 1941 text from GA6.2 is, I think, the same as the 'als Seiendes' we discussed from 9 of Sein und Zeit last week, and means Dasein. Not a or the Dasein, but through being-the-there as what it means to become Dasein. It
- [Concerning Da-sein, Lichtung, Ereignis](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/concerning-da-sein-lichtung-ereignis/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan . Dear friends, Two things, if I may: 1. Another text that says Da-sein is the clearing --- GA 70: 17.25-26: "Das ereignete 'Da-' [1] ereignet sich, [2] d.h. geh rt in das Ereignis [3] und ist deshalb das Da-sein." The appropriated clearing (1)occurs inappropriation,(2)that is: the clearing belongs to
- [Confused](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/confused/) - Written By: Anna Cullen-Wynn Hello. Now i'm confused. Both texts appear in the Letter on Humanism. So, is there a difference or not beween Dasein as the clearing of Being and Sein as the clearing itself? That distinction is what I understood from the Nov. 17 message that was recently quoted. Can anyone clear
- [Can someone suggest a guide to Hegel's Lectures on Aesthetics (in English) for someone whose grip on Hegel is not rock solid](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/can-someone-suggest-a-guide-to-hegels-lectures-on-aesthetics-in-english-for-someone-whose-grip-on-hegel-is-not-rock-solid/) - All: I want to read Heidegger's "The Origin of a Work of Art" against Hegel's Lectures on Aesthetics. I have an OK surface understanding of OWA but I want to read it again, at a deeper level, after I get a grip on Hegel's lectures. Thank David Leech
- [Conduct in the Forum](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/conduct-in-the-forum/) - Written By: Heidegger To the Forum: I would like to remind that Heidegger Google Group that making a comment about another member by name in a disparaging or insulting way will result that person being immediately suspended from the Heidegger Circle Group. I will also remind that you that directing a comment to that
- [Concrete](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/concrete/) - Dear Colleagues, I'm working through some issues in Being and Time, and a pivotal term, for me, is 'concrete.' This is a term that Heidegger never defines, or even directly addresses in any focused way, but that seems also to have a regulative function. For instance, on page 1 he says "Die konkrete Ausarbeitung der
- [Can someone tell me what is the English translation for άρχαί, αίτίαι?](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/can-someone-tell-me-what-is-the-english-translation-for-άρχαί-αίτίαι/) - This is contained in the following quotation from Lilly's translation of The Principle of Reason, p. 110: "...in as much as it conceals its essence, being allows something else to come to the fore, namely ground/reason, in the shape of , , of rationes, of causae, of Principles, Ursachen [causes] and Rational grounds." My "go to" when I run into Greek
- [Can the Lichtung be "closed off"? If so, in what sense?](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/can-the-lichtung-be-closed-off-if-so-in-what-sense/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan Dear Arkadi, I think what's at issue here is the fundamental difference between existential (i.e., essential, structural) and existentiel (personal). The first is immer-schon-gewesen, always already the case, whereas the second is a matter of circumstances. I am always already Sein zum Tode, even when I personally forget, overlook, or am oblivious
- [Can the Lichtung be "opened up"? If so, in what sense?](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/can-the-lichtung-be-opened-up-if-so-in-what-sense/) - Written By: Arkadi Choufrine Dear Tom-- Given that the Lichtung (as existentiAl) was never (and could not ever be) closed off, what is the point of saying that it is "opened up"? How can one possibly "open" something that was never closed? ~Arkadi Cc: heideggercircle@googlegroups.com Dear Arkadi, I think what's at issue here is
- [Clio](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/clio/) - Heidegger perhaps challenged Clio in her own field. So isn't he destined to lose? One might say that facticity roots mortals in the soil or even, which can be the same, in the dirt. But then this is to rely on a heideggerian term to explain why one cannot beat Clio at her own game. With Heidegger fame
- [citation needed](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/citation-needed/) - Hello, I'm going through thirty years of journal entries getting them ready for a more responsible relationship to being-toward-death. This one is embarrassingly vague, but I found it very suggestive at the time, and didn't bother to pause long enough to specify the reference. Leaving my own thoughts on the matter aside, I begin by
- [Conference: Heidegger: Dwelling, Thinking, and the Ethical Life, October 27–29, 2017](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/conference-heidegger-dwelling-thinking-and-the-ethical-life-october-27-29-2017/) - Conference: Heidegger: Dwelling, Thinking, and the Ethical Life, October 27--29, 2017 http://ophen.org/events/conference-heidegger-dwelling-thinking-ethical-life-october-27-29-2017/
- [CfP: Phenomenology: Theory and Practice (Brighton, UK)](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/cfp-phenomenology-theory-and-practice-brighton-uk/) - Written By: Matthew Barnard Dear all, I'm just writing to make you aware of a Call for Papers for the British Society for Phenomenology Annual Conference, which will be held from September 11-13 2017 in the University of Brighton in the United Kingdom. The deadline for submissions to the Call for Papers on the
- [Chinese version of "Emergency of Being" available](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/chinese-version-of-emergency-of-being-available/) - I have six spare copies of the Chinese translation of my book The Emergency of Being: On Heidegger's "Contributions to Philosophy." I'd be happy to mail a copy to whoever would like one---just send me an e-mail. Richard
- [Conference of the International Society for Hermeneutics and Science](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/conference-of-the-international-society-for-hermeneutics-and-science/) - Written By: babette.babich There is a meeting of the International Society for Hermeneutics and Science. upcoming this 22 -- 24 August 2017, Baden (by Vienna), Austria several members of the Heidegger Circle are attending and my own lecture is bears on a forthcoming book collectionedited on Hermeneutic Philosophies of Social Science which features several
- [Categories of a priori](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/categories-of-a-priori/) - > On Monday, October 23, 2017 9:15 AM, "Polt, Richard" wrote:> Does he mean that this essence is timelessly a priori?> Is it temporally a priori ("always already")? Timelessly a priori means:Always a given in our universe; e.g. geometry, ratio of circumference and diameter of a circle.A priori in the Jurassic. Temporally a priori means:Always already for dasein. Whenever
- [Concluding Unresolved Postscript to Shane's post of 3 February](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/concluding-unresolved-postscript-to-shanes-post-of-3-february/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan Dear Shane, I hadn't known you were translating GA 55. Prosit! And I think at this point we have to agree to disagree. I've given it my best shot, and I appreciate and accept that it hasn't convinced you. Below, a few thoughts in response to your last post. Best
- [Classics](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/classics/) - Dear Forum, I don't know what to say about Heidegger's classicism... In fact I don't what to say about Classics. However, it seems to me to be very important: is the human being with a modern education ignorant in a way that the human being with a classical education is not? That is, is the
- [closing and opening at once](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/closing-and-opening-at-once/) - Dear Forum, If the presentation of a wreath can both lay to rest a history and mark an inception corresponding to this twofold action would be der Entschluss, a resolution or a de-termination of existence, that dis-closes (erschliesst) the situation. It is an action of closure and disclosure. Why should this not be one of ending and inception? Furthermore,
- [clarification/theses after Heidegger](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/clarification-theses-after-heidegger/) - Dear Forum, Das Ge-Stell is a permutation of das Ereignis. Das Ge-Stell can speak to us as das Ereignis. Das Ereignis can dis-own the human and being into their Eigentliche. Such Ent-eignung would clear the way for a more inceptual experience of beings and above all of being. In short: change will come if das
- [Connectedness](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/connectedness/) - Written By: Kim Doyle Connectedness Two poles in our lives: Birth is an event that is never completely past, Death is never just a yet-to-come. We strrreeetttcchhhh out unifying the two black holes, seeking to be authentically whole, and wanting to see and be seen. We are the in-between. Kim Doyle
- [DAS GEVIERT](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/das-geviert/) - Written By: David Kleinberg-Levin If one reads Heidegger as offering merely lovely, enchanting metaphors, one loses, indeed betrays, the experience in question. I take him always to be writing faithfully "aus der Erfahrung des Denkens". So, then, taking "das Geviert" seriously, hence as saying something concretely possible about our worldly experience, could one see
- [correction in previous post](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/correction-in-previous-post/) - So a typo doesn't unnecessarily confuse, in the last paragraph, please read "are themselves led" in place of "are themselves lead." The lesson to be learned here is don't post after 11:00 P.M. Allen On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 10:05 PM, allen scult wrote: Dear Bob, Thanks for your post. The distinction you
- [DAVID LEVIN"S RESPONSE](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/david-levins-response/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan Dear David,Thank you very much for your posting, which opens up a very important question on which I would like to dialogue with you.You write:“Whereas, in SuZ, Heidegger . . . proceeds to address the Seinsfrage in terms of the existential structures he illuminates in his Daseinanalytik, his subsequent thinking
- [DID BEING "PRESENCE" AMOEBAS?](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/did-being-presence-amoebas/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan Dear friends,I'd like to pose a question:When Heidegger declares that being [das Sein] "presences" beings (GA 15: 363.24-26 = 59.3-4: "das Sein l t das Seiende anwesen"), is he saying that being "presenced" amoebas during the Proterozoic era, two billion years ago before homo sapiens?Or is he referring to the
- [DIALOGUE WITH CAPOBIANCO AND POLT](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/dialogue-with-capobianco-and-polt/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan Dear friends,Many thanks to Richard Capobianco (henceforth Richard C.) and Richard Polt (Richard P.) for their responses to my "Critique of Four Positions." They have certainly helped to clarify matters.That critique dealt with what I called four erroneous theses, namely that 1. and , in Heidegger's sense of those terms,
- [DATING THE HUSSERL HEIDEGGER PHOTO](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/dating-the-husserl-heidegger-photo/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan Dear friends,I think that the date “22 October 1927” refers not to the photo but to the letter from Heidegger to Husserl regarding Heidegger’s remarks on the Encyclopedia Britannica article on phenomenology. The letter is translated beneath the photo.TomFrom: Babette Babich [mailto:babette.babich@gmail.com] Cc: Thomas Sheehan; heideggercircle@googlegroups.com The date for the
- [DIE SEINSFRAGE](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/die-seinsfrage/) - Written By: David Kleinberg-Levin I argued, in a message earlier today to Tom Sheehan: If the invocation of "being" is a sophisticated philosophical way of expressing the simple wonder , then I want to say that that wonderful fact is not dependent on
- [DAVID: SEYN WITH AND WITHOUT DASEIN](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/david-seyn-with-and-without-dasein/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan Dear David, Could you clarify the distinction between (1) "Seyn . . . in order to occur and be" (without Dasein) and (2) Seyn as presenting, occurring and appearing (wesen) with Dasein? And where might one find this distinction in Heidegger's texts? Thank you. --Tom On Sep 1, 2013, at 11:21 AM, David Kleinberg-Levin
- [DIALOGUS INTERRUPTUS](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/dialogus-interruptus/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan Dear friends, Yes, collegiality and friendship trump any philosophical debate. And yet, those urgent questions still hang in the air, unanswered, just when we were getting to the node of this central question: whether Sein can ever manifest itself without Dasein. What a pity: dialogus interruptus. But perhaps there will
- [DOES HEIDEGGER EQUIVOCATE ON BEING/DASEIN?](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/does-heidegger-equivocate-on-being-dasein/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan Dear Richard, You're quite right about reading Plato and Kierkegaard, and even Heidegger in his hide-and-seek moments. However, I doubt that he equivocated on major, utterly central issues in his thought, such as "Being appears only with Dasein." In that case it seems, on the basis of the overwhelming number
- [DO ANIMALS HAVE SEINSVERSTAENDNIS?](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/do-animals-have-seinsverstaendnis/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan I'm terribly sorry, Babette. Let me cite the omitted passage: "(Thank you Shane for noting the world-indigence of animals in Heidegger's view and certainly Heidegger distinguishes, in good Aristotelian fashion and like any other Thomist, between human beings and animals. But human beings are animals and are often as benommen,
- [DIALOGUS INTERRUPTUS REDIVIVUS?](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/dialogus-interruptus-redivivus/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan Dear Babette, Disagreement is fine. But what? No evidence for your claims, least of all for your insinuations? Best, --Tom On Sep 10, 2013, at 3:01 PM, Babette Babich wrote: Happy to agree to disagree with you Tom!CheersBabette Babette Babich Professor of Philosophy Fordham University, The Jesuit University of
- [Cratylus](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/cratylus/) - Written By: Shane Ewegen To the Forum: I hope all is well. I wanted to alert you all to my new book on Plato's Cratylus. Among other things, I argue that Plato's view of language anticipates, in many important ways, Heidegger's own. I would eagerly receive any and all comments / criticisms about the
- [DAS WESEN DES SEINS](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/das-wesen-des-seins/) - Written By: David Kleinberg-Levin Tom, your #1 puzzles me, so I cannot get any further in addressing your questions. In my view, there is no Wesen, no essence, nothing, enabling Sein. There is nothing behind Sein! I understand "Wesen" not as enabling, but as simply the presencing of Sein, the wonderful, incredible fact that
- [DAVID KLEINBERG-LEVIN: DAS WESEN DES SEINS](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/david-kleinberg-levin-das-wesen-des-seins/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan Dear David, You wrote: "In my view, there is no Wesen, no essence, nothing, enabling Sein." (0) [By"Wesen" Heidegger does not mean "essence" but rather: that which makes something possible and necessary; that which accounts for the presence of something.] (1) And we do have Heidegger saying that his question
- [DID AND WILL BEING ITSELF SHOW ITSELF? (Henry Dicks)](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/did-and-will-being-itself-show-itself-henry-dicks/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan Dear Henry, I'm not so sure -- although I know it's a virtual article of Heideggerian faith that 1.Being Itself did indeed once "show itself" to the Greeks (or at least to the pre-Socratics) and 2.Being Itself will show itself again to paid-up Heideggerians (but probably not to analytic philosophers).
- [DIE ZEIT ARTICLES ON GA 94](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/die-zeit-articles-on-ga-94/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan http://www.zeit.de/suche/index?q=heidegger Thomas Sheehan Stanford University Stanford, CA 94305-2165 650 723-3322http://religiousstudies.stanford.edu/people/tom-sheehan/
- [DEREK'S POST](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/dereks-post/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan Dear Derek, Just some bare-bones notes on your recent post. Best wishes, Tom the Fourfold I do not understand the “divinities” element of the Fourfold, even after reading some of the best (and even currently unpublished) commentaries on this. I’ve not found a clear, much less convincing, explanation of the
- [considering others’ misplaced problem with Freud](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/considering-others-misplaced-problem-with-freud/) - Written By: Gary E Davis The main issue in the short Considerations passage on Freud (PDF p. 7; GA 96: 218) is that the given "...'thinking'..." about Freud is concealing the issue of being, It is "in advance exclud[ing] all 'being' whatsoever, [which] is pure nihilism." You would expect that this would be the
- [DIE SCHICKUNGEN, THE GIVING & THE GIVEN: QUESTIONING THE INTERPRETIVE TRANSLATIONS](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/die-schickungen-the-giving-the-given-questioning-the-interpretive-translations/) - Written By: David Kleinberg-Levin Dear Colleagues: For a long time, I have been obsessively unhappy with interpretations that seem to me to perpetuate, even whilst resisting, a certain residue of ontotheology in Heidegger s own words of thought. To be sure, Es gibt does not only mean There is. It also can mean It
- [Critique of the analytic Heidegger](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/critique-of-the-analytic-heidegger/) - Written By: Jethro Masís Dear all, I just published a paper on one attempt to naturalize Dasein in cognitive science. ABSTRACT: This paper deals with the neo-Heideggerian approach in cognitive science as espoused by Michael Wheeler in his Reconstructing the Cognitive World: The Next Step (2005). According to Wheeler, this next step amounts to
- [Consensus, elephants, and materia irrdendi](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/consensus-elephants-and-materia-irrdendi/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan Dear Laurence, Yes, agreed, of course. And yes, consensus may well be overrated, as you say. But so too is Derridigerrian "Anything goes." When I ask "Is there any consensus . . . ?" I'm really asking for any collective wisdom of the colleagues, something that I could learn from.
- [Correction: It should have been "HineinGEhaltenheit in das Nichts."](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/correction-it-should-have-been-hineingehaltenheit-in-das-nichts/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan Re anticipatory resoluteness: As Heidegger wrote in a very different context: "Who knows? Who can say?" (GA 7: 285.34--286.1 = 120.21--23). On Sun, Mar 15, 2015 at 12:47 PM, Thomas Sheehan wrote: Dear Richard, You write: "It [= the topic of the gods] was patently very important to Heidegger.
- [DA-SEIN - LICHTUNG - SEIN](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/da-sein-lichtung-sein/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan Dear friends, What to make of the attached passage? And also, what to make of : GA 73, 1: 642.28--29: "das Dasein ist das je vereinzelte 'es', das gibt; das erm glicht und ist das 'es gibt.'" Best regards, Tom On Tue, May 26, 2015 at 4:21 AM, Richard Capobianco
- [Correction](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/correction/) - Written By: ERIC J SANDBERG Sorry: Let me correct the post script myself. Being towards the end is the existential that has to be lived as resole-towards-death, death of course being understood ontologically and not biologically. LOL Be good
- [Continuation for Nate](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/continuation-for-nate/) - Written By: ERIC J SANDBERG Nate: The thrust of what I was trying to get to in my last e-pistle was that there is a motion in Heidegger unto reversal. He -- if begrudgingly -- accepts an understanding of Being at the outset of "B&T" as the most 'general' of concepts so long as
- [DIE LICHTUNG](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/die-lichtung/) - Written By: David Kleinberg-Levin Good day! Heidegger tried to persuade us to think of the Lichtung as a clearing, not as illumination. But I suggest that he either changed his mind or else continued a Schwebung between these two meanings. Under the influence of the Greeks---from Heraclitus and Plato in particular, but also from
- [DIE LICHTUNG as a "non-metaphysical metaphor"](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/die-lichtung-as-a-non-metaphysical-metaphor/) - Written By: Arkadi Choufrine "From time to time, however, he does himself seem freely to resort to metaphor. But when he does, it is always in a non-metaphysical sense, a sense that returns us to the Greek etymology, whereby a meta-phor is a word or assemblage of words that transport, carry, or move us
- [DIE LICHTUNG and DAS LICHT](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/die-lichtung-and-das-licht/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan Dear friends, Heidegger agrees with Fink that the clearing precedes the light. That is, the Da/Offene/Lichtung is prior to das Sein-des-Seienden, which can appear only within the open clearing. "Nicht geht das Licht der Lichtung voraus, sondern umgekehrt die Lichtung geht dem Licht voraus." (GA 15: 231.11-13 = 142.38-39: mistranslated
- [Correction on "das Seiende" from Ellis Dye](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/correction-on-das-seiende-from-ellis-dye/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan Dear friends, Prof. Ellis Dye send the following corrections, for which I'm grateful, about "das Seiende" and another mistake I made in a citation. Best regards, Tom Dear Tom, I have read and heard "das Seiende" or, without the article "Seiendes" in Germany many times and in many contexts. I
- [Continuing the discussion of the transcendental](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/continuing-the-discussion-of-the-transcendental/) - Dear Tom, Here is a little more dialogue on the question of the transcendental. I quote from your responses to my questions, which you sent to me and the list recently. Thanks for all your work on this! Sheehan: How would you translate and interpret: "Der Bezug ist das Seyn selbst, und das Menschenwesen ist
- [DIE SEINSGESCHICHTE](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/die-seinsgeschichte/) - Written By: David Kleinberg-Levin Can Heidegger's "Seinsgeschichte" (or "Seynsgeschichte") be read as a history of the different appropriations of Da-sein---or the different ways that human beings have been appropriated---for being, or rather mindfully becoming, the clearing? Is that how it should be read? Is Heidegger's "Seinsgeschichte" his alternative to, or his variation on, the
- [DER ANDERE ANFANG. ON THE SEINSGESCHICHTE](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/der-andere-anfang-on-the-seinsgeschichte/) - Written By: David Kleinberg-Levin There is also a swirl of questions surrounding "the other beginning." To what does that term refer? Is it [i] the hermeneutic retrieval of a past that has never before been present, retrieving the deeper, abyssal grounding of metaphysics, hence retrieving a more fundamental beginning in the history of the
- [creativity and the truth of being](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/creativity-and-the-truth-of-being/) - Dear Forum, Isn't B&T more about the active life whereas later Heidegger will be more concerned with the work of the thinker and the artist? E.g. "The decision arises in stillness, not as coming to a resolution but as a resoluteness that already grounds truth, i.e., re-creates beings and thus is a creative decision or else is stupor." Contributions
- [Correction to no. 3 in last post](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/correction-to-no-3-in-last-post/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan Read: "the German PARTICLE + participle." On Wednesday, August 10, 2016, Thomas Sheehan wrote: Dear Laurence, You have suggested to me privately that we are talking past each other regarding Dasein, and it would seem you are right. You claim that, for Heidegger, Dasein can never be a .
- [DKL: Agreed on your point here.](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/dkl-agreed-on-your-point-here/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan Dear David, Agreed. Tom On Sun, Aug 21, 2016 at 6:11 PM, David Kleinberg-Levin wrote: Thanks, Tom. I do think that more recognition & emphasis needs to be put on the historiocal forces that are operative in Dasein's predisposition to close itself off to, hence in effect limit, the
- [DID YOU SEE THIS?](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/did-you-see-this/) - http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/21/books/richard-rortys-1998-book-suggested-election-2016-was-coming.html?hpw&rref=arts&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region&region=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well&_r=0 I never liked Rorty personally: a Trojan Horse within Continental Philosophy and a very arrogant, conceited, condescending man who used passive aggressiveness with great skill in his social relations. But his political insight here is impressive. A very similar prophecy was pronounced by former Supreme Court Justice Souter in an interview some time
- [Cormac McCarthy's Ontological Difference](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/cormac-mccarthys-ontological-difference/) - In Cormac McCarthy s The Crossing (pages 41-49, 1994 edition), the second book of his Border Trilogy, Billy Parham, concerned that after some travail all efforts to trap a shewolf have failed, goes down to Animas to see old Don Arnulfo, find out if he could buy a scent off him. Don Arnulfo, old and
- [Could you provide the context?](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/could-you-provide-the-context/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan Dear Richard, Sorry if I overlooked your point. I can't recall the context of your message (below) 0r the text-and-page of the Hd text. Could you advise? Tom You interpret "mit der Gr ndung des Da-seins" as "if and when you are grounded in your existential ex-sistence." I don't quite
- [Considering Ver-](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/considering-ver/) - Written By: William Britt Dear Heideggerians, What thoughts do you have about the semantic range of a couple of (related, I think) Heideggerian coinages? 1) Vergegnung (Bret Davis: 'enregioning'; Shane Ewegen and Julia Assaiante: 'mutual encounter') - Bret takes the ver- as strengthening Gegnen, regioning, while Shane and Julia evidently take it as a
- [das Man](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/das-man/) - das Man, by Julia Schwartz (my wife) www.juliaschwartzart.com
- [Das Sinn des Seienden=Das Sein des Seienden? (Forwards or Backwards?)](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/das-sinn-des-seiendendas-sein-des-seienden-forwards-or-backwards/) - Written By: eric d. meyer Dear Heideggerians, Pr. Sheehan et al: Before joining the controversy over Pr. Sheehan's interpretation of "Das Sinn des Seienden," I'd like to observe that maybe we're just having a debate over the "sense" of "Sinn" (...being "Sinn"-ers all! If not "Holy Sinn-ers"!...). Or over the difference between "Sinn" &
- [DWELLING AS A SOLUTION](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/dwelling-as-a-solution/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan Jeff Bricker wrote:Dear Forum Members,I was under the impression that Heidegger did indeed offer a solution to enframing. It’s called dwelling. --Jeff BrickerDear Jeff,Dwelling comes down to staying within the fourfold (“Aufenthalt im Geviert bei den Dingen” GA 7: 159.1-2), which is the same as the “uns einlassen”: letting ourselves
- [das Ereignis](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/das-ereignis/) - Dear Heidegger Circle, I hesitate to wade in on the debate with Prof. Tom Sheehan as my first contribution to the list, and I hope you'll forgive me if I make points that have been made before, or if I speak out of turn, but I wonder if we are not at risk of moving
- [das Ding](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/das-ding/) - Written By: Shane Ewegen Tom: As always, thank you for a cogent and concise articulation of your position. For me, such statements are exceedingly helpful. I have a question, though, about something you wrote; and, though it was not your main point, I wonder if you might take the time to clarify something for
- [DUELING TEXTS](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/dueling-texts/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan Dear Richard,Yes, of course, I certainly will have a close look at those texts. Thank you. Just preliminarily in that regard: (1)I note that Heidegger says Being “is never dependent upon seienden Menschentum.” He doesn’t say “Dasein.” (2)If he did mean Dasein, that single text that you cite
- [DREW HYLAND ON GA 77](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/drew-hyland-on-ga-77/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan Dear friends, Attached, you will find a PDF of the Andre Schewer lecture that Drew Hyland delivered at SPEP in October of last year. Drew, as most of you know, is a founding member of the Heidegger Circle, a Greek-freak (as in Plato et al.), as well as a writer
- [Das Chinesentum in GA94?](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/das-chinesentum-in-ga94/) - Written By: Adam Knowles Dear HC Members, Does anybody have any insight into Heidegger's use of the phrase "das Chinesentum der Machenschaft" in a discussion of history in GA 94, p. 432. I'll quote some of the passage below, but it is worth referring to the entire entry. I suppose Heidegger is doing little
- [Da-sein](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/da-sein/) - Written By: ERIC J SANDBERG What might the radical displacement of Dasein 'look' like. So much of the difficulty of Heidegger is what he means by 'Da-sein.' Richard P. and Greg F. foreground this difficulty in their 'intro' to the "Intro," "'Dasein' denotes that being for whom Being itself is at issue, for whom
- [Da-'sein,' space-time . . . almost!](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/da-sein-space-time-almost/) - Written By: ERIC J SANDBERG Perhaps, a big Nietzschean perhaps, our question should be asked as a 'plaint,' What happened to Dasein in the turn(ing)? A confabulation might be in order. Imagine Heidegger ending "B&T" and asking whether Being might be thought out of 'temporality?' Imagine the shock! He's begun his 'quest' with the
- [Daseinanalysis](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/daseinanalysis/) - Written By: ERIC J SANDBERG Greetings friends: Anybody else reading/read Alice Holzhey-Kunz? It's more than a little interesting. My first, and remaining 'gut,' reaction is that it's 'Heidegger weak.' It pushes Heidegger too close, surprisingly not towards Binswanger, but towards Freud. Despite all the pronouncement that Dasein is not 'subject' in any usual sense
- [Daseinfrage](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/daseinfrage/) - Written By: ERIC J SANDBERG Tom: Greetings. How close are you to this? By reason of Ereignis -- say for brevities sake -- Being (capital B) LOSES it's sovereignty (Appropriation as constituting a 'beyond") in a 'being-for' that through 'reception' (something like Dasein) allows of a re-negotiation of the Seinsfrage as a 'Dekenfrage?' (Thinking
- [Das ist Alles](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/das-ist-alles/) - Written By: ERIC J SANDBERG Tom: for better or for worse . . . Again, the many thanks for your magnanimity. With respect and admiration, Eric Attachments-364/Tom3.docx
- [Dasein is on its way out](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/dasein-is-on-its-way-out/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/19/opinion/sunday/the-machines-are-coming.html?ref=todayspaper&_r=0
- [Das Heidegger-Lied](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/das-heidegger-lied/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3goPOfcu-JI
- [Da-sein and Die Lichtung in GA 65](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/da-sein-and-die-lichtung-in-ga-65/) - Written By: Lawrence Berger Dear All: In response to Tom's queries, I have reviewed GA 65 for the purpose of coming to a position on the claim that Da-sein is die Lichtung. Both terms are quite prominent in the text. In particular, besides die Lichtung other forms of lichten appear, such as gelichtet, das
- [Das Walten des Brauches](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/das-walten-des-brauches/) - Dear All: I am a new member. Hello to everybody. Two questions: could anybody suggest a good translation of Das Walten des Brauches? It seems to me "reign of need" sacrifices several crucial nuances and is misleading. Also, I am reading Donatella di Cesare's Heidegger & Sons. Di Cesare claims---I am interpreting her--that the love
- [Dasein / wer](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/dasein-wer/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan Dear Laurence, Some thoughts re Dasein / wer: Heidegger frequently distinguishes between the Wasfrage and the Werfrage, the latter pertaining only to existentiel Dasein (GA 24: 170.5-8; cf. GA 66: 148.5). The "wer" is, of course, a formal indication (GA 29/30: 425.20, .26) that finds its meaning only in the
- [Dasein / wer -- (complete email)](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/dasein-wer-complete-email/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan Dear Laurence, [Sorry: the previous mail snuck out before I was finished.) Some thoughts re Dasein / wer: Heidegger frequently distinguishes between the Wasfrage and the Werfrage, the latter pertaining only to existentiel Dasein (GA 24: 170.5-8; cf. GA 66: 148.5). The "wer" is, of course, a formal indication (GA
- [Dasein and Entity](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/dasein-and-entity/) - Dear Nate and Tom and interested others, I have been following this discussion with some interest, as it intersects with some work I've been doing myself in the last days. Tom quite rightly directed you to Sein und Zeit 9. The problem is that while the English (of the Macquarrie-Robinson translation = MQR below) does
- [Das Seiende – again](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/das-seiende-again/) - Dear Tom and those interested in this thread, The declension of adjectival nouns continues to be confusing -- working through a number of Heidegger texts it appears that Seiendes can be nominative as well as genitive, and the same with ein Seiendes and eines Seiendes. This does not alter the issue from 9 of Sein und
- [Dasein and Evolution](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/dasein-and-evolution/) - Dear Tom, Thanks to you (and many others) for some stimulating exchanges: my response to your question Tom, follows. I am reluctant to venture an 'opinion', precisely because too much here seems to me to be in the order of conjecture. We still seem to be off in pursuit of the 'what-is-it' of Dasein. I
- [Damn, I sent two copies of the same file. The *real* second one is attached now.](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/damn-i-sent-two-copies-of-the-same-file-the-real-second-one-is-attached-now/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan Attachments-366/Dasein as die Lichtung.docx
- [Das Da des Daseins / die Lichtung des Seins](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/das-da-des-daseins-die-lichtung-des-seins/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan Dear friends, Over the past years, basing himself largely on GA 9: 373.32---374.1, Richard Capobianco raised a sustained challenge to reading the Da of Da-sein as die Lichtung des Seins. F.-W. von Herrmann addressed this topic years ago in the attached text. With the requisite nuances and even as he
- [das Ereignis and ancient Greek](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/das-ereignis-and-ancient-greek/) - Dear all, 'It's all Greek to me', that is, it is not clear, or, it is not happily stated. Perhaps the statement in question uses technical vocabulary or foreign words I do not understand. In any case, when I say 'it's all Greek to me' I mean I don't understand. However, one of Heidegger's lessons is that some things
- [das Unseiende and the standard of actuality](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/das-unseiende-and-the-standard-of-actuality/) - Dear Forum, I hope by posting I'm not offending. In my last post I raised a question about das Unseiende that I am now in a position to answer having consulted "The Origin of the Work of Art". Das Unseiende 'is' a matter of success and succession. One actuality (Wirklichkeit) cedes to another. An actuality
- [das Ereignis in GA7](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/das-ereignis-in-ga7/) - Discovering the present the human corresponds to the address of unhiddenness. However, unhiddenness has always already laid claim to the human and thus the human finds itself brought amid the present in the first place, thus unhiddenness, presence, or, I dare say, world has always already appropriated. And this appropriation reaches beyond the human as
- [Digitizing old HC Proceedings](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/digitizing-old-hc-proceedings/) - Charles Seibert's message has gotten me thinking about whether we should try to digitize as many old Heidegger Circle Proceedings as possible. As most of us know, the Proceedings from 2005 onwards are available as PDFs here: https://sites.google.com/site/heideggercircledocuments/proceedings Old Proceedings on paper could be scanned without much trouble -- my photocopier at work doubles as
- [Dichtung](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/dichtung/) - Written By: Dear Colleagues, As a student of Goethe and an amateur reader of Heidegger, I am interested (a) in the linguistic continuity from the former to the latter, (b) in the fondness of both writers for paradox (not to mention Hegel's), (c) and in the laudable
- [Digitizing past Proceedings](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/digitizing-past-proceedings/) - Dear HC members, You may recall this item from our most recent business meeting: 8. Digitizing past Proceedings: members unanimously agreed that this was a good idea. It willtake some work to collect printed copies, scan them and convert them to PDF format, askpermission from authors (if they can be reached), and (if possible) make
- [Derrida clarifys Heidegger! (just kidding)](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/derrida-clarifys-heidegger-just-kidding/) - Written By: Bricker, Jeffrey Dear Forum Members and Eric Meyer, Thanks Eric for your comments on “Ousia et Gramme”—you may be the only person in the continental United States who understands what Derrida is up to in this insanely difficult essay. My first post on the topic of Heidegger and presence quoted a couple
- [Dinosaurs?](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/dinosaurs/) - Written By: From the NY Times "The Stone" yesterday, this quote: "I met Mormon philosophers --- Heideggerians actually, but this was the 1980s when many such dinosaurs roamed the earth" Is Heidegger extinct? Has the question of being been covered up and fossilized yet again? Is this how Heideggerians are perceived by the rest of the
- [Describing the non-meaningful](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/describing-the-non-meaningful/) - Tom Sheehan wrote: I am open to accepting that there is a difference between Sein as non-meaningful presence (as vs. Sein as meaningful presence) if only Richard [C] or someone else will define or describe what that first option is. Is this not an impossible request? When we define or describe something, we are putting
- [Dasein](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/dasein/) - Written By: Shane Ewegen All: Does anybody have any thoughts about when, precisely, Heidegger begins to reserve the term Dasein for the human being (if he does at all)? There is clear evidence in the Basic Concepts of Aristotle (1924) that Heidegger used 'Dasein' to refer both to human and non-human modes of life. There,
- [David Kleinberg-Levin: WHAT IS EREIGNIS?](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/david-kleinberg-levin-what-is-ereignis/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan Wouldn't it be best for everyone to weigh in on David's excellent question? What is "Ereignis"? Or, what does "Ereignis" mean/refer to? --Tom ____So, now, Tom, what is "Ereignis"? Or, what does "Ereignis" mean/refer to? I might suggest, as one tempting answer, that its sense is to cut off all
- [directness of conversation](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/directness-of-conversation/) - Written By: Rudy Bauer I am recent to the circle and have so enjoyed the directness and challenge of the recent conversations. There is this direct statement of Heidegger that I have always found as a reopening for me to the openness of his thought and words. This statement is from Mindfullness, the chapter
- [David K-L is right: Dasein is not the whole of the Clearing](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/david-k-l-is-right-dasein-is-not-the-whole-of-the-clearing/) - Hello, all, I was dismayed to read Tom's response to David's very careful and thoughtful formulation of the matter of the relation of the human being to die Lichtung. As I have posted several times before, Heidegger did indeed maintain that the human being is not the whole of the clearing. I highlight some of
- [Die Technik: die Zukunft?](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/die-technik-die-zukunft/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan https://www.youtube.com/embed/6Cf7IL_eZ38 https://www.youtube.com/watch?annotation_id=annotation_424843&feature=iv&src_vid=6Cf7IL_eZ38&v=jZkHpNnXLB0 -- Thomas Sheehan Stanford University Stanford, CA 94305-2165 650 723-3322http://religiousstudies.stanford.edu/people/tom-sheehan/
- [David Kleinberg-Levin's recent post](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/david-kleinberg-levins-recent-post/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan Dear David, You wrote: Tom Sheehan's florilegium of quotes raises countless difficult questions---but perhaps some interpretive difficulties for his own position as well as for the positions he wants the quotes to challenge and defeat. The key to unlocking and recionciling the opposing positions (e.g., between Sheehan and Capobianco) might
- [Die Technik](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/die-technik/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan Dear friends, Some recent stuff on die Technik: http://www.iflscience.com/technology/worms-mind-robot-body http://news.stanford.edu/news/2014/december/high-rise-chip-121514.html http://news.stanford.edu/news/2014/december/ai-century-study-121614.html Tom
- [Descartes](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/descartes/) - Is consciousness a reification evoking the res cogitans by its linguistic configuration? What is the use of writing about it here when Heidegger's work so lovingly analyses existence in some of its great richness and variety without getting stuck on one aspect? Perhaps this is a question of being and nature. According to Heidegger being
- [Derrida at rest at last in New Jersey](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/derrida-at-rest-at-last-in-new-jersey/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan http://library.princeton.edu/news/2015-03-31/princeton-university-library-acquires-jacques-derridas-personal-library
- [desperate for ground](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/desperate-for-ground/) - Dear Forum, I'm not sure of the subtleties of the difference between Dasein, Da, Da-sein, Da-sein and Da-sein, not to mention the question of the relations between the human and being, being and Da-sein... But Heidegger says (Contributions to Philosophy section 242) the essential occurrence of the abyssal ground "becomes historical in the grounding of the "there" by Da-sein (by
- [did Heidegger overcome Kant?](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/did-heidegger-overcome-kant/) - Written By: Arkadi Choufrine Kant, as is well known, had built a powerful argument to the effect that any talk of anything "an sich" is na ve and thus, philosophically, bs.Fichte, Schelling, and Hegel have made, each, an impressive attempt to break through this limitation imposed by Kant's argument.I do not see any such
- [Defensum](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/defensum/) - Dear Members: I am not sure this works, I am sure it is risky, but then I suppose this is the place to try out new ideas. I am thinking of the recent conversation between Tom Sheehan and Arkadi on authenticity, and I also discussed some of this with Larry Berger, who in fact brought
- [Deadline: next Tuesday, the 18th.](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/deadline-next-tuesday-the-18th/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan . Dear friends, I'm in an informal seminar now at Stanford, reading Heidegger with a professor and some grad students---all of them analytic philosophers and quite bright. Yesterday they asked me to pin down and summarize in our next meeting what Heidegger's "thing itself" actually was. I just read a
- [Digital GA](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/digital-ga/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan Dear friends, Before leaving here for lectures in Belgium, my colleague Prof. Xi Lixuan said she had mailed back all the flash drives she received, and if you don't receive your flash drive by the end of next week, please respond. (She'll be back at Stanford in June for a
- [David Klein Levin asked for a link. Here it is...](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/david-klein-levin-asked-for-a-link-here-it-is/) - http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/17/books/review/at-the-existentialist-cafe-by-sarah-bakewell.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fbook-review&action=click&contentCollection=review&region=stream&module=stream_unit&version=latest&contentPlacement=4&pgtype=sectionfront&_r=0
- [Deleuze on la betise (sorry for the lack of accents)](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/deleuze-on-la-betise-sorry-for-the-lack-of-accents/) - Dear Forum, In a text, in which he references Heidegger, from Difference et Repetition Deleuze suggests that it is down to philosophy to make la betise the object of a "properly transcendental question". He wants to distinguish it from error. I've wanted to bring up this text for a while (Difference et Repetition 8th edition p192-198) but
- [Dialoging with Reg](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/dialoging-with-reg/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan Thanks yet again, Reg. Below, just continuing the dialogue.--Tom Here I think more attention to the nature of
- [discord](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/discord/) - Dear Forum, In the UK misappropriation and plunder is the norm. And it is mainly from the US! Not that you really seem to care, in fact at times it can seem that you have a monopoly. I am thinking of song and film. But all the American accents and Hollywood movies bespeak another world.
- [Die Kehre und Die Differenz](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/die-kehre-und-die-differenz/) - Dear Tom, I believe I have a hunch about the location of the potential disagreement here. Although I am responding to your comments to Richard C., I am only speaking for myself, obviously, though Richard is the other critical part of the conversation. Consider this an addendum to my last message in which I suggest
- [decision](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/decision/) - Dear Forum, To ground Da-sein is to properly ask the question of the truth of beyng, that is, to place it up for decision and, as the question is beyond human choice, to prepare the site for the moment (of decision) so that decision properly take place and the question receive or find a response...
- [der Augenblick](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/der-augenblick/) - Dear Forum, I reckon that, ultimately, the creation of the artist sets the circumstances and possibilities encountered in der Augenblick into the work as essential traits of the strife of clearing and concealing. The creation bearing these traits may take possession of the open region and instigate a strife of world and earth depending on
- [Dialoguing with James](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/dialoguing-with-james/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan Dear James, There's a lot in what you just wrote. I hope you will allow me to respond interstitially (and in a different color). Best regards, Tom ____________ 1. I agree with your clarification with regard to the need to distinguish existentiel-existential, in points 1-3. But let me ask you,
- [David Kleinberg-Levin on "Ereignis"](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/david-kleinberg-levin-on-ereignis/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan Dear David, Thanks for this reflection. I quite agree with what you write here: "[1] Da-sein is an essence vorausgeschickt, hence a priori; [2] but it is also unrecognized, unfamiliar, a potential grounding that is not only undeveloped, but also not acknowledged by the times, hence an Un-gewohntes. [3] Its
- [Dear James, So what *is* this "Ereignis"? --Tom](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/dear-james-so-what-is-this-ereignis-tom/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan On Mon, Oct 23, 2017 at 5:15 PM, James Osborn wrote: David, The point isn't to give me or anyone else credit--you can divvy up credit however you'd like. The point is the nature of Ereignis, and your treatment of the issue has been inconsistent, particularly depending on the
- [distemper](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/distemper/) - Dear Forum, I hope you will forgive me speaking up for a second time today without solicitation. According to the post-heideggerian Deleuze, the event escapes in both directions at once: not only in the always already but also in the always to come and one knows that the primal phenomenon for Heidegger is the future... escaping in both
- [die Gegnet (and universal suffering)](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/die-gegnet-and-universal-suffering/) - Dear Forum, Say the event at once escapes to the future and to the past leaving one calm (Gelassenheit), isn't it essential to mention die Gegnet as Gelassenheit is Gelassenheit zur Gegnet or is not. I failed to mention die Gegnet in my last email... Nevermind. I've mentioned it now. In Gelassenheit Heidegger also contends
- [Der Arbeiter](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/der-arbeiter/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan Dear friends, Congratulations to Laurence Hemming on the publication of his translation of Ernst J nger's Der Arbeiter. J nger was a tidy writer. At the end of this book he added a two-page summary of the 78 sections of the book. For any who may be interested, the summary
- [decision and bestowal](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/decision-and-bestowal/) - Dear Forum, Insofar as an event is undecided it is not yet given. There has not yet been an outcome. In this way the event is strangely indeterminate while underway, although of course an event can also be underway as already decided... Now, the Ereignis of Beitr ge zur Philosophie comes about, (appropriates or eventuates)
- [David Stone's post on "ways, modes, kinds," and a final question](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/david-stones-post-on-ways-modes-kinds-and-a-final-question/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan Dear David, Thanks for your patience. Below is an attempt to think through your message. (As regards 4.2, I defer to Dan Dahlstrom.) Tom You wrote [I add the italicized words]: I find in these plural nouns two referents, in 1 and 3 they seem to refer to the different
- [David and Richard on "die Gründung des Daseins"](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/david-and-richard-on-die-grundung-des-daseins/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan Thomas Sheehan has shared a OneDrive for Business file with you. To view it, click the link below. _ER-EIGNIS_ comes from _EIGNIS_DYNAMIS.pdf Dear David and Richard, I'm with David on
- [David Kleinberg-Levin's post](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/david-kleinberg-levins-post/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan Dear David, Thoughts on your two points: 1 I think that Heidegger also very much wanted to get us thinking about the history of this recognition and understanding of the clearing. 1 I agree. The "tertiary" sense that I mentioned to Richard deals with this. (Whether it is plausible to
- [die Verweigerung not for the masses](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/die-verweigerung-not-for-the-masses/) - Dear Forum, Unless I'm mistaken the source of creativity in Beitraege zur Philosophie is not for the masses. It is no doubt for those with a formation in ancient Geek... The thing is die Verweigerung, the refusal that is only an Ereignung for some, those with a formation in ancient Greek, who would suffer the plight
- [Dear Richard and Richard](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/dear-richard-and-richard/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan Dear Richard and Richard, Can either of your help with what seem to be problems in the following positions? 1. Being/Clearing ("X," Seinsgeschehnis, Ereignis, Seyn, or whatever we may call it) determines, grants, gives, enables, throws, appropriates, brings-into-its-own Da-sein. 2. Ereignis is just another name for Being/Clearing. Yet Ereignis grants/gives/etc.
- [Der Herkunft der Gottheit attached](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/der-herkunft-der-gottheit-attached/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan Dear friends, Does anyone have a read of this difficult text? Tom Attachments-361/HERKUNFT DER GOTTHEIT.pdf
- [Diversity druthers...](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/diversity-druthers/) - I wish there were a way to encourage the participants in these exchanges to, as it were, 'get a room' so that they and those who do care about it can have at it. As it stands one can get the impression that the only way to talk about Heidegger is either on the terms
- [destiny proceeds from the work](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/destiny-proceeds-from-the-work/) - The work grew tiresome with time,Still, it provides the precedent,Though its form, now poorly defined,Has long since begun to fragment.Another shape asks to be drawn.The demand is a gift to take.Such is the way a world is born,Delivered for destiny's sake.As twilight is still not yet dawnAs the earth turns towards the sunSo the lines
- [destiny](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/destiny/) - Dear Forum, Destiny is an orientation, although if a group of people is to own its destiny must it not fix or ascertain a future (and thus flexible) destination too? Destiny is as much a matter of a world as it is a group of people. World can be the way that the people must follow in
- [Die Ereignung des Da](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/die-ereignung-des-da/) - Dear Forum, The simple being of the work of art, that it is (rather than not), heralds change ushered in by die Bewahrenden: "The establishing of truth in the work is the bringing forth of a being such as never was before and will never come to be again. The bringing forth [the erection?] places
- [Discount on Time & Trauma](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/discount-on-time-trauma/) - I am rather embarrassed to be doing this, but it is one of an author's duties to help his publisher sell books. So here is a flyer for my new book, including a code for a 30% discount. Richard Attachments-359/Time and Trauma.pdf
- [difference](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/difference/) - Dear Forum, Has anyone read one Douglas L. Donkel's book on difference in Heidegger and Derrida? Is it worth the price ( 40)? Furthermore, I am interested in understanding the obscurities of the section "L' tre crit" from De la grammatologie. Has anyone mastered this section of Derrida's 'labourious' work? Best wishes Andrew Price
- [Don't Have A Cow](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/dont-have-a-cow/) - Written By: Kim Doyle Don't Have a Cow (81) Come on, say now. Vocalize it, and then, analyze it. Do you mean now-no-longer, opening the horizon of time to something earlier. Do you mean now-not-yet opening the horizon of time to something later. Now, now is shifting, like the whole is greater than the
- [Does Martin Heidegger Discuss "The Eucharist"? And Does He Transubstantiate?](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/does-martin-heidegger-discuss-the-eucharist-and-does-he-transubstantiate/) - Written By: eric d. meyer Dear Heideggerians: As a "post-Kehre" Heideggerian, I'm un-familiar with Martin Heidegger's early theological works. (...Except maybe "Phenomenology & Theology," which is already "post-theological"!...) So I confess: I really don't know what the early (Catholic? & then Protestant?) MH's stance toward the sacraments of the Church was. (...Or even: Which
- [EREIGNIS (TWO "MOMENTS") AND MEANINGFULNESS](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/ereignis-two-moments-and-meaningfulness/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan Dear friends,Richard Polt: “I think that both Richard C and Tom Sheehan are somewhat allergic to historicity.” I think that Ereignis is both (1) an a priori structure and (2) something that we can personally discover and embrace historically – analogous to the way thrownness is both an existential of
- [EREIGNIS AGAIN](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/ereignis-again/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan Dear friends,Richard Capobianco has properly noted the crucial importance of “lassen” (here: to let-be).1. I argue that Ereignis lets-be Being (Es gibt Sein), and Being lets-be beings. The question then becomes: What is Ereignis?2. Given Heidegger’s virtual equating of Ereignis and Geworfenheit throughout Beitr ge, I argue that Ereignis/Er-eignung (bringing
- [ENTEIGNIS](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/enteignis/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan Dear Reg,Thanks very much for bringing up Enteignis. First off: I don't think I understand Enteignis at all. Can you (or anyone on the list)point me to some of the texts and say a few words about what it means?As regards Geworfenheit and Ereignis: It's Heidegger himself who makes the
- [Does Western Metaphysics Really Determine Being as Presence?](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/does-western-metaphysics-really-determine-being-as-presence/) - Written By: eric d. meyer Dear HC: Martin Heidegger frequently asserts that Western metaphysics (...whatever that is!...) determines being as presence (as "the presencing of the present/presence" etc.). And a whole school of French Heideggerians the claims to deconstruct Western metaphysics for its "metaphysics of presence." But the Greek and Latin words for "presence"
- [EINAI AND OUSIA IN PLOTINUS](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/einai-and-ousia-in-plotinus/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan Dear friends,This article on the emergence of a distinct meaning of einai (vs. traditional ousia) may be of interest to some.Best regards, --TomThomas SheehanStanford UniversityBuilding 70, 72GStanford,California 94305-2165650 723-3322http://religiousstudies.stanford.edu/people/tom-sheehan/ Attachments-356/HADOT - EINAI AND OUSIA IN PLOTINUS.pdf
- [Dugin and Heidegger in Russia](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/dugin-and-heidegger-in-russia/) - Written By: Gregory Fried Heidegger Circle, To follow up on Tom Sheehan s post about Alexander Dugin and the appropriation of Heidegger for National Bolshevism in Putin s Russia, there is the following interview with Dugin, which lays much of his position out succinctly. In short, Dugin seeks a new politics (he calls it
- [Does Heidegger purpose to us to climb over or to leave behind the categories of Aristotle and the Categories of Kant?](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/does-heidegger-purpose-to-us-to-climb-over-or-to-leave-behind-the-categories-of-aristotle-and-the-categories-of-kant/) - Written By: gordonhasmail Does Heidegger purpose to us to climb over or to leave behind the categories of Aristotle and the Categories of Kant? How many of you have an idea of what I am talking about? The categories, that that is there before me (the situations or predicaments of the world put to
- [Donatella di Cesare on why she has left the Heidegger Gesellschaft](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/donatella-di-cesare-on-why-she-has-left-the-heidegger-gesellschaft/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan http://www.illibraio.it/donatella-di-cesare-lascio-heidegger-gesellschaft-203661/ [A very rough translation:] I have decided to step away from the Heidegger Gesellschaft, but not for the same reasons as [G nter] Figal [who resigned as president in January]. I've disagreed publically with his reasons for resigning, and that is why I have remained in my position as
- [EMMANUEL FAYE: The Introduction of Fraud into Philosophy?](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/emmanuel-faye-the-introduction-of-fraud-into-philosophy/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan Dear friends, May I ask your help in correcting anything in the attached text before it is published? anything from typos, incorrect French or German spellings or grammar, or any substantive issues? Also, in footnote 14 I need a page-and-line reference for the English translation of Heidegger-Jaspers, Briefwechsel 41.12. The English phrase
- [Does Heidegger ever mention Virgil or The Aeneid?](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/does-heidegger-ever-mention-virgil-or-the-aeneid/)
- [E. Faye & The Future of Heidegger Studies?](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/e-faye-the-future-of-heidegger-studies/) - Written By: eric d. meyer Dear Heideggerians, Since I am no longer a card-carrying, dues-paying member of Heidegger Circle (but continue to get the e-mail. anyway), I refrained from responding to Prof. Fried's announcement of the huge amounts awarded by Volkswagen Stiftung to Sidonie Kellerer & Co. to research Heidegger's Nazi-era & post-Nazi writings.
- [Documentary of "Irrational Man"](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/documentary-of-irrational-man/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan Dear friends, I highly recommend the new documentary (just release d in theaters ) of William Barrett's Irrational Man. Tom P.S. A PDF of the 1958 book is availble at:http://www.philosophymagazine.com/others/MO_Barrett_Irrational.html
- [E&E](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/ee/) - Written By: ERIC J SANDBERG . . . just wont let me be . . . Another way to think of the relation cum difference of existential and existentiell is in terms of essence and possession, any I of 'existential' as essentially effaced (at best formally indicative) while a certain 'essentiality' continues to adhere
- [don't laugh](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/dont-laugh/) - Dear Forum, If the hermeneutic circle is a to and fro between part and whole how do we find it in Heidegger's work between thing and world e.g. between (the mysterious) Bewandtnis and world in Being and Time and thing and world in the later essays? Is this a significant theme? best wishes Andrew Price Sent from
- [Does anyone have David Krell's email address?](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/does-anyone-have-david-krells-email-address/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan Thanks. Tom -- Thomas SheehanStanford Universityhttp://religiousstudies.stanford.edu/people/tom-sheehan/
- [Dreyfus school on the "for-the-sake-which" in SZ](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/dreyfus-school-on-the-for-the-sake-which-in-sz/) - Written By: Arkadi Choufrine Dear all-- In Hubert Dreyfus and his students, I find recurring the interpretation of the "for-the-sake-which" along the lines of the following: "I am [a teacher, ] a father, a son, a neighbor, a youth baseball coach, and so on. Are all of these for-the-sake-of-which" projects that themselves refer back
- [Dreyfus, "for-the-sake-which" and Aristotle](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/dreyfus-for-the-sake-which-and-aristotle/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan Dear friends, Does the Worumwillen of SZ derive from the that Heidegger got from Aristotle through his reading of Braig? (GA 9: 251-2 = 192-3) Are the Dreyfusards sufficiently tuned into the Aristotelian background of SZ? Tom On Thu, Nov 19, 2015 at 5:30 AM, ERIC J SANDBERG wrote:
- [Dreyfus on EST](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/dreyfus-on-est/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan His essay on EST is at: http://www.scribd.com/doc/72095343/Assessment-of-the-Philosophical-Significance-of-The-est-Training Tom On Sat, Nov 21, 2015 at 4:43 PM, Arkadi Choufrine wrote: "Burt's involvement with EST assertiveness training back in the 1980's and his use of the "for-the-sake-of-which" in that training"-- Wow... Was he involved as a trainer or a trainee? And
- [do animals have "Rede" ?](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/do-animals-have-rede/) - Written By: Arkadi Choufrine Dear all--I am trying to figure out which of the following three statements would be, from Hd's perspective, false (as they cannot, logically, be all true):(1) Rede in SZ is a (tentative) rendering of (cf. Th. Sheehan, Making sense... 297);(2) "having" is what distinguishes humans from non-human animals (cf. SZ
- [Dr. Cullen-Wynn *did* correctly report Richard C's thesis of "two clearings."](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/dr-cullen-wynn-did-correctly-report-richard-cs-thesis-of-two-clearings/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan . Dear Richard, [Let's ignore your remarks (yet again) about "trolling" the Forum and "provoking" you. For that, see the attached: correspondence of 16 January 2016.] I'm afraid Dr. Cullen-Wynn did represent your position quite accurately when she said you hold to two clearings. When I queried her recently about
- [EDW. MENDELSON'S REV. OF SARAH BAKEWELL: "AT THE EXIST. CAFE" (NYT BK REV, 17 APR 16)](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/edw-mendelsons-rev-of-sarah-bakewell-at-the-exist-cafe-nyt-bk-rev-17-apr-16/) - READ THIS SUNDAY & STILL PROCESSING IT. ANYONE ALREADY REPLIED? PLANNING TO DO SO? I'D LIKE TO READ YOUR RESPONSES. CHEERS....
- [does this falsify Tom Sheehan's thesis?](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/does-this-falsify-tom-sheehans-thesis/) - Written By: Arkadi Choufrine "The same care about certainty leads, then, to mangling in a peculiar way what-in spite of all this bracketing in a traditional respect-was positively accomplished in phenomenology. It leads to this: 1. with respect to intentionality insofar as this is always construed (less explicitly than implicitly) as specific theoretical behavior.
- [Dreyfus on Heidegger and artificial intelligence](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/dreyfus-on-heidegger-and-artificial-intelligence/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan Dear friends, I just ran across this article, which may be of interest to others as well. http://cid.nada.kth.se/en/HeideggerianAI.pdf Best regards, Tom
- [Donatella Di Cesare Targeted](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/donatella-di-cesare-targeted/) - Written By: Gregory Fried Dear Heidegger Circle Colleagues, Earlier this month, I took part in a conference in Berlin on "Das andere Denken. Heideggerian and Jewish Thought, inter alia," organized by Elad Lapidot, Micha Brumlik, and Christoph Schmidt. It was an excellent conference, and I wanted to write more about it at the time, but other obligations
- [Draft Statement of Support for Donatella Di Cesare](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/draft-statement-of-support-for-donatella-di-cesare/) - Written By: Gregory Fried Dear Heidegger Circle Members, As suggested in a previous posting, I would like to propose that the HC consider approving a statement of support for Donatella Di Cesare, who has been subjected to serious threats because of her work and who is now under police protection in Italy. Richard Polt
- [Does anyone have a searchable pdf of Holderlin�s Hymn �The Ister� they can share?](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/does-anyone-have-a-searchable-pdf-of-holderlin�s-hymn-�the-ister�-they-can-share/) - McNeill and David translation, Indiana University Press, 1996. Thanks David Leech
- [Dr. Kevin Aho on Heidegger's Concept of Profound Boredom in Relation to Modern Psychology](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/dr-kevin-aho-on-heideggers-concept-of-profound-boredom-in-relation-to-modern-psychology/) - Dr. Kevin Aho was recently kind enough to share with me this article on Heidegger's concept of Profound Boredom and Contemporary Psychology: Acceleration and Time: The Critique of Psychology in Heidegger's Beitrage (2007). It's published online here: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0961463x07074100 His article is quite clearly on point. I especially like it when he wrote: "Acceleration captures the
- [Does anyone have a good sense of what Heidegger found so admirable in Jacob Burckhardt’s approach to history?](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/does-anyone-have-a-good-sense-of-what-heidegger-found-so-admirable-in-jacob-burckhardts-approach-to-history/) - All, Heidegger says what he finds admirable. I just don't understand what he is getting at. In The Essences of Truth: On Plato's Cave Allegory and Theaetetus (Revelations) (translated by Ted Sadler), Continuum, 2002, Heidegger writes: "A man of the stature of Jacob Burckhardt was not a great and genuine historian, instead of merely a scholar, on account
- [Dr. Simon Critchley blogging about Being and Time](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/dr-simon-critchley-blogging-about-being-and-time/) - Hi Group, As many of you know, I have an interest in presenting aspects of Heidegger to a general, non-specialist audience on the web = Heidegger for Everyone! Along these lines, I am preparing to make another attempt at Being and Time, a text I was not up to the task for some 20 years
- [Does anyone have a pdf of History of Beyng they can send? Or, any mention of Burckhardt in History of Beyng?](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/does-anyone-have-a-pdf-of-history-of-beyng-they-can-send-or-any-mention-of-burckhardt-in-history-of-beyng/) - David Leech
- [ESSAY LOOKING FOR AN ANTHOLOGY](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/essay-looking-for-an-anthology/) - Written By: David Kleinberg-Levin Good day, Friends, Colleagues! I have written an essay on the matter of voice and univocity in Heidegger, with special attention to the Heraklit seminar material, originally intending it for the book I have just completed. But the book has turned out to be extremely long, & I think I
- [Emad, "Translation and Interpretation: Learning from Beiträge"](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/emad-translation-and-interpretation-learning-from-beitrage/) - I am forwarding the attached book announcement at the request of the publisher, Zeta Books. --Richard Attachments-354/Parvis Emad.pdf
- [Emmanuel Levinas on "The Hermeneutic Circle" & The Polemos of Being and being(s)...](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/emmanuel-levinas-on-the-hermeneutic-circle-the-polemos-of-being-and-beings/) - Written By: eric d. meyer Dear Nate et al: I found this passage in Emmanuel Levinas' Totality & Infinity, which is a polemical critique of MH's "thinking of being." I don't always agree with Levinas, of course. But EL was a student of MH & spent his whole life criticizing MH. And I think
- [Emmanuel Levinas on Martin Heidegger's Nazism: Critique or Defense? (RESEND w. Subject!)](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/emmanuel-levinas-on-martin-heideggers-nazism-critique-or-defense-resend-w-subject/) - Written By: eric d. meyer eric d. meyer ericdavismeyer@gmail.com 3:54 PM (1 minute ago) to gfried, heideggercircle Pr. Fried et al: In re-reading Emmanuel Levinas' Totality & Infinity, which is called by John Wild "one of the most basic attacks on the thought of Heidegger that has yet been formulated" (p. 20), it struck
- [Eric & Carnap & Heidegger](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/eric-carnap-heidegger/) - Written By: Bricker, Jeffrey Eric Myer seems to see Heidegger’s path of thinking as an attempt to escape the forest of metaphysics (roughly the Western philosophical tradition from Plato to Nietzsche). This is correct, but not terribly informative. After all, the variety of thinkers we clump together under the label “logical positivists” also shared
- [EREIGNIS AND OVERCOMING THE ONTOLOGICAL DIFFERENCE](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/ereignis-and-overcoming-the-ontological-difference/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan Dear friends,On the contrary, Heidegger's focal topic was not Being as the letting-be of beings in their beingness. Rather it was the Herkunft des Anwesens, the source of Being at all (i.e., of Being which lets-be beings in their beingness). But that Herkunft/source is Ereignis as the opening of the
- [EREIGNIS DIRECTLY GRANTS SEIN, NOT SEIENDEN](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/ereignis-directly-grants-sein-not-seienden/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan Dear friends,On the contraryI do not think my position is novel at all but rather in conformity with Heidegger's own texts. Just to take the main point for now:Richard holds that Ereignis is the granting of beings, whereas with Heidegger (GA 14: 45.29-30: Ereignis grants Anwesen) I hold that:Ereignis is
- [EREIGNIS/THROWNNESS](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/ereignis-thrownness/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan Dear Richard,You write:By the way, as Tom Sheehan mentioned recently, he equates Ereignis with thrownness. We differ on this, as past discussions on this list have made clear, since I take Ereignis as the event in which we get thrown. Could you say more on the distinction between the event of getting thrown
- [EREIGNIS/THE FACT](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/ereignis-the-fact/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan Dear Richard (Polt),Thanks for reiterating your Sept. 28 posting, which I must have missed, and for clarifying your take on Ereignung/Ereignis. I will review Emergency and your Gatherings essay again.I must say I was dismayed by the choice of "event" for Ereignis both in the two new translations and in
- [EREIGNIS/SEYN](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/ereignis-seyn/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan Richard writes:I know that you want to keep the term Sein (and variants) separate from Ereignis. That would keep things clearer and more consistent, but in fact Heidegger does often bring the terms together, particularly when he uses the spelling Seyn. The happening of Seyn is the same thing as the happening
- [ERROR ON WAHRHEIT MAILING](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/error-on-wahrheit-mailing/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan Dear friends,I’ve hit a glitch on sending the second text, the comparison on the 1930 and the 1943 versions of “Vom Wesen der Wahrheit,” You may have received Part Two, but I can’t seem to mail Parts One and Three from my home computer. I’ll try again tomorrow from the
- [Earth](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/earth/) - Written By: Shane Ewegen David:Thanks for the comment. I agree completely with your characterization of Earth—it seems to me that Heidegger is at pains to (only) intimate what he sees as withdrawal and refusal, and am intrigued by your comment regarding Being and Time and vorhandenheit. I would like to hear more about Earth
- [Emil Fackenheim on Heidegger's "Overcoming Metaphysics"](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/emil-fackenheim-on-heideggers-overcoming-metaphysics/) - Written By: eric d. meyer Dear Heideggerians: While researching GWF Hegel's Phenomenology, I came across a 20th Century philosopher whose reading of Martin Heidegger's "Overcoming Metaphysics" partly agrees (?) with mine. Emil Fackenheim's To Mend the World argues that MH"s "Uberwindung der Metaphysik," and all MH's "post-Kehre" thought (after 1933-1934) is attempt to "overcome"
- [Eric Meyer: A fools' errand?](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/eric-meyer-a-fools-errand/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan Dear Eric, You write: It's then a moot point to decide What comes before... what?" or "What gives... what?" [W]e can never pin down exactly "What gives... what?" or "Which came first? (I think we would agree: the before is not temporal but in the order of what Heidegger calls
- [Ellis's point](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/elliss-point/) - Written By: Shane Ewegen Ellis: Thank you for your interesting comments, and your point is well-taken. I certainly wish that my German were better! However, I wonder if your statements fail to square with Heidegger’s own thinking on the nature of translation. We all know the high value that he placed on the German
- [EREIGNIS](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/ereignis/) - Written By: David Kleinberg-Levin Good evening! I intended to send this on to the entire membership. I am not sure, but I believe the message went only to Tom Sheehan. Forgive me if you already received my suggestion in response to Tom, which, in a reply to me, he happily agreed with. Perhaps the
- [EREIGNIS: FACTUM OR "EVENT"?](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/ereignis-factum-or-event/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan Dear Richard, Thanks for your responses. I'll take them up one issue at a time -- in this email: whether Ereignis is an "event" or an a priori factum. You write: "To me, the former alternative [i.e., that Ereignis is an a priori factum]does not make much sense,because if the
- [ERIC ON THE CLEARING](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/eric-on-the-clearing/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan Dear Eric, Yes, you are right. 1.And all those terms, viz., the Sinn, Wahrheit, Offenheit, Ort, Ortschaft, , Da, Unverborgenheit, -prime [etc., etc.] des Seins are allformal indications of what he will finally discover to be: die ereignete Lichtung. That is the "material content" that was formally indicated by "das
- [Ereignis and Ereignung](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/ereignis-and-ereignung/) - Is Ereignung a mini Ereignis? An opening (to gods) in parting (not the truth of being). As I have repeatedly stated such an opening or clearing combines three elements (the remoteness of undecidability, the grounding of Dasein and the promise of a new dispensation of be-ing). At Contributions to Philosophy 267 Heidegger writes of the "enowning
- [Ein Geschichte-Lied](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/ein-geschichte-lied/) - By the way Kirsty Macoll was Euan Macoll's daughter. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Jm_tqlkf2s Andrew
- [Enough is Enough](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/enough-is-enough/) - Hello, all, I am away this weekend, but I have just checked the Forum, and I see Tom's response to Greg that includes an unprovoked specific reference to me and my work. There's a lot to be said, but let me clarify one thing. I have always been most careful and restrained and collegial in
- [ein Zug zum Werk](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/ein-zug-zum-werk/) - Dear Forum, Is der Zug zum Werk ("The Origin of the Work of Art" "the impulse toward the work") an exit from the struggle or strife, the tunnel, of self-preservation into the preservation or sheltering of a comprehensive strife of "truth"? Is this a move from the vanity of Eigensinn into the open, from truth as the shadowy play
- [Entschlossenheit/Eigentlichkeit as Bereitschaft](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/entschlossenheit-eigentlichkeit-as-bereitschaft/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan Dear Arkadi, I think that is exactly right. The following passage is, I think, the climax of SZ's discussion of resolve and authenticity: Das verstehend Sichvorrufenlassen auf diese [eigensten eigentlichen] M glichkeit schlie t in sich das Freiwerden des Daseins f r den Ruf: die Bereitschaft f r das Angerufenwerdenk
- [egregious?!](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/egregious/) - Here's a question: "la grande politique nietzsch ene a-t-elle fait long feu ou bien est-elle encore venir par-del un s isme dont le nationalisme-socialisme ou le fascisme n'auraient t que des pisodes?""Nietzsche's grand politics, has it misfired or is it still to come beyond an earthquake of which national-socialism or fascism would have only been
- [Ereignis, from Eignung/δύναμις](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/ereignis-from-eignung-δύναμις/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan . Dear friends, Attached are two more texts that point to the origin of Heidegger's "Ereignis" in Eignung---the latter being his translation of ---plus a brief note on Eignung/Ereignung. Other texts that use Eignung include GA 9: 285.25; GA 19: 265.14, etc. I welcome any comments or criticisms. Tom Attachments-353/GA
- [EREIGNIS: MUST WE CHOOSE?](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/ereignis-must-we-choose/)
- [Ereignis, Transformation, Ontological Difference](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/ereignis-transformation-ontological-difference/) - Dear Tom and anyone else that wants to jump in, If you have a moment and could clarify this issue, I might get a better grasp of your view and what our difference might or might not be. You have said that Ereignis is our/one's/a person's/a human being's/a being's existential structure, and that the "transformation"
- [Ereignis and Geworfenheit](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/ereignis-and-geworfenheit/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan Dear James, You wrote: In GA 65: 34, 13, he resists conflating die Grundstimmung des Daseins als Verhaltenheit (the basic disposition of Dasein as restraint) with Ereignis. He says that the basic disposition is "not merely the fixed form" of the human being. The disposition is understood as a readiness/preparedness
- [Elizabeth Taylor](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/elizabeth-taylor/) - https://goo.gl/images/SAEV9b
- [English nonsense?](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/english-nonsense/) - Fire cleans. And if it can live,If it can rise over remainsOf a hot blooded errancyCalled guilt and worse, if it can liveOutshining revenge that remainsOf a hot blooded errancyThen q, thanks forever anon,Forever anon, gelernt, gone.
- [Early Heidegger's realism/idealism?](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/early-heideggers-realism-idealism/) - Hello, all, I am glad that Charlie followed-up because this is not a matter to be abruptly dismissed, as it was when I first posted several days ago. Heidegger's thinking, for all of its creativity, does not escape certain enduring philosophical discussions and conundrums. That's why I am wary of the statement that Heidegger "overcame"
- [Eastern History of Being?](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/eastern-history-of-being/) - Dear forum members, Forgive my oversight if this has previously been discussed or brought to the forum, but is, or has there been, any attempt to provide a Heideggerian account of the Eastern/ Oriental History of Being, whether originating from the Kyoto school philosophers, or elsewhere? I suspect that this would generate another level of
- [Ereignis: work and gift](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/ereignis-work-and-gift/) - Dear Forum, I have recently read W. Julian Korab-Karpowicz's The Presocratics in the Thought of Martin Heidegger. He doesn't mention das Ereignis. But he writes towards the end (p235) "the unconcealment is not simply given. It is achieved by work. It is wrested from concealment (distortion, semblance) in a struggle with it." More recently, I have
- [energy and the work of art](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/energy-and-the-work-of-art/) - Dear Forum, One might argue that in a sense, the sense in which it gathered movement to itself, the ergon at the centre of the polis was a kind of power station. At Einf hrung in die Metaphysik p46 Heidegger writes of the being of the being. At GA5, 34-35 he writes of a repose
- [facebook](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/facebook/) - I agree with Richard. Put up a "Heidegger" facebook page. (I'm on facebook & all the rest; I couldn't communicate with my grandchildren otherwise!)...jb -- Dr John Bailiff 1020 1st St Apt 212 Stevens Point WI 54481-2654 715.252.4072 john.bailiff@gmail.com fitphilosophy.blogspot.com lovingwell.com >>Remember, kids: in order to maintain an untenable position, you have to be actively
- [Faye Review](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/faye-review/) - Written By: The most recent TLS (Sept. 10) has a very thoughtful, and damning, two-page review of Faye's book by Taylor Carman.
- [FYI: some applied philosophy and psychoanalysis for the general public](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/fyi-some-applied-philosophy-and-psychoanalysis-for-the-general-public/) - Link to my Psychology Today blog, "Feeling, Relating, Existing": http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/feeling-relating-existing
- [ICNAP V](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/icnap-v/) - Dear friends of ICNAP in other phenomenological organizations: Please distribute to the members of your organization of phenomenologists the attached call for papers and symposia for the Fifth Annual Conference of the International Coalition of North American Phenomenologists (ICNAP V), May 24-26, 2013, at Ramapo College in Mahwah, NJ. All papers focused on phenomenology in single
- [Eric's Recent Observations](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/erics-recent-observations/) - Written By: Bricker, Jeffrey Dear Forum Members, In a recent post Eric Myer makes a couple of observations that are worth thinking about. First, he is afraid that if we construe the meaning of Heidegger’s term “being” as “presence/the present/the presencing of presence” in interpreting the later writings we will be doing the philosopher
- [Eric's response to Richard's essay on Holderlin & Heidegger](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/erics-response-to-richards-essay-on-holderlin-heidegger/) - Written By: Bricker, Jeffrey Dear Forum Members, Well, I don’t know about the rest of you but I thought Eric’s off-the-cuff translation of a couple of Holderlin’s late poems were very fine. There’s certainly nothing wrong with exploring Holderlin’s poetry using the Nietzschean dualism of Apollonian form and Dionysian depth. But Heidegger didn’t want
- [Eric's Question About Being and Presence](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/erics-question-about-being-and-presence/) - Written By: Bricker, Jeffrey Dear Forum Members, In yesterday’s post Eric asks a series of question regarding Heidegger’s “thinking of being” as “presence/the present/the presencing of the present/the present”. He wonders if Heidegger is claiming that this is how the metaphysical tradition sees things or is how our hero Heidegger sees things? Although I
- [FUNDAMENTAL ONTOLOGY?](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/fundamental-ontology/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan Dear friends. In the original plan of SZ, would the term “fundamental ontology” have covered the whole of SZ Part One, i.e., including SZ I.3, “Time and Being”? Or would it (and does it) fit only the “existential analytic,” i.e., SZ Part One, Divisions One and Two, viz., the published
- [FUNDAMENTAL ONTOLOGY AND GELVIN](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/fundamental-ontology-and-gelvin/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan Dear Jeff, Thanks for this. With you, I’m inclined to hold that fundamental ontology as projected in 1927 covers SZ I.1-3, i.e., including the unpublished “Time and Being.” As you quote him here (p. 33), Gelvin holds to that position, in opposition to those who would limit F.O. to SZ
- [FINDING HEIDEGGER TEXTS IN GERMAN ON LINE](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/finding-heidegger-texts-in-german-on-line/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan Dear friends, I have sent you some Heidegger texts that are on line. For any future searches on your own part, I include these instructions from my assistant. Best wishes, --TomThe most fruitful website seems to be 4shared.com For example: This is a link to GA 62: http://www.4shared.com/office/fyDIavOf/Martin_Heidegger_-_Gesamtausga.html On the
- [FOUR QUESTIONS](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/four-questions/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan
- [FOUR QUESTIONS: DAVID KLEINBERG-LEVIN](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/four-questions-david-kleinberg-levin/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan Dear David, If Being evokes thaumazein, would Being always and only occur ("wesen") only when there is Dasein, i.e., someone who can wonder? Or can Being "be" ("wesen") without Dasein, and if so, (a) what would it be doing in the absence of Dasein, say in the Jurassic Period and
- [FOUR QUESTIONS: LARRY AND RICK](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/four-questions-larry-and-rick/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan Dear Rick and Larry, Are you both saying that Sein in the Jurassic Period is only "potential" Sein? What exactly would that mean? How would "potential" Sein differ from Sein-when-Dasein-has-appeared? Where does Heidegger speak of such "potential" Sein? And could we also say that Dasein existed potentially (but not "actually") in the
- [NDPR Martin Heidegger The Event](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/ndpr-martin-heidegger-the-event/) - ________________________________________ Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2013.09.23 View this Review Online View Other NDPR Reviews Martin Heidegger, The Event, Richard Rojcewicz (tr.), Indiana University Press, 2013, 311pp., $45.00 (hbk), ISBN 9780253006868. Reviewed by Miguel de Beistegui, Univeristy of Warwick The Event is the sixth of a series of seven treatises written between 1936 and 1944, and
- [FREE, SEARCHABLE DIGITAL COPIES OF THE GA](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/free-searchable-digital-copies-of-the-ga/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan Dear friends, Through an Irish colleague, Prof Niall Keane of Limerick, I've been led to a site from which one can download much (all?) of the GA as searchable PDF files. http://bookza.org/ Best regards, Tom -- Thomas Sheehan Stanford University Stanford, CA 94305-2165 650 723-3322http://religiousstudies.stanford.edu/people/tom-sheehan/
- [Fade to black . . .](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/fade-to-black/) - Written By: ERIC J SANDBERG Ingvild: A last alpha and omega and I'll slip back into the great abyss . . . Heidegger has to be read at root. For someone like myself who doesn't read German, where a translator feels it necessary to provide the German, I'm put on guard and look the
- [FIVE FINAL QUESTIONS FOR RICHARD C.](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/five-final-questions-for-richard-c/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan Dear Richard, 1. So, no deal? No brief, substantial responses to those straightforward questions? 2. It's fine not to be convinced. But in a collegial dialogue can one simply say, "I already told you my reasons, and I won't repeat them"? 3. Is it enough to say "Your position is
- [FOR DAVID: HEIDEGGER SAYS DASEIN *IS* THE CLEARING](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/for-david-heidegger-says-dasein-is-the-clearing/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan Dear David: 1. "The Da that is referred to in the word Da-sein is where a Lichtung takes place. " No, the Da is the clearing; and the sein bespeaks what Heidegger calls ausstehen: “sustaining” the clearing in the sense of “ keeping it open.” 2. " Yes, Ereignis is
- [Et tu Brutalitas](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/et-tu-brutalitas/) - Written By: ERIC J SANDBERG Richard: Simply stunning. Literally stunning. It's as if someone took away my kaleidoscope, broke it open and dropped in a handful of different color glass and handed it back to me. And now I have nothing to do but begin the arduous task of '(re)focusing' it again. The meticulous
- [FOR RICHARD C: финита ля комедия!](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/for-richard-c-финита-ля-комедия/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan As I said, Richard, "Finito il carnevale." Or as Mascagni's Canio might put it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ReewuKqhZls So: Where and when shall we discuss this publicly? -- with whatever weapons, seconds, and rules of your choosing? (If it were my choice:) For weapons I'd suggest: texts and solid arguments, the usual stuff
- [FINAL VERSION: RESPONSE TO 2PM "METHODOLOGY" PAPERS TODAY](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/final-version-response-to-2pm-methodology-papers-today/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan Dear friends, I attach a cheat-sheet for my brief response to the three excellent papers in the Methodology" section today at 2:00 pm. The purpose of this is to speed up the response and so to allow more time for discussion. This draft is different from the one I sent
- [Eric's recent question](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/erics-recent-question/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan Dear friends, In order to get at Eric's recent question to Richard, it seems (1)we would first need to figure out the meanings of and differences among Sein, Seyn, andSeyn (see the brief list below).(2) Then we would have to figure out which of the three (= X) is "withdrawn,"(3) . .
- [Evil, Fallenness, Finitude: call for papers](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/evil-fallenness-finitude-call-for-papers/) - Attachments-351/SCPT 2015 Call for Papers Final Version.pdf
- [FEDIER ON HEIDEGGER AND ANTI-SEMITISM](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/fedier-on-heidegger-and-anti-semitism/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan Dear friends, Perhaps Vezin was reacting to statements like the following, dating from January 2014. --Tom http://www.zeit.de/2014/03/francois-fedier-ueber-martin-heidegger
- [Faye](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/faye/) - Emmanuel Faye s near-obsessive pursuit of Heidegger should give us much to be thankful for his scholarship, in direct contradistinction to the conclusions he draws from it, is quite often impeccable, and I have more than once directed students to follow the trails in Faye s work in order to illuminate particular themes for their
- [Eric asks: "What happened to Da-'sein'?"](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/eric-asks-what-happened-to-da-sein/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan Dear friends: Eric Sandberg asks: "The Daseinfrage. What happened to Da-'sein' in Heidegger's not so celebrated 'turn?'" Heidegger answers: "Das Da-seyn ist das Ereignis der Kehre" (GA 71: 205.20 = 175.20; Heidegger's italics) "Da-seyn is the event of the turning." (Rojcewicz's translation)1 Wild hypothesis: If we could figure out this
- [Excess](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/excess/) - Written By: ERIC J SANDBERG Gooodmooorning Moribund-city (LOL): From the very beginning of "The End of Philosophy," where Heidegger is interrogating the distinction of 'whatness' and 'thatness,' he questions whether the 'two' (are they?) concepts exhaust 'Being' or whether there might be an "excess." We would be remiss not to note the ties to
- [Ewegen on Capobianco](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/ewegen-on-capobianco/) - Dear Forum Members, Yesterday Philippe drew our attention to a interesting review of Richard's new book on the Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews. The author, Professor Ewegen, does a much better job than I've done in my posts in capturing both the content and tone of Heidegger's Way of Being. Ewegen's only criticisms concern Richard's quoting
- [errartum](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/errartum/) - In my previous post I misquoted Letter on Humanism. The citation in question should in fact read "[being] as the location of the truth of being amid entities, gathers to itself and embraces ek-sistence in its existential, that is, ecstatic essence [my emphasis]." So let's say something about gathering. Before doing that, however, it is
- [Fact, factum, Urfaktum](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/fact-factum-urfaktum/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan Dear Reg, In my post I intend "fact" not as a Tatsache but rather as what-is-always-already-operative (das Gewesene). That's why I wrote it as factum, the past participle: that which is always already "done." The factum that really counts is the Urfaktum that I cited, which is not a Tatsache at all
- [Faye’s response to Badiou in Frankfurter Rundschau, May 08, 2015](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/fayes-response-to-badiou-in-frankfurter-rundschau-may-08-2015/) - Written By: ptheophanidis Dear members, For those who may be interested in documenting this particular debate, an interview with Faye was recently published in Frankfurter Rundschau (2015.05.08): "Martin Heidegger und die Nazis" In a comment he added a few days later at Jean-Clet Martin's blog Strass de la philosophie, Faye suggested that the interview was
- [Extraordinary thesaurus of Greek and Latin texts online](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/extraordinary-thesaurus-of-greek-and-latin-texts-online/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan Dear friends, Thanks to Alfred Denker, who provides this URL to a host of Greek and Latin texts in "Googlebooks." http://www.google.com/googlebooks/ancient-greek-and-latin.html To access a text, click on the "read in your browser" at the far right. Best regards, Tom
- [error](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/error/) - In my last post "ye gods!" "abandonment by beyng" should be "abandonment by being".
- [event and accident (Deleuze)](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/event-and-accident-deleuze/) - "Events are ideal. Novalis says that there are two trains of events, one ideal, the other real and imperfect, for example ideal protestantism and real Lutheranism. But the distinction isn't between two sorts of events, it is between the event ideal by nature and its spatio-temporal effectuation in a state of affairs (etat de choses).
- [everyone's a hero!!](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/everyones-a-hero/) - Dear Forum, Is history the answer or the question? It's both. It is a question that would lead the self beyond itself, beyond its positing of itself as the purpose of its striving. Insofar as the question is good it would release the self from its struggle for/with itself and thus it would be an answer to that problem. History
- [FAYE FIGHTS BACK -- via Prof. F. Rastier](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/faye-fights-back-via-prof-f-rastier/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan See attachment. Tom Attachments-348/09 SEPT - RASTIER vs ARTICLE.pdf
- [Excerpt from Carlo Galli’s “The Logos Lost in the Forest”, Il Manifesto](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/excerpt-from-carlo-gallis-the-logos-lost-in-the-forest-il-manifesto/) - Written By: antoniouk Dear all, I think it is worth reading the following excerpt from Carlo Galli's article that raises very important points about the Black Notebooks. Enjoy and best wishes, Antonio Excerpt from Carlo Galli's "The Logos Lost in the Forest", Il Manifesto [...] Anti-Semitism is more implicit than explicit here (in the
- [Excerpt from a forthcoming article](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/excerpt-from-a-forthcoming-article/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan Dear friends, Attached are the concluding paragraphs of a short essay to appear in 2016. I welcome any critiques or improvements. Best wishes for a peaceful and just New Year. Tom Attachments-350/Except from a forthcoming article.pdf
- [Essay](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/essay/) - Hi All: Attached is an essay of mine newly released in Gatherings. Any feedback would be welcome. Cheers, Larry Lawrence J. Hatab Louis I. Jaffe Professor of Philosophy Emeritus Old Dominion University 5351 Monessen Ct. Las Vegas NV 89141 Attachments-352/Hatab the point of language.pdf
- [FURTHER DIALOGUE WITH LARRY BERGER re GA 7](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/further-dialogue-with-larry-berger-re-ga-7/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan Dear Larry, I've attempted a response to your last mail (23 November). Attached are both your mail and my response. I look forward to any corrections or critiques that you or the other colleagues might care to offer. Best regards, Tom Attachments-346/LARRY BERGER, 23 NOVEMBER.docxAttachments-346/RESPONSE TO LARRY BERGER 3.XII.16 -
- [Ernst Juenger's 'The Worker'](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/ernst-juengers-the-worker/) - Dear all, I'm very happy to announce (after eight long years) that Bogdan Costea's and my translation of Ernst J nger's 'Der Arbeiter' has been published by Northwestern University Press as 'The Worker: Dominion and Form'. Northwestern have genersously extended a promotional 25% discount to all members of the Heidegger Circle, and to any students
- [Existential Medicine](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/existential-medicine/) - Existential Medicine: Essays on Health and Illness, edited by Kevin Aho, is forthcoming in the New Heidegger Research series this May. Existential Medicine explores the recent impact that the philosophies of existentialism, phenomenology, and hermeneutics have had on the health care professions. A growing body of scholarship drawing primarily on the work of Martin Heidegger and
- [feeling presents](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/feeling-presents/) - Dear Forum, In a spirit of good will and jest I offer the following clue as to the inevitable gift I have purchased for the organisers of the Sophist reading group in London: Unblushing, this god of courageIs naked and scornful of pomp.Tempting, divining ones mettleFreeing gold from the gloomy swampOf heavy hearts, he finds
- [Fact checking Heidegger's Animals](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/fact-checking-heideggers-animals/) - I'm reading the Fundamental Concepts of Metaphysics for the first time, and I am impressed by the number of ontic examples he gives. However, this lecture was given in 1929, so suffice it to say, the examinations presented as evidence are likely outdated to a certain extent. Has anyone done a review updating these examples
- [Errata in GA](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/errata-in-ga/) - Here's a link to a collection of errata in the Gesamtausgabe, offered by Klostermann on a rather well-hidden page of their website: https://www.klostermann.de/epages/63574303.sf/de_DE/?ObjectPath=/Shops/63574303/Categories/Buecher/Philosophie/%22Martin+Heidegger%22/Corrigenda Richard
- [Film Aesthetics and Heidegger](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/film-aesthetics-and-heidegger/) - Written By: J. Dear colleagues, Is it possible to bring Heidegger into a discussion of Film Aesthetics? What's the status (if there is any) of the art of Film to Heidegger? Yours, Juliana
- [For Paul Anthony](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/for-paul-anthony/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan Dear Paul (if I may),At this point, the best I can do in responding to your question is to refer you to the article “The Turn” in Brett Davis, ed., Martin Heidegger: Key Concepts. A caution: I’m not satisfied with the article and would change some of it.The short form
- [Forever beginning](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/forever-beginning/) - Dear Friends, At the beginning of Phenomenology of Religious Life, Heidegger says," I wish to increase and keep awake philosophy's need to be ever turning upon preliminary questions, so much so that it will indeed become a virtue." I've always been fascinated by Heidegger's incessant habit of beginning philosophy anew before he gets to the
- [Final Note on Impasse](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/final-note-on-impasse/) - Dear Tom, Your choice of words is often curious to me and no doubt to others. No "accusation" was made--what an odd interpretation of the matter! I have simply pointed out that your reduction of Sein to Sinn is not something new under the philosophical sun; it is a position that closely resembles, if it
- [Freiheit und Geschick - Freedom and Destiny - Messkirch conference - May 22-25, 2014](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/freiheit-und-geschick-freedom-and-destiny-messkirch-conference-may-22-25-2014/) - Attachments-341/postkarte-quer 29.4.13.pdf
- [First title in New Heidegger Research series](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/first-title-in-new-heidegger-research-series/) - As Heidegger Circle members know, we are editing the series New Heidegger Research for Rowman & Littlefield International. We can now announce that our first title will be Thomas Sheehan's Making Sense of Heidegger: A Paradigm Shift. In this book, Tom brings together the meticulously-researched ideas that his articles, talks, and contributions to this list have
- [Forthcoming new book: "Heidegger's Way of Being"](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/forthcoming-new-book-heideggers-way-of-being/) - Good morning, all, Very much in the spirit of the Aus-einander-setzung that Richard P. spoke of in his recent post, I have a new book, Heidegger's Way of Being, that will appear later in 2014 from the University of Toronto Press. I look forward to discussion with all of you. Here is the provisional copy for
- [Fourth issue of the Bulletin heideggérien](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/fourth-issue-of-the-bulletin-heideggerien/) - Written By: Christophe Perrin Dear Colleagues, dear Friends,The last and fourth issue of the Bulletin heidegg rien is now downloadable by following this link: http://www.uclouvain.be/cps/ucl/doc/isp/documents/BHDG-4-2014.pdf and soon this one : : http://www.paris-sorbonne.fr/la-recherche/les-unites-de-recherche/concepts-et-langages-ed5/metaphysique-histoires/presentation-4664/centre-d-hermeneutique/programme-4966/article/bulletin-heideggerienWith best wishes from Sylvain Camilleri and myself,C.Dr Christophe PerrinCharg de recherches au FNRSUniversit catholique de LouvainInstitut sup rieur de philosophiePlace du Cardinal
- [For the archives](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/for-the-archives/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/h/martin_heidegger/index.html Thomas Sheehan Stanford University Stanford, CA 94305-2165 650 723-3322http://religiousstudies.stanford.edu/people/tom-sheehan/
- [Field List](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/field-list/) - Written By: Sidney Farb I would like to propose a small project for the list here. Could we come up with a field list of secondary sources, works which we think every Heidegger scholar should be familiar with? I don't know exactly how to do this, but I suppose we could all make suggestions
- [From the Bughouse](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/from-the-bughouse/) - Written By: ERIC J SANDBERG Dear Circlers All: Like 'life,' which is to say out of the factical circumstances that we can 'discover' being at all, be-ing exhibits a stretched acrossness. Heidegger is messy about the issue so for neatness sake we might call the stretchedness of 'life' (please note the scare quotes, it's
- [From the Heidegger conference in Messkirch](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/from-the-heidegger-conference-in-messkirch/) - Written By: Babette Babich Photograph of Bill Richardson in Messkirch, Germany this past Saturday, with St Martin's Church in the background...Sent from my iPhone
- [From The Martin Heidegger Jokebook...](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/from-the-martin-heidegger-jokebook/) - Written By: eric d. meyer Dear Heideggerians: To further deepen the scandal surrounding the notorious (...gasp!!!!...) "Black Notebooks".... I provide this example of Martin Heidegger's seldom-mentioned and less appreciated "humor": Vielleicht ist es das Schwierigiste, als >>Philosophieprofessor
- [For Richard Polt](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/for-richard-polt/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan Dear Richard, If I may, I'd like to ask for some clarifications about your last post. With thanks, Tom _________________ On Thursday, July 31, 2014 12:57:22 PM UTC-4, Richard Polt wrote: I have asked in the past whether Geworfenheit and Geworfenwerden mean the same. It seems to me that the
- [For grad students and unemployed scholar](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/for-grad-students-and-unemployed-scholar/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan [This message is only for graduate students and scholars who do not have jobs.] Dear friends, If you cannot afford the cost of a forthcoming book on Heidegger [$34.95!!] but nonetheless would like to read it, could you let me know? Tom https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781783481194
- [for Jeff Bricker: re your recent post](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/for-jeff-bricker-re-your-recent-post/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan Dear Jeff, 1. Sein = the manifestness/manifestation ( ) of things---but within Heidegger's phenomenology that means the meaningful presence or intelligibility (Anwesen, Verst ndlichkeit) of things within die Welt, within this or that world of meaningfulness structured by the concern/s of Dasein. 2. Hence, Heidegger would agree, I think, with
- [Forthcoming](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/forthcoming/) - Written By: Babette Babich With all congratulations to the editors of this forthcoming collection! Tziovanis Georgakis and Paul Ennis (eds.), Heidegger in the Twenty-First Century (Frankfurt am Main: Springer, 2015) http://www.springer.com/philosophy/philosophical+traditions/book/978-94-017-9678-1
- [Finis](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/finis/) - Written By: ERIC J SANDBERG Recap? No. Addendum, some X factor that strikes with the force of epiphany? Not. Say only some nine or eleven 'post-suppositions' gleaned along the 'way' and here offered as preface by which to organize these past and present meanderings as 'way.' There is no Heideggerian 'philosophy,' no philosophy of
- [Fourfold](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/fourfold/) - Written By: ERIC J SANDBERG Hello All: To continue. The fourfold is Heidegger's attempt at a pre-conceptual language that he thought he found in the pre-Socratics. It isn't clear whether he expects us to 'decipher' the modalities through classical philosophical discourse. I suggest he did and the model is his own use of classical
- [For those who just can't get enough of Faye et Cie](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/for-those-who-just-cant-get-enough-of-faye-et-cie/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan (Attachment) -- Thomas Sheehan Stanford University Stanford, CA 94305-2165 650 723-3322http://religiousstudies.stanford.edu/people/tom-sheehan/ Attachments-342/Heidegger_und_die_Vernichtung_der_Juden.pdf
- [From Christophe Perrin](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/from-christophe-perrin/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan Dear friends,As the storm clouds gather, our colleague Christophe Perrin of the Universit catholique de Louvain, co-author with Fran ois Jaran of the Heidegger Concordance, and 2015 Visiting Scholar at Stanford University, sends these recent articles from Corriere della Sera.Best regards,Tom Attachments-340/E. FAYE, in Corriere della Sera (21.VII.2015), p. 39.pdfAttachments-340/P.
- [For Richard: two more texts](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/for-richard-two-more-texts/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan Dear Richard, Also, how might you interpret the following two texts ? Tom =========== GA 73, 1: 790.4--8: "Der Bezug [des Seyns zum Menschen] ist jedoch nicht zwischen das Seyn und den Menschen eingespannt. . . . Der Bezug ist das Seyn selbst, und das Menschenwesen ist der selbe Bezug."
- [from existential self-dramatization to elucidation?](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/from-existential-self-dramatization-to-elucidation/) - Thanks to Professor Polt for the citation he posted yesterday. Here is another citation, this one from Bernard Sichere's L'etre et le divin, I have the e-book but the citation is from chapter one, Sichere writes of Heidegger that he contributes "the entire taking into account [prise en compte] of the anterior history that has brought us here, to this
- [For those interested in Heidegger and the Philosophy of Science](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/for-those-interested-in-heidegger-and-the-philosophy-of-science/) - Written By: Babette Babich 'though the word 'paradigm' does come up around p. xviii. The late Patrick Aidan Heelan's The Observable: Heisenberg's Philosophy of Quantum Mechanics was released 15 November 2015. I have not seen the physical book as yet (downside of being on leave this year) but you can order a copy for
- [Figal / "Heideggerianertum"](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/figal-heideggerianertum/) - Written By: Joachim Kübler Maybe of interest to the members who are familiar with German. The interview with G nter Figal in which he proclaimed the end of the "Heideggerianertum". Source: "Information Philosophie" 1/2015. Greetings, Joachim Attachments-343/Figal.pdf
- [Four questions distinguished](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/four-questions-distinguished/) - I think Greg has put things very well. He inspires me to distinguish among the following four questions: 1. Is Heidegger defensible? --- In my opinion, by now we are familiar with many of his statements and actions that are not defensible. There are those who still try to defend all of them, including all
- [Fink's writings on play](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/finks-writings-on-play/) - Written By: Ian Moore Dear Forum Members, I wanted to let you know that my co-translation of Eugen Fink's collected writings on play just appeared: https://www.amazon.com/Play-Symbol-World-Writings-Continental/dp/0253021057/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1466494706&sr=8-1&keywords=eugen+fink Fink implicitly draws on lecture courses of Heidegger that he had attended (especially GA 27 and GA 29/30) to develop a speculative phenomenology of play. The volume, which
- [for future generations!](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/for-future-generations/) - The appropriating event of the coming to be of un-concealment divinises, that is, beyng, as such an 'event', trembles in Da-sein. This can be the appropriation of Dasein to the intimation and hence not yet the last god or the truth of beyng and no longer the history of the first inception. The clearing of the
- [From the Etymology of Truth to the Truth of Etymology](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/from-the-etymology-of-truth-to-the-truth-of-etymology/) - Written By: Sean Driscoll Dear Forum, I have really benefitted from the recent discussion on truth and thought I'd take the opportunity to ask about a related interest. Is anyone aware of a sustained study of Heidegger's etymologizing? I have read insightful comments here and there, but I am unaware of anyone who has
- [food for thought from B&T (feel free to ignore)](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/food-for-thought-from-bt-feel-free-to-ignore/) - "In the light of the "for-the-sake-of-which" of one's self-chosen potentiality-for-Being, resolute Dasein frees itself for its world." B&T344/S&Z298 I always found this comment food for thought. (And isn't there a sense of destiny implicit in it? Furthermore, off the top of my head, isn't the world worth fighting sometimes for and sometimes against...) If this post is found
- [Free copies of "Becoming Heidegger," either as a book or a PDF](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/free-copies-of-becoming-heidegger-either-as-a-book-or-a-pdf/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan Thomas Sheehan has shared a OneDrive for Business file with you. To view it, click the link below. 1 BECOMING HEIDEGGER Complete.pdf Dear friends, Becoming Heidegger, second edition, edited by Ted Kisiel and m'self, was published in paperback in 2009 by Noesis Press, as volume IX of The New Yearbook for
- [funny](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/funny/) - Dear Forum, Of course, the event is not the Ereignis of Contributions to Philosophy. This Ereignis is a saying and thus a verbal 'thing'... It is also Seynsgeschichtliche and if you can't get involved with Seynsgeschichte you can't say it. (If you're like me you can only hope to get the gist of it.) But
- [Franco Volpi's Heidegger and Aristotle](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/franco-volpis-heidegger-and-aristotle/) - Things to do in 2018: read the new translation Heidegger and Aristotle. Report typos, infelicities, and other corrections to me. Thanks,Pete
- [Four queries to Richard Capobianco](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/four-queries-to-richard-capobianco/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan Dear Richard, Thanks very much for sharing your essay on in Heraclitus. It's a brilliant text and beautifully written. Your comments on Ma at p. 472 are particularly helpful. Four queries: 1. No one in the Hd guild (certainly not I) would disagree with your strong reaffirmations that the clearing
- [from the brow and the heart in return for great hospitality](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/from-the-brow-and-the-heart-in-return-for-great-hospitality/) - To reveal beneficenceWhat could God possibly doOther than offer a gift,Offer something of value?"Why have you forsaken me?"What was God supposed to do?Give preferential treatmentOr lose the thing of value? For a God who can do allThere cannot be a problem,Unless it give up power,Unless it lose its kingdom.It's a God that can't sufferItself as
- [From the archives](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/from-the-archives/) - Best,Reg Attachments-338/HC 1985.jpg
- [From the 1940 archives: Bill Richardson as Richard II](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/from-the-1940-archives-bill-richardson-as-richard-ii/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan Dear friends, Attached is a photo of Bill Richardson as Richard II at Holy Cross (1940). He also had the lead role in Sophocles' Antigone--the entire play done in Greek--but I don't know of any photos. Tom Attachments-339/- William J. Richardson as Richard II.pdf
- [from wreath via thrust to throw](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/from-wreath-via-thrust-to-throw/) - Dear Forum, My wreath has no inceptual thrust of art. I confess, it was an idea. Are ideas wholly out of place here? Perhaps they should be, even good ones. The thrust of the work of art shifts 'us' into the open realm that it has opened. It is for 'us' Bewahrenden to follow this
- [Heidegger Circle dues 2011](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/heidegger-circle-dues-2011/) - Dear HC members, This will be the final dues reminder for 2011; in a week, I will remove 2010 members from the Forum if they haven't renewed for this year. If you did renew, you should have received an e-mail confirmation either from PayPal or from me. If you're not sure whether you are up
- [CALL FOR PAPERS: Junior Conference "Heidegger in Marburg" (25.-27. November 201](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/call-for-papers-junior-conference-heidegger-in-marburg-25-27-november-201/) - Begin forwarded message: Reply-To: "nachwuchstagung@philosophie.uni-freiburg.de" CALL FOR PAPERS: Junior Conference "Heidegger in Marburg" (25.-27. November 2011) The Martin-Heidegger-Gesellschaft e.V. is organizing a junior conference for Graduate Students and Postdoctoral Scholars in connection with its bi-annual conference. The conference will take place at the University of Marburg, Germany, from November 22 to November 24 2011.
- [ICNAP III almost set up....](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/icnap-iii-almost-set-up/) - (This email is directed to the contact persons I have for phenomenological organizations in North America and to request that it be passed along to the members of your organizations.) Dear Colleague, This is to report that ICNAP III is almost set up (on Thursday we will add to the website a grid with the
- [Heidegger and Subjectivity, University College Dublin, Feb. 10](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/heidegger-and-subjectivity-university-college-dublin-feb-10/) - Begin forwarded message: I wanted to bring to your attention that we will be hosting an event on Friday the 10th of February entitled Heidegger and Subjectivity. You will find the program and poster in attached file. I would be very grateful if you could put these informations on your web site. Also, if the
- [ICNAP Phenomenology Conference](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/icnap-phenomenology-conference/) - Begin forwarded message: Dear Friends: I am writing in order to request your help in forwarding this email, with the attachment, to the members of your North American phenomenological organization. The attached flyer will serve to announce the Forth Annual Conference of the Interdisciplinary Coalition of North American Phenomenologists (ICNAP IV), at Fordham University on
- [Martin Heidegger. Moscow State University](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/martin-heidegger-moscow-state-university/) - Heideggerian news from Russia ... Dear colleagues, I address to you on behalf of the Russian researchers of philosophy of Martin Heidegger. In the framework of the "Continental philosophy" (Moscow State University), we have been conducting philosophical seminars on heideggeriana, and promote the development of research in this direction in Russia. My teacher, professor and
- [Bulletin heideggérien n°3](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/bulletin-heideggerien-n3/) - Begin forwarded message: Christophe Perrin March 15, 2013 3:04:36 PM EDT Cc: Sylvain Camilleri Bulletin heidegg rien n 3 Chers Professeurs, chers coll gues, chers amis, Sylvain Camilleri et moi-m me avons la joie de vous annoncer la parution du troisi me num ro duBulletin heid ggerien. Vous le trouverez en libre-acc s
- [Seeking help/advice with a Heidegger translation.](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/seeking-help-advice-with-a-heidegger-translation/) - Hi,Can anyone collaborate with Cesar?Thanks,Pete ----- Forwarded Message ----- Seeking help/advice with a Heidegger translation. Hi Pete, I am a Ph.D. in Architecture student at the University of Illinois and I need some help with some Heidegger translations. I am translating some poems, short pieces, lectures, and essays from GA 13 and GA 81, and
- [A Rhetorical Theory of Prophecy](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/a-rhetorical-theory-of-prophecy/) - The following was sent to a rhetoric list, but I thought it might be of some interest here. It's based on A.j.. Heschel's notion of prophetic sympathy wherein the prophet "hears" God's message by sym-pathizing ( what Heschel calls divine pathos) with God's reaction to what the people are doing, thus relating his message to
- [Joan Stambaugh](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/joan-stambaugh/) - Begin forwarded message: "Edler, Frank" June 8, 2013 10:12:16 AM EDT "polt@xavier.edu" Joan Stambaugh Dear Richard, My wife and I have just visited with Joan in Maine for a couple of days. Monday, June 10, is her eighty-first birthday. Due to strokes she is bed-ridden and has difficulty speaking; however, after reading a
- [Favor request for books](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/favor-request-for-books/) - HC members: I am currently out of the US and have no access to my spare books, but perhaps some of you would like to help Mr. Santos. If you can, please write to him directly, and please report to this list on any outcome. thanks, Richard Begin forwarded message: gabriel santos July 25,
- [50th Anniversary of Hannah Arendt's Eichmann in Jerusalem](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/50th-anniversary-of-hannah-arendts-eichmann-in-jerusalem/) - Having trouble reading?View as web page. Share this email:Forward to a friend We are excited to announce that the Hannah Arendt:Eichmann in Jerusalem50 years after conference website is nowlive. We encourage you to visit the site, explore the program, read about the participants, and most importantly register for the conference which will take place fromSeptember
- [Heidegger-Jahrbuch 7 "Heidegger und das ostasiatische Denken" / "Freiheit und Geschick" / "Freedom and Destiny", International Conference, Meßkirch, May 22-25, 2014](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/heidegger-jahrbuch-7-heidegger-und-das-ostasiatische-denken-freiheit-und-geschick-freedom-and-destiny-international-conference-meskirch-may-22-25-2014/) - Begin forwarded message: Cc: Alfred Denker Conference, Me kirch, May 22-25, 2014 Sehr geehrte Damen und Herren, es ist mir eine Freude, Ihnen auch im Namen von Dr. Alfred Denker den "call for papers" f r die n chste Me kircher Martin Heidegger-Konferenz zum Thema "Freiheit und Geschick" zuzusenden. Weitere Informationen finden Sie unter
- [2014 SPEP Program Announced](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/2014-spep-program-announced/) - Dear Heidegger Circle members, Here's some information about the upcoming SPEP conference. The program for our satellite sesseion can be found here: http://heideggercircle.org/meetings.html Richard Polt Dear SPEP Member- We are very happy to announce the details of the 53rd Annual SPEP Conference to be held in New Orleans, LA, October 23-25, 2014. The 2014 SPEP
- [A new edition of Heidegger's Introduction to Metaphysics](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/a-new-edition-of-heideggers-introduction-to-metaphysics/) - Begin forwarded message: Yale University Press September 10, 2014 10:02:13 AM EDT A new edition of Heidegger's Introduction to Metaphysics Reply-To: Yale University Press Click hereto view this email as a web page Now available for your classroom, an updated translation of Martin Heidegger's classic text Introduction to Metaphysics Second Edition by Martin
- [Have you examined the new edition of Heidegger's Introduction to Metaphysics?](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/have-you-examined-the-new-edition-of-heideggers-introduction-to-metaphysics/) - Dear HC members, Here's a chance to get a free copy of the new edition of Introduction to Metaphysics. I assume this offer is valid only for those currently teaching. If anyone else would like a copy, I have a few spares to give away. Just send me an e-mail directly. Richard Begin forwarded message:
- [Appropriation/assimilation](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/appropriation-assimilation/) - Written By: ERIC J SANDBERG --- On Tue, 12/2/14, ERIC J SANDBERG wrote: Okay! Liar, liar pants on fire . . . Some clarification. Being hasn't exactly been consigned to Appropriation. "Being can [still?] be proffered as the highest, most significant event of all" [Stambaugh, 21] What has happened is that as soon
- [Figal steps down as president of Heidegger society because of Schwarze Hefte antisemitism](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/figal-steps-down-as-president-of-heidegger-society-because-of-schwarze-hefte-antisemitism/) - http://www.swr.de/swr2/kultur-info/kulturthema/philosoph-guenter-figal-tritt-als-vorsitzender-der-martin-heidegger-gesellschaft-zurueck/-/id=10016988/nid=10016988/did=14891960/fon4u7/index.html
- [Article attached](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/article-attached/) - Begin forwarded message: The article is now attached, courtesy of Ian Moore, for anyone on the list who wants a copy. Best, Joydeep Dr. Joydeep Bagchee Zukunftsphilologie: Revisiting the Canons of Textual Scholarship Academia.edu Homepage Oxford Bibliographies Online: Hinduism The Nay Science Reading the Fifth Veda When the Goddess Was a Woman Transcultural Encounters between
- [NDPR Martin Heidegger The Beginning of Western Philosophy: Interpretation of Anaximander and Parmenides](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/ndpr-martin-heidegger-the-beginning-of-western-philosophy-interpretation-of-anaximander-and-parmenides/) - Begin forwarded message: Reply-To: agutting@ND.EDU Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2015.10.04 View this Review Online View Other NDPR Reviews Martin Heidegger, The Beginning of Western Philosophy: Interpretation of Anaximander and Parmenides, Richard Rojcewicz (tr.), Indiana University Press, 2015, 219pp., $50.00 (hbk), ISBN 9780253015532. Reviewed by William McNeill, DePaul University "Our mission: the cessation of philosophizing?" With this
- [NDPR David Farrell Krell Ecstasy, Catastrophe: Heidegger from Being and Time to the Black Notebooks](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/ndpr-david-farrell-krell-ecstasy-catastrophe-heidegger-from-being-and-time-to-the-black-notebooks/) - Begin forwarded message: Reply-To: agutting@ND.EDU Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2015.10.26 View this Review Online View Other NDPR Reviews David Farrell Krell, Ecstasy, Catastrophe: Heidegger from Being and Time to the Black Notebooks, SUNY Press, 2015, 201pp., $75.00 (hbk), ISBN 9781438458250. Reviewed by Richard Capobianco, Stonehill College This latest book by the distinguished scholar, translator, and author
- [Appeal for the preservation of the Martin-Heidegger­-Institute, Wuppertal](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/appeal-for-the-preservation-of-the-martin-heidegger-institute-wuppertal/) - I think this petition will be of interest to everyone on this list. I just signed. Please consider doing so as well, and sharing the appeal with friends. Richard Begin forwarded message: Chiara Caradonna Appeal for the preservation of the Martin-Heidegger -Institute, Wuppertal April 13, 2016 at 8:39:22 AM EDT Dear Prof. Polt,
- [Klostermann Newsletter Mai 2016](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/klostermann-newsletter-mai-2016/) - Written By: Joachim Kübler FYI New publication by Klostermann: GA 80.1 Best, Joachim Anfang der weitergeleiteten Nachricht: Von: Verlag Vittorio Klostermann Betreff: Klostermann Newsletter Mai 2016 Datum: 10. Mai 2016 um 13:10:46 MESZ An: Hans-Joachim K bler Antwort an: Verlag Vittorio Klostermann Liebe Leserinnen, liebe Leser,mit Band 80.1 der Martin Heidegger
- [Does das Seiende = Seiendheit = Anwesen = οὐσία?](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/does-das-seiende-seiendheit-anwesen-οὐσία/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan Dear Laurence,Below are the responses, mostly in the form of questions (as yet unanswered) to your earlier posts. I'm not sure which of your points/questions I haven't responded to. In any case I'm happy to wait until September, and I hope that meanwhile you have a pleasant time down under.
- [NDPR Martin Heidegger The History of Beyng](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/ndpr-martin-heidegger-the-history-of-beyng/) - Begin forwarded message: Anastasia Friel Gutting NDPR Martin Heidegger The History of Beyng August 14, 2016 at 10:00:02 PM EDT PHILOSOPHICAL-REVIEWS@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Reply-To: agutting@ND.EDU Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2016.08.17 View this Review Online View Other NDPR Reviews Martin Heidegger, The History of Beyng, William McNeill and Jeffrey Powell (trs.), Indiana University Press, 2015, 208pp.,
- [Collegium Phaenomenologicum](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/collegium-phaenomenologicum/) - Dear Heidegger Circle Affiliates, As the Director of the 2017 meetingof the Collegium Phaenomenologicum, I am now accepting applications from prospective participants. The Collegium will take place in Citta di Castello (near Perugia), Italy, July 10-28. It will be preceded by a Participants Conference on July 8-9. The general topic will be "Natures of Space,
- [Seminar in Seattlewith Andrew Mitchell on The Fourfold](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/seminar-in-seattlewith-andrew-mitchell-on-the-fourfold/)
- [NDPR Dominique Janicaud Heidegger in France](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/ndpr-dominique-janicaud-heidegger-in-france/) - Begin forwarded message: Reply-To: agutting@ND.EDU Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2017.01.07 View this Review Online View Other NDPR Reviews Dominique Janicaud, Heidegger in France, Fran ois Raffoul and David Pettigrew (trs.), Indiana University Press, 2015, 540pp., $85.00 (hbk), ISBN 9780253017734. Reviewed by Dennis J. Schmidt, Western Sydney University This book is an unusual intellectual history
- [2017 Collegium](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/2017-collegium/) - This July's Collegium Phaenomenologicum in Citt di Castello, Italy, will focus on matters of interest to Heideggerians, especially the first week. (I will be participating during that week.) More participants are invited to apply: Begin forwarded message: Bret Davis Re: 2017 Collegium Dear Faculty Members of the 2017 Collegium Phaenomenologicum, The deadline for applications
- [Further regarding Heidegger's letter to Jean Wahl, 1937](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/further-regarding-heideggers-letter-to-jean-wahl-1937/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan Dear friends, Just some further thoughts re Heidegger's letter (5 December 1937) to Jean Wahl. Tom Negatively: The German of Heidegger's letter says that his question is not about the existence "des Menschen." He means "existence" in the sense it has in the Existenzphilosophie on which Wahl had written, He
- [Furthermore, Heidegger says in this letter...](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/furthermore-heidegger-says-in-this-letter/) - The recently published book that I cited offers Heidegger's full letter, and Ian has offered his translation from his book. I encourage all to consult the full letter. Heidegger's words are open to interpretation, of course, but let us not stray too far from what he plainly says. He clearly states that his concern is
- [Bulletin heideggérien, nouveau numéro/new issue](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/bulletin-heideggerien-nouveau-numero-new-issue/) - Begin forwarded message: Christophe Perrin Bulletin heidegg rien, nouveau num ro/new issue May 8, 2017 at 3:31:43 PM EDT Christophe Perrin Chers Professeurs, chers coll gues, chers amis, Vous trouverez ci-joint le lien du nouveau num ro duBulletin heidegg rien :https://cdn.uclouvain.be/groups/cms-editors-isp/vhousiaux/BHDG-7.pdf. Au nom de Sylvain Camilleri comme en le mien, un grand MERCI tous
- [new book published on Ernst Jünger's Philosophy of Technology](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/new-book-published-on-ernst-jungers-philosophy-of-technology/) - Begin forwarded message: Vincent Blok new book published on Ernst J nger's Philosophy of Technology May 12, 2017 at 3:57:44 AM EDT Vincent Blok Dear colleagues, Sorry for the self-advertisement, but I am so happy to announce the publication of my book on Ernst J nger's Philosophy of Technology and his confrontation with
- [(in)authenticity](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/inauthenticity/) - Cc: While I doubt many people read my last email it is remarkable for having overlooked (in)authenticity. To cut a long story short, is it possible that change come from 'within'? If this is to occur one must somehow break the hold, or, the hold must somehow be broken of ones absorption in/as a present
- [NDPR Andrew J. Mitchell The Fourfold: Reading the Late Heidegger](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/ndpr-andrew-j-mitchell-the-fourfold-reading-the-late-heidegger/) - Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2017.06.06 View this Review Online View Other NDPR Reviews Andrew J. Mitchell, The Fourfold: Reading the Late Heidegger, Northwestern University Press, 2015, 372pp., $34.95 (pbk), IBSN 9780810130760. Reviewed by Gary E. Aylesworth, Eastern Illinois University In this volume, Andrew J. Mitchell examines the fourfold (das Geviert) as the key to Heidegger's later thinking. This
- [Call for Papers for SIP--Society for Italian Philosophy, March 23-25, 2018 at RIT, Rochester (NY)](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/call-for-papers-for-sip-society-for-italian-philosophy-march-23-25-2018-at-rit-rochester-ny/) - Begin forwarded message: Dear colleague, Please find attached the Call for Papers forSIP, theSociety for Italian Philosophy(https://www.societyforitalianphilosophy.org/), which will hold its second annual meetingMarch 23-25, 2018at the Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY. The confirmed keynote speakers are ProfessorsSimona Forti(University of Western Piedmont) andGianni Vattimo(University of Turin). We would be appreciative if you would please
- [Collegium Phaenomenologicum 2018--Aristotle on Phusis, Psuchê, and Anthrôpos](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/collegium-phaenomenologicum-2018-aristotle-on-phusis-psuche-and-anthropos/) - Collegium Phaenomenologicum 2018---Aristotle on Phusis, Psuch , and Anthr pos July 9-27th, Citt di Castello, Italy Directed by Sean D. Kirkland, DePaul University The topic of the 2018 Collegium Phaenomenologicum will be the Thought of Aristotle. The Collegium will convene once again in Citt di Castello, in Umbria, Italy, from July 9-27th. And this year
- [2018 Collegium Phaenomenologicum: Aristotle on Phusis, Psuchê, Anthrôpos, July 9-27, Città di Castello, Italy](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/2018-collegium-phaenomenologicum-aristotle-on-phusis-psuche-anthropos-july-9-27-citta-di-castello-italy/) - Please circulate, especially for grad students. Lawrence J. Hatab Louis I. Jaffe Professor of Philosophy Emeritus Old Dominion University 5351 Monessen Ct. Las Vegas NV 89141 757-277-1116 Hey Larry, I am writing in the hopes that you might forward this to any list serves to which you have access, where there might be some interested
- [Further thoughts on David Kleinberg-Levin's post](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/further-thoughts-on-david-kleinberg-levins-post/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan Dear David, Yes, I find myself in agreement with what you write here. I've added a few thoughts below. Tom You write: 1.I do think it makes sense to interpret the course of Western history from the standpoint of the recognition of the clearing. 1. Yes, of course. My question,
- [Further on Richard Polt's positions re Geschichte etc.](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/further-on-richard-polts-positions-re-geschichte-etc/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan Dear Richard, Yes, It's getting quite long. . . so again I've attached my response. Best regards, Tom Attachments-337/TO R POLT re GESCHICHTE, 24 DEC 2017.docx
- [NDPR Marco Simionato The Vindication of Nothingness](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/ndpr-marco-simionato-the-vindication-of-nothingness/) - Nichtung makes an inroad into analytic philosophy? Begin forwarded message: Reply-To: Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2018.01.08 View this Review Online View Other NDPR Reviews Marco Simionato, The Vindication of Nothingness, Editiones Scholasticae, 2017, 210pp., $106.00, ISBN 9783868385878. Reviewed by Frederick Kroon, University of Auckland Analytic philosophers and classically trained logicians will probably remember
- [NDPR Craig Callender What Makes Time Special?](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/ndpr-craig-callender-what-makes-time-special/) - The following book review makes me want to publish an article titled "Why Analytic Philosophers of Time Should Read Heidegger." But instead of that difficult and quixotic project, I will preach to the choir. The project of this book, according to the reviewer, is to explain, on the basis of physics and psychology, why an
- [NDPR Lester Embree and Michael D. Barber (eds.) The Golden Age of Phenomenology at the New School for Social Research, 1954-1973](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/ndpr-lester-embree-and-michael-d-barber-eds-the-golden-age-of-phenomenology-at-the-new-school-for-social-research-1954-1973/) - "As a whole, the book makes a persuasive argument that there was something like a "Golden Age of Phenomenology" at the New School, and that at the base of this accomplishment there was a group of German-Jewish exiles, who had studied with Edmund Husserl and Martin Heidegger." Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2018.09.04 View this Review
- [Global Language Crisis | Summer Report | StoryCorps | Calendar](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/global-language-crisis-summer-report-storycorps-calendar/) - I have mentioned this nonprofit initiative once before. I promise not to do so frequently. But it does strike me as very pertinent to Heidegger's concerns about language and planetary technology. "90% of the world's languages will cease to be spoken in the next 40 years": is that true? If so, it is almost as
- [NDPR J. Adam Carter, Andy Clark, Jesper Kallestrup, S. Orestis Palermos, and Duncan Pritchard (eds.) Extended Epistemology](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/ndpr-j-adam-carter-andy-clark-jesper-kallestrup-s-orestis-palermos-and-duncan-pritchard-eds-extended-epistemology/) - This might be of interest to those involved in the recent AI thread Sent from my iPhone Begin forwarded message: Reply-To: agutting@nd.edu Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2018.12.24 View this Review Online View Other NDPR Reviews J. Adam Carter, Andy Clark, Jesper Kallestrup, S. Orestis Palermos, and Duncan Pritchard (eds.), Extended Epistemology, Oxford University Press,
- [NDPR Daniela Vallega-Neu Heidegger's Poietic Writings: From Contributions to Philosophy to The Event](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/ndpr-daniela-vallega-neu-heideggers-poietic-writings-from-contributions-to-philosophy-to-the-event/) - Begin forwarded message: NDPR Daniela Vallega-Neu Heidegger's Poietic Writings: From Contributions to Philosophy to The Event January 17, 2019 at 9:00:01 PM EST Reply-To: Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2019.01.09 View this Review Online View Other NDPR Reviews Daniela Vallega-Neu, Heidegger's Poietic Writings: From ContributionstoPhilosophy to The Event, Indiana University Press, 2018,
- [NDPR Dominic Smith Exceptional Technologies: A Continental Philosophy of Technology](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/ndpr-dominic-smith-exceptional-technologies-a-continental-philosophy-of-technology/) - Sent from my iPhone Begin forwarded message: Reply-To: agutting@nd.edu Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2019.04.15 View this Review Online View Other NDPR Reviews Dominic Smith, Exceptional Technologies: A Continental Philosophy of Technology, Bloomsbury, 2018, 169pp., $88.00 (hbk), ISBN 9781350015609. Reviewed by Robert C. Scharff, University of New Hampshire Dominic Smith's book starts with a critical
- [Bulletin heideggérien, new issue/nouveau numéro](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/bulletin-heideggerien-new-issue-nouveau-numero/) - Begin forwarded message: Christophe Perrin Chers coll gues, chers amis, Vous trouverez ci-joint les liens pour consulter le dernier num ro duBulletin heidegg rien : https://cdn.uclouvain.be/groups/cms-editors-isp/vhousiaux/BHDG-9-2.pdf https://uclouvain.be/fr/instituts-recherche/isp/cep/actualites/bulletin-heideggerien.html Merci tous ceux qui ont apport leur contribution cette nouvelle parution. Tr s cordialement, * Dear colleagues and friends, There are the links to read the last issue
- [NDPR Martin Heidegger The Question Concerning the Thing: On Kant's Doctrine of the Transcendental Principles](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/ndpr-martin-heidegger-the-question-concerning-the-thing-on-kants-doctrine-of-the-transcendental-principles/) - Begin forwarded message: agutting@nd.edu NDPR Martin Heidegger The Question Concerning the Thing: On Kant's Doctrine of the Transcendental Principles September 11, 2019 at 9:00:04 PM EDT philosophical-reviews-list@nd.edu Reply-To: agutting@nd.edu Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2019.09.09 View this Review Online View Other NDPR Reviews Martin Heidegger, The Question Concerning the Thing: On Kant's Doctrine of the
- [Call for Papers -- Hegel -- Heidegger -- Hölderlin](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/call-for-papers-hegel-heidegger-holderlin/) - Begin forwarded message: Cc: Alfred Denker Reply-To: "holgerzaborowski@icloud.com" Attachments-332/Hegel -- Heidegger -- Ho lderlin Call for Papers04022020.pdf
- [Univ Freiburg: 13th Intnl Conference, Society for Phenomenology and Media](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/univ-freiburg-13th-intnl-conference-society-for-phenomenology-and-media/) - Of possible interest to Heidegger Circle members ... Call for Papers Society for Phenomenology and Media 13th ANNUAL CONFERENCE Furtwangen and Freiburg, Germany Wednesday 16th Saturday 19th of March 2011. The Society for Phenomenology and Media (SPM) is now accepting abstracts (200 400 words) for consideration for its 13th annual international conference to be held
- [GA 50](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/ga-50/) - Written By: Christen and Christopher Yates Perhaps you are all already aware, but Richard's note and bibliography reminded me of the forthcoming publication of GA 50 in translation by Philip Braunstein. IUP press date is, I believe, set for February. Details (thank you, Richard): http://www.iupress.indiana.edu/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=1037_1152_2605&products_id=519655 GA 50. Nietzsches Metaphysik (announced for 1941-42, but not
- [NORTH AMERICAN PHENOMENOLOGY ORGS](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/north-american-phenomenology-orgs/) - Begin forwarded message: Dear Colleague, Once again I'm bothering you at the contact person for your North American phenomenological organization! Two things: (1) Let me remind you again about the ICNAP meeting with the abstract submission deadline of February 28th (link below) and about OPO IV, to which each org that has paid its dues
- [Zollikon Seminars](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/zollikon-seminars/) - Posted on behalf of Allen Scult, who is having some technical difficulties: I'm sure this is a rather elementary question, so I feel very comfortable asking it. What was Heidegger doing at the Zollikon Seminars? Whatever their philosophical content, the seminars do seem like "applied Heidegger." The problem for me here arises from one of
- [Reading Heidegger in New York](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/reading-heidegger-in-new-york/) - NYC Heidegger Circle members: please contact Mr. Wendland if you're interested. --Richard Begin forwarded message: Dear Professor Polt, As a DPhil student of Stephen Mulhall's at the University of Oxford, I'm writing to you this afternoon with a quick question: that is, would you be interested in getting together with a couple of Heidegger scholars
- [The Heidegger Change](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/the-heidegger-change/) - From Catherine Malabou (cmalabou@club-internet.fr): Dear Richard Polt, I have the pleasure to announce the coming out of my book The Heidegger Change in Englsih translation. Would it be possible to circulate this new to the Heidegger Circle ? Thank you so much, Best wishes Catherine http://www.sunypress.edu/p-5289-the-heidegger-change.aspx
- [Publication/Bulletin heideggérien](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/publication-bulletin-heideggerien/) - Sylvain Camilleri and Christophe Perrin have just published the second annual volume of their excellent Bulletin heidegg rien. The two volumes can be downloaded directly here: http://www.paris-sorbonne.fr/IMG/pdf/Bhdg-1-2011.pdfhttp://www.paris-sorbonne.fr/IMG/pdf/Bhdg-2-2012.pdf They include essays in French, very thorough bibliographies of recent literature, book reviews, and indices (in these two issues, indices of Heidegger's references to the Greeks). Richard You
- [New De Anima commentary by Gene Gendlin](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/new-de-anima-commentary-by-gene-gendlin/) - ANNOUNCEMENT: A Line by Line Commentary on Aristotle's De Anima by Gene Gendlin is now available free for downloading at www.focusing.org. You can look up any spots or problems and see if the Commentary seems valuable.
- [a tangent regarding "Verstaendichkeit"](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/a-tangent-regarding-verstaendichkeit/) - I was fascinated by the implications of the two different translations. Although "intelligibility" might have certain metaphysical connotations, it seems to me to suggest a meaning that can be communicated. Bill Richardson indicates the same when he speaks of "intelligible" as making known to oneself and others what a thing is and how it is.
- [call fpr papers--ICNAP](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/call-fpr-papers-icnap/) - Begin forwarded message: Cc: "wertz@fordham.edu" Folks, This is to urge you to consider submitting for next year's meeting of the Interdisciplinary Coalition of North American Phenomenologists (see attachement). We are trying to "walk the walk" and thus not just "talk the talk" on interdisciplinarity within our multidiscipline called phenomenology! Hope to see you there!
- [GA 64 - SEARCHABLE TEXT](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/ga-64-searchable-text/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan Dear friends,Attached is one of the searchable Heidegger texts available on the web site 4search. The site also has searchable texts for the following GA volumes: 4, 7, 8, 13, 18, 26, 33, 47, 62, 65, 66, and 90However, those texts are too large for me to attach to an
- [New Publication: Christophe Perrin (éd.), Qu’appelle-t-on un séminaire? La pédagogie heideggérienne (Zeta Books, 2013)](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/new-publication-christophe-perrin-ed-quappelle-t-on-un-seminaire-la-pedagogie-heideggerienne-zeta-books-2013/) - Begin forwarded message: Marius Dumitru March 12, 2013 9:45:58 PM EDT Richard Polt New Publication: Christophe Perrin ( d.), Qu appelle-t-on un s minaire? La p dagogie heidegg rienne (Zeta Books, 2013) Dear Richard, Could you please be so kind to distribute the following new publication announcement to the Heidegger Circle mailing list,
- [New Publication: Franz-Emmanuel Schürch, Le Savoir en appel. Heidegger et le tournant dans la vérité (Second edition) (Zeta Books, 2013)](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/new-publication-franz-emmanuel-schurch-le-savoir-en-appel-heidegger-et-le-tournant-dans-la-verite-second-edition-zeta-books-2013/) - Franz-Emmanuel Sch rch Le Savoir en appel. Heidegger et le tournant dans la v rit Second edition Availability: Paperback & Electronic (pdf) Publication date: 2013 Size: 15 x 21 cm. Pages: 468 Language: French ISBN: 978-973-1997-32-2 (paperback) ISBN: 978-973-1997-33-9 (ebook) Zeta Books, 2013 http://www.zetabooks.com/new-releases/franz-emmanuel-schuerch-le-savoir-en-appel.html Ce livre propose, partir du constat de difficult s importantes et de paradoxes
- [The Heidegger Concordance, François Jaran & Christophe Perrin](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/the-heidegger-concordance-francois-jaran-christophe-perrin/) - Begin forwarded message: Fran ois Jaran July 11, 2013 10:29:00 AM GMT+01:00 Fran=E7ois=20Jaran Jaran The Heidegger Concordance, Fran ois Jaran & Christophe Perrin [fran ais, English, espa ol] Chers professeurs, coll gues et amis, Ce message pour vous annoncer la parution de The Heidegger Concordance, en trois volumes chez Bloomsbury (Londres/New Delhi/New York/Sydney), pour
- [GA 73, 1: 642.27-28](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/ga-73-1-642-27-28/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan Dear friends, I thought I'd call your attention to an extraordinary text in one of the newly published GA volumes. Best regards, Tom Welt gibt Sein; das Dasein ist das je vereinzelte es , das gibt; das erm glicht und ist das es gibt . -- GA 73, 1: 642
- [GA 73, 1: 642.27-28: Not an extraordinary text at all.](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/ga-73-1-642-27-28-not-an-extraordinary-text-at-all/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan Dear friends, I agree with Richard Capobianco: GA 73, 1: 642.27-28 is not an extraordinary text at all. [BTW: According to Peter Trawney the text is not at all early but rather from the period of Heidegger s later seingeschichtliches Ereignis-Denken. It is found in the handwritten notes entitled Zu
- [GA 94 on Mißverständnis/Seinsverständnis](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/ga-94-on-misverstandnis-seinsverstandnis/) - Written By: Adam Knowles Dear Heidegger Circle, I wonder if the following passage from GA 94 would have any bearing on the recent debates between Profs. Sheehan, Capobianco, et. al. regarding the relationship between Dasein and the meaning of being? This is the full entry #132, berlegungen IV (GA 94, p. 249):
- [Table ronde sur Heidegger, l'antisémitisme et les Cahiers noirs le 22 mai](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/table-ronde-sur-heidegger-lantisemitisme-et-les-cahiers-noirs-le-22-mai/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan Dear friends, For anyone who may have missed the announcement. Tom Attachments-324/Table ronde Heidegger 22 mai 20h .pdf
- [repost conference info](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/repost-conference-info/) - Updated, final conference schedule. Papers will run from approximately 10-5 each day. Heidegger's Black Notebooks: Philosophy, Politics, Anti-Semitism Emory University September 5-6, 2014 Speakers: Peter Trawny (Bergische Universit t Gesamthochschule Wuppertal) Bettina Bergo (Universit de Montr al) Robert Bernasconi (Pennsylvania State University) Martin Gessmann (Hochschule f r Gestaltung, Offenbach am Main) Sander Gilman
- [recordings announcement](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/recordings-announcement/) - Greetings, We are pleased to announce the posting on iTunesU of the recordings from the conference "Heidegger's Black Notebooks: Philosophy, Politics, Anti-Semitism" held at Emory University in September of this year. We are able to share them with any and all who may be interested via the following link: https://itunes.apple.com/us/itunes-u/heideggers-black-notebooks/id918162338 Whether you were able to
- [Preview: Thomas Sheehan's 'Making Sense of Heidegger'](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/preview-thomas-sheehans-making-sense-of-heidegger/) - View this email in your browser Use discount code RLI020 to get 15% off this title on our website! PB 21.95 | 9781783481194 HB 65.00 | 9781783481187 EB 21.95 | 9781783481200 Making Sense of Heidegger A Paradigm Shift By Thomas Sheehan A radically new reading of Heidegger's notoriously difficult oeuvre. Clearly written and rigorously grounded in the whole of Heidegger
- [[Educasup] Parution de Cités 61 : "Les nouveaux barbares"](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/educasup-parution-de-cites-61-les-nouveaux-barbares/) - Written By: Henry Dicks Dear All, I received in my inbox this morning an announcement for a special issue of the French philosophy journal "Cit s" with a dossier on Heidegger featuring articles by E. Faye and others. The articles - see below for more - have such titles as (I'm translating): "Heidegger or
- [Submissions for HC at APA](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/submissions-for-hc-at-apa/) - A reminder: Our program for the next Eastern Division meeting of the American Philosophical Association will also be due pretty soon (at the beginning of June). So at this time I'm also inviting submissions for our satellite session at theAPA. The meeting will take place January 6-9, 2016, in Washington, DC. Please send me submissions
- [GA 70](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/ga-70/) - Written By: Babette Babich Greetings all, does anyone have a PDF of GA70 ... I am momentarily library-less, library-poor...
- [Now online: Volume 31 - 2015 - Heidegger Studies](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/now-online-volume-31-2015-heidegger-studies/) - Begin forwarded message: Heidegger Studies Now online: Volume 31 - 2015 - Heidegger Studies October 21, 2015 at 1:35:04 PM EDT Heidegger Studies - Volume 31 - 2015 Martin Heidegger Da-sein - Sein und Zeit - Ereignis Frank Schalow The "Leaping-Off" Point for Projecting-Open the Question Concerning the Political - Investigating Politics Anew Rosa
- [Thomas Sheehan on 17 Jan,2016](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/thomas-sheehan-on-17-jan2016/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan Hmmm.Dear Richard,1.OK--- T hen what is "the ontological difference in the originary sense"? (I'm unfamiliar with the phrase in German.)2.Yes, Heidegger's phenomenology "proceeds from" (geht von, GA 15: 346.9: Thor, 6 September 1966), but then goes beyond it.The ontological difference is the basis of metaphysics,* not of Heidegger's meta-metaphysical thinking.*
- [WPI's Fortieth Annual Cambridge Conference, June 8-10, 2016](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic/wpis-fortieth-annual-cambridge-conference-june-8-10-2016/) - For Heideggerians interested in boredom, solitude, loneliness, and isolation ... Begin forwarded message: World Phenomenology Institute January 22, 2016 at 9:46:21 AM EST World Phenomenology Institute WPI's Fortieth Annual Cambridge Conference, June 8-10, 2016 WORLD PHENOMENOLOGY INSTITUTE CALL FOR PAPERS THE WORLD PHENOMENOLOGY INSTITUTE'S 2016 CAMBRIDGE CONFERENCE TOPIC: POSTHUMANISM AND PHENOMENOLOGY: THE FOCUS

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- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/17312/) - The next conversation in Vigo will be in a week, July 11. Lee Braver, Alberto Moreiras and I will be discussing the recent translation of the Zurich Seminar (1951). More details here. The conversation will not be recorded, sorry. Pete
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/17299/) - To the Heidegger Circle Membership, Much to my regret, I will not be able to attend this year's meeting in Atlanta. I look forward to next year's gathering and hope to see some of you at SPEP in November. Yours, Bob Scharff
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/17260/) - FYI, you have to log into the website, and then you can find the payment link here: https://heidegger-circle.org/meeting/
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/17253/) - (2/2) Deleuze also addresses calculous in “Difference and Repetition,” although it’s been 25 years since I took a course on that book. The points seems to be, along with my above post on the objects of the various sciences, the object of mathematical inquiry/science too is the object in general and can break down at
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/17252/) - Nietzsche’s posthumous fate has been burdened by two ambiguities: was his thought a forerunner of fascist thinking? And was this thought itself really philosophy or was it an over-violent poetry, made up of capricious aphorisms and pathological fragments? It is perhaps in England that Nietzsche has been most misunderstood. Tomlinson suggests that the major themes
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/17249/) - Andrew, this is nothing but deleuzian madness! Full of idiosyncratic confusions. Don't get lost trying to follow his weird distortions of Heidegger's thought! David kleinberglevin@gmail.com
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/17244/) - I've been trying to think through Derrida's idea that Heidegger's analysis of Death is a Christian one. I started by considering being toward death in ancient thought. As a spectrum, at one extreme on the right we have severe asceticism, which eases out into stoicism and memento mori as we move toward the middle. Then,
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/17242/) - I expanded my thoughts on metaphysics and the object in general in a blog post a little more in depth than I had the room to do here. Here is the link: Rethinking Metaphysics
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/17241/) - Regarding objects, it is clear today philosophers tend to privilege the physical object, the object of inquiry in physics, and so interpret the anthropological object, sociological object, mathematical object, psychological object, geographical object, indeed the object of inquiry in general in this light. By "meta-physics" we thus usually mean the most fundamental physics: quarks, general
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/17237/) - I missed the last meeting of the Heidegger/Derrida group but will watch the replay before the next meeting. I was thinking of how Deleuze notes the tradition of Philosophy following the empiricists misses out on a large part of the continental tradition such as the importance of Nietzsche because they don't raise the question of
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/17232/) - Dear David (if I may) Thank you for your prompt response and for your willingness to share your analysis of Whitman's contribution to understanding the Geviert phenomenon. I would now like to send you the research project that has guided my visits to the United States over the past four summers and will bring me
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/17231/) - Let me add this Postscript: The Gestalt in our time is turned into a Gestell, which we need to transform into a democratic gathering, namely, the Geviert. I argue for this in vol. II of my book, Heidegger’s Phenomenology of Perception, drawing on Whitman's poetry to transform Heidegger's "Fourfold" into a democratic gathering. David Michael
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/17230/) - Dear Stefano: Thank you for calling attention to Walt Whitman and reminding Heidegger scholars of the poet's wisdom regarding our democracy. I very heartily agree with what you said and why it is important to keep the poet's work in mind. I wonder whether you are familiar with my writings on Heidegger. In many of
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/17227/) - I've been trying to think through Derrida's frankly shocking claim in Aporias that Heidegger's analysis of Death in Being and Time presupposes a Christian foundation and is perhaps illumined through the lens of Stoicism's analysis of death. Two of the key passages by Derrida seem to be: “Seneca describes the absolute imminence, the imminence of
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/17225/) - We had another great session of the Being and Time/Derrida discussion group today, especially thanks to our great discussion organizer. What stood out to me: We asked what Heidegger is doing with the question of Being, since this isn't immediately obvious. If Hegel is right and Being is just the most general concept, then it
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/17224/) - Excited to be attending the next meeting on Heidegger and Derrida tomorrow. We will be looking at Derrida's introduction to his translation of Husserl's geometry book. That makes me think of when Heidegger says "in Leibniz's sense, a ratio sufficiens, a sufficient reason, isn't at all a ground capable of supporting a being so that
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/17222/) - We had our first meeting of the Being and Time/Derrida study group today. We briefly looked at the quote from the Sophist that Heidegger prefaces Being and Time with. That passage always reminds me of Heidegger's lecture course on the Sophist where Heidegger zeroes on where Plato called Antisthenes' doctrine "the most laughable (kategolastotata)" because
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/17220/) - Dear Colleagues, Just a reminder that our first meeting on Heidegger's Being and Time and Derrida's works will start on Wednesday, January 28th at 9:30am East Coast Time here in the U.S. Here is the zoom link: https://brandeis.zoom.us/j/95402517706 I thought for this first meeting we can gather as a group and come to some consensus on how
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/17219/) - Thanks, John. Be great to see anything you have written on applying continental philosophy to biblical/theological debates on the historical Jesus and origins of Christianity. We can compare with Derrida's writings and all the early Heidegger on the phenomenology of religious life lectures.
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/17217/) - Hi, I did some re-reading in preparation for this group study so I thought about Heidegger's analysis of Death in Being and Time and read Derrida's Gift of Death, On the Name, and Aporias. I took notes as blog posts and the index page is here if anyone is interested: Click on Jacques Derrida and
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/17213/) - Dear Folks, After several attempts to land a time for our new reading group on Heidegger's Being and Time and Derrida's works, I have finally settled on 9:30am East Coast Time in the U.S. on Wed Jan 28th for our first meeting. Here is the spreadsheet for those still interested in signing up. Heidegger's Being and
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/17194/) - Terrific! I signed up. I think the notion of death and possibility is so important. Out of a causality of freedom we unconsciously legislate a stance toward death as the spectrum between carpe diem on the one pole and memento mori on the other I mentioned above that makes possible operating in the human condition.
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/17193/) - Thanks, John. You are more than welcome to join. Yes Gift of Death, which I wrote on many years ago, is equally fascinating, if you ask me, as Aporias, which got all the attention when it came out. As folks were waiting decades for Derrida to finally comment on death in Heidegger's Being and
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/17192/) - I think Derrida's The Gift of Death is fascinating. Death is such a wonderful topic in Being and Time. Of course, most people live their lives "as though" the next moment won't be denied, though it could be. The most helpful example of Philosophy and Death I can think of is the spectrum of stances
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/17189/) - Any word on when 2025 Gatherings will be released?
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/17180/) - GA 105 is now available. I'm attaching the sample that Klostermann has made available as a PDF. Also attached is my updated bibliography. If you're interested in writing about some of the most recently published texts by Heidegger, please consider submitting to the special issue of Philosophies: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/philosophies/special_issues/HQADB63NN1 Richard
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/17176/) - Dear All, Unfortunately, I had a medical emergency last night and might be in the hospital for a few more days. I am afraid I'll have to cancel this meeting on November 3rd.Will reschedule once I know more about my condition.
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/17171/) - I'm afraid I may not be able to attend. My laptop is not sending out video or audio in applications like Zoom and I don't have the money to fix it right now. I hope everyone enjoys the discussion!
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/17167/) - GA 103 and 104 are now in print. I'm attaching the tables of contents as provided by Klostermann, along with an updated version of my bibliography. By the way, I remind HC members that I'm editing a special journal issue on texts published in the GA in the last dozen years. These most recent volumes
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/17166/) - Should be a fun discussion! Art is such a fascinating topic in Heidegger. In the phusis Essay in Pathmarks Heidegger comments that we say of a painting by van Gogh, '[Now] this is art[!],' or, when we see a bird of prey circling above the forest, 'That is nature' ... We do not say this
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/17165/) - I tried again. Maybe my emails are going to your spam? My email is palpatinesway66@gmail.com
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/17164/) - Hi John, I did not get an email from you, not yet! My email is ehaghver@iu.edu
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/17163/) - I tried emailing you but I don't know if I have the right email?
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/17161/) - Great! I will write the note and send it to HC. I will also share the zoom address and the date/time. Will also copy your part of the message for your intro and will write up something about my interest.
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/17160/) - Okay, sounds like fun. November 3rd works for me, perhaps 6pm EST. If you would like to announce to the HC that we are doing a once monthly Heidegger book study beginning with Off The Beaten Track starting with the section on Origin of the Work of Art and invite whoever might want to join
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/17157/) - Sounds great! Would you like to announce it to the Circle? Also I think you are in a non-EST time zone. What days/times would be good? I can always do early afternoon on M/W EST zone and most evenings our time but I think that would be too late your time. Should we say November
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/17156/) - Zoom would work. In similar discussion groups I have been a part of they usually do 1 section a month, and so in this case The Origin of the Work of Art. That would be the reading for the first month. We could do it as a roundtable where someone presents an overview of the
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/17155/) - Sure! Should we schedule zoom or similar meetings for discussions? Would you be willing to set the reading pace? Also, should we open this to the whole community at this time or later?
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/17154/) - One of Heidegger's anthologies might be good because they come in chunks and so are ready made for discussions. How about Off the Beaten Track
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/17153/) - Thanks very much for your message. I started by reading Being and Time and that took me to Brentano's work on Aristotle (Senses of being) and that took me to Aristotle that I have started reading. I would very much like to read Heidegger on Greeks as well. Do you have any suggestions as what
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/17152/) - Hi, Sure, a reading group would be fun. Maybe others will join. My main interest in Heidegger is his engagement with the history of philosophy, especially Kant and the Greeks. I sort of build on Will McNeil's insight, which is my guiding principle for the way I read Heidegger, that for Sophocles Deinon is the
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/17151/) - Dear John, My name is Esfan Haghverdi and a while back I sent out a message to the Circle to see if there were any members interested in forming reading groups. It is so exciting to read that you still love reading Heidegger. I have been trying to read him and I have done
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/17150/) - I first took interest in Heidegger's reading of Beauty in Plato when I read his big Nietzsche book for my MA thesis on Heidegger and the Greeks. I can't believe that was back in 2002. My career as an elementary school teacher took me in a different direction, but I still love reading Heidegger! Here
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/17147/) - On the topic of German Idealism, this might be of interest: My Sorbonne Talk on Heidegger and Kant: Causality
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/17146/) - ps I have a couple of mini blog projects this year on Heidegger on my blog which might be interesting: (A) How Johann Christian Friedrich Hölderlin Helped Us Rethink Ancient Thought [Index] (B) Blogging through Professor Martin Heidegger's Interpretations of Greek Philosophy I hope everyone has a great school year!
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/17145/) - Good day, Andrew! I like your poem. It's engaging, insightful, and sharply critical. Keep going! With best wishes, David Kleinberg-Levin.
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/17136/) - Thank you, Aaron. May I add that I knew Manfred Frings, the editor of both GA 54 and 55, and he was a lovely, generous, wonderful man. I paid tribute to him in my "Heidegger's Way of Being," where I discuss in depth GA 55 on Heraclitus. I also have discussions of key lines from
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/17071/) - Here is the direct link to book your room with the group rate: https://www.marriott.com/event-reservations/reservation-link.mi?id=1722017928156&key=GRP&app=resvlink
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/17007/) - This is great news, Kate -- congratulations. I had the pleasure of rereading your book over the past few weeks -- it is truly a wonderful text! I urge anybody who hasn't read it yet to pick it up! All the best, Shane.
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/16992/) - That sounds really cool! If anyone is interested, I have a blog index of my posts On Heidegger's interpretation of Hölderlin from the lecture courses and the Elucidations book HERE. My favorite one is where I try a secular reading of Heidegger's Elucidations book HERE.
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/16981/) - Just as a postscript, Richard, and for others who may wish to pursue these matters. You mention GA 55 on Heraclitus, and I have been addressing this particular volume for over 15 years (well before there was any published English translation). Chapters 5 and 6 of my Heidegger’s Way of Being (2014) are devoted entirely
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/16980/) - Thank you, Richard, always good to discuss these issues with you. We’ve been around this block before, and you may recall that I think that his readings of Heraclitus (and Parmenides and Anaximander) are also unfoldings of his own position. Alas, the upcoming conference will not provide us an opportunity to discuss all these important
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/16979/) - Thanks for your paper, Richard C. One source you cite is GA 55: 379, in the wonderful volume on Heraclitus. A question I have is how we should decide whether what he says there about Logos and legein is just a sympathetic interpretation of Heraclitus, or whether it is a statement of his own view.
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/16977/) - Richard, thank you for this announcement. I just want to reply to note how impressed I am with this series. George Pattison's very, very good short book on Kierkegaard and Heidegger was recently published in it as well, if anyone is interested in that book too. Great work that ya'll are doing. All the best,
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/16931/) - Thank you again Richard for this very welcome news Marco
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/16929/) - Hi Marco, I am not aware of translations underway for GA 76, 83, 90, 91, or 98. Julia Assaiante and Shane Ewegen are working on GA 99. I have posted a light revision of my bibliography here: https://www.academia.edu/111658023/Bibliography_of_Martin_Heideggers_Writings Richard
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/16928/) - Thanks for this news, Richard. Pete of beyng.com still lists volumes 76 "Leitgedanken zur Entstehung der Metaphysik, der neuzeitlichen Wissenschaft und der modernen Technik", 83 "Seminare: Platon - Aristoteles - Augustinus" and 99 "Vier Hefte I - Der Feldweg und Vier Hefte II - Durch Ereignis zu Ding und Welt (Schwarze Hefte 1947–1950)" as volumes
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/16927/) - I've expanded my post series a little to include Heidegger's reading of Parmenides and Heraclitus - along with Anaximander as the thinkers who thought beings in their unity. Here is my index. I put a link to each new post here as I finish them. Parmenides and Anaximander are done and I'm about a quarter
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/16926/) - I've found Aufenthalte (1962) in GA 75. Wondering if there is anything additional, translations?
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/16883/) - Yes, translations of several volumes are in the works. You can check my bibliography here: https://www.academia.edu/111658023/Bibliography_of_Martin_Heideggers_Writings Richard
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/16773/) - This may be of interest. I just did a couple blog posts on Heidegger's use of Hegel's methodology: Heidegger’s Hegelian Phenomenological Method (Part 1/2) by John MacDonald Heidegger’s Hegelian Phenomenological Method (Part 2/2) by John MacDonald Please read and comment on the blog if you can and share if you know someone interested in
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/16725/) - I now have it, thanks so much! Laurence
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/16689/) - Dear all, This is a reminder note for the upcoming CFP deadline on September 30th, for the West-Coast Heidegger Workshop. The workshop will take place in January 2024. We are aiming for a workshop with a small number of pre-distributed papers, with substantial discussion time for each paper. Please see the attached flyer for guidelines.
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/16639/) - WJR
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/16523/) - Casey, Do you still need this? Attached is GA 9. Bob Scharff
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/16368/) - The latest edition of Gatherings, which includes David Kleinberg-Levin's Insight into Being: Ontological Responsibility in Heidegger’s “Einkehr in das Ereignis” is obtainable on the heidegger-circle.org website under Journal --> PDF Copies.
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/16367/) - Greetings! I still do not have any copies of my essay, not even one for myself; but my 3 most recent books on Heidegger are all available on Amazon. Best wishes, David.
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/16366/) - Dear Dr. Kleinberg-Levin, I would love to read your paper on Ereignis, but cannot find it in the proceedings. Please send me a copy. My understanding of the term is based on a few years of study with Theodore Kisiel and a document composed on it by one of his students. But this was almost
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/16357/) - I would like to post the following exchange with David Kleinberg-Levin regarding his latest post to the forum: Thank you for these thoughts, David. Can you expand a bit on the affective dimension of this ontological experience? How is it that we are brought to feel a responsibility for being? Why does it matter to
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/16356/) - I, David Kleinberg-Levin, would like to add to my reply to the final thought in the discussion of Keynes and the Stockbroker: I suggest that the "work on ourselves" is an Er-eignung, a process of "enowning" our ontological responsibility, hence the "Einkehr in das Ereignis" is a Heimkehr, a reflective, meditative return to ourselves from
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/16355/) - I suspect that your invocation of "Ereignis" perpetuates the ontotheological reading of Heidegger's thought. All that interpretation seemingly at work in your thought does, in effect, is leave us with a mystery that enjoins a certain fatalism. Would it not perhaps be helpful to consider the interpretation that, in quite some detail, I have proposed
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/16351/) - Thank you for bringing Adam's translation to our attention, Richard. I bought my copy this morning. And thanks for the bibliography as well.
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/16349/) - I hate to spam the list, but I noticed that several items in my bibliography needed to be updated (translations needed publication dates), so I am attaching a fresh version of the document. Any other corrections and additions are welcome. Richard
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/16333/) - Thank you, Anna. I think "rejection" is better than my "refusal" as a translation of Ablehnung. I believe Heidegger gradually comes to identify the word "philosophy" with the first, Greek inception. (I prefer "inception" for Anfang, leaving "beginning" for Beginn.) Then "thinking" is a word for "the other inception," which of course is not simply a rejection of
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/16332/) - Dear Professor Polt, Thank you, this is an interesting quote. This comes immediately after the Contributions, and the appearance of the word Ablehnung is especially provocative. I wonder how we might read it in light of the following from GA 65: Every rejection (Ablehnung) of philosophical bustle possesses its necessity (in the genuine sense of
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/16331/) - That’s an interesting question, Anna, thank you. After a little poking around in my PDFs, searching for likely phrases, I ran across this passage in GA 95 Überlegungen VII-XI, p. 172. It doesn't set up an antithesis between Denken and Philosophie, but I think it's moving in that direction. This is from 1938 or 1939. Die wirkliche
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/16285/) - Thanks, Eric. For those interested, the e-book is available for $3.95 from Google Play. https://www.gegensatzpress.com/gp-59.html
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/16260/) - Thank you :)
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/16259/) - Thank you, Richard, and, yes, I’d be very pleased were you to use my diagrams in your course!
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/16257/) - This may also be of interest from GA26.
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/16254/) - Thank you, Joel. I think these images work very nicely! I’m glad some of my own words have been helpful, too. May I use your diagrams to introduce some points about Heidegger in my current course on the philosophy of time? For those who aren’t familiar with my book, I’ll attach a simpler visual aid
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/16217/) - Wow. You can always count on Richard for a scholarly and lucid response (either short-winded or long). Jeff Bricker
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/16216/) - Thank you, Richard, it certainly does look very interesting Best Mo
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/16215/) - Hello Mo, Here’s a longwinded, but possibly interesting answer to your question, extracted from my book Time and Trauma, pgs. 127-29. As far as I know, the main public use that Heidegger made of the [Black] notebooks during his lifetime was to select certain sayings and publish them under the title Aus der Erfahrung
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/16214/) - Many thanks, Anna, much appreciated Regards Mo
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/16213/) - Dear Mo, That line is from “Aus der Erfahrung des Denkens” (contained in GA 13, with an awful English-language translation contained in the volume “Poetry, Language, Thought”). But the line reads “must make,” not “often makes” : ). Best, Anna Sayers
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/13177/) - Written By: Wayne, OK. I'll try one more, this time by being deliberately (but not argumentatively) picky about the following three sentences. You say: ...[M]etaphysics remains a permanent temptation for philosophical thought. This means [1] the only "positive" implication of metaphysics for the later Heidegger is insofar as we are able to outlive and
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/6406/) - Written By: Glazebrook, Patricia Thanks, Tom. I disagree with the technological nihilism/determinism critique, but think it has obscured possibilities of other critiques, and would love to hear you make them! Dr. P. (Trish) Glazebrook Chair, Department of Philosophy and Religion Studies University of North Texas Mailing address: 1155 Union Circle #310920 Denton, TX, USA
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/7878/) - Written By: David Kleinberg-Levin Dear Colleagues:Permit me to offer a thought regarding the question "whether this Geschehen is constantly or "always already" "happening," or whether it happens at particular moments," to which Richard Polt responds, saying: "To me, the former alternative does not make much sense, because if the "sending" or "giving" of being were constant,
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/7880/) - Written By: David Kleinberg-Levin Richard Polt asks three distinct questions, each one very challenging and provocative: [1] Is there potentially a "right way" to interpret being? [2] Are, or might, some of the receptions "truer" than others? and [3] Is my proposed interpretation, recognising a way, or sense, in which we may talk of
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/7881/) - Written By: Lawrence Berger Any thoughts on the relation between Ereignis and the holy? There is a connection in Van Buren's (1994, 298-99) work on the early Heidegger. How would this affect the discussion?
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/7884/) - Written By: David Kleinberg-Levin Lawrence: To clarify my earlier responses to your question, invoking "attentiveness," which, as Malebranche said, is a form of prayer, I concur with Richard Polt's point that "a richer understanding of being would leave room for the holy instead of reducing it to other modes (or a single mode) of
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/7885/) - Written By: Lawrence Berger Thank you David, and attentiveness seems to complicate (or enrich) the discussion, because on the one hand it seems to me to be the essence of Richard's "Qualitatively better unconcealment," and on the other hand for Heidegger in GA 71, “Heedfulness [Aufmerksamkeit]—as inceptual thinking, which arises out of experience of the history
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/7886/) - Written By: David Kleinberg-Levin Lawrence: I would suggest that "Aufmerksamkeit" requires practice it is a practice. And as such, it is the openness of, or in, "mindfulness," "Besinnung," a being-present to things in an attunement of mind as free as possible of distracting influences. That is what enables a "richer understanding" to emerge in
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/6320/) - Written By: Christopher Ruth Also the seminar notes to On Time and Being.
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/6321/) - Written By: Theodore Kisiel GA65 251 speaks of "leaping over [ueberspringen] this distinction [the ontological difference]. But this leaping-over only happens ... through the leap into the properizing event of Da-sein." Ted >>> Christopher Ruth 12/28/2012 8:39 PM >>> Also the seminar notes to On Time and Being.
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/6322/) - Written By: Bricker, Jeffrey Professor Sheehan, Perhaps this is what you are looking for? In Vier Seminare on page 104 we find: “We will not succeed in thinking Appropriation (Ereignis) with the concepts of being and the history of being;…Together with being, the ontological difference also disappears. By way of anticipation we would have
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/6323/) - Written By: Dear Tom,The most important discussion I know of occurs as early as 1930, at the end of the 1929-30 course "The Fundamental Concepts of Metaphysics," where Heidegger explicitly states that ontology, as grounded on the ontological difference, must collapse, as soon as we question the ontological difference as difference. (The difference first
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/6727/) - Written By: Babette Babich Thank you Richard.
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/8246/) - Written By: David Kleinberg-Levin To me, the wonderfullly lucid passage that Reg is quoting here cannot be reconciled with Tom's interpretation---although it does say, or suggest, that Dasein is itself also a certain clearing and opening, a site of disclosedness, but a site of disclosedness taking place within the Lichtung that, in the contingency
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/8247/) - Written By: David Kleinberg-Levin Yet another passage from Der Ursprung des Kunstwerkes, one I often call to mind, nicely supplements the lucid passages to which Reg called our attention: Die in Sein und Zeit gedachte Entschlossenheit ist nicht die decidierte Aktion eines Subjekts, sondern die Er ffnung des Daseins aus der Befangenheit im Seienden
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/8472/) - Written By: gordonhasmail "we would fall into a mistake if we supposed the being of entities meant only and for all time: the presencing of presences." What he is saying is that which in Kant were called categories, transcendental conditions for all possible experience, could change. To give us a way to that we
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/8473/) - Written By: gordonhasmail ....What is a rat for Americans? He's a rat (an informer), what is a rat for the Chinese, some idiom is then inserted here, and it comes clear: it is someone who is clever. Things like that.
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/8475/) - Written By: Lawrence Berger Jeff, wouldn't Being = Presencing be a better way of stating Heidegger's position on the matter, so as to distinguish it from the substance ontology? Larry Berger
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/8476/) - Written By: gordonhasmail "The question of how conceptions arise historically with peoples." I think Heidegger would dismiss this as mere "intellectual history". No. There is no 'mere intellectual history' in Heidegger. There are mere historians of intellectual history, but that means they have no talent for philosophy. Are not great. We think that because
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/8477/) - Written By: gordonhasmail Being = Presencing Then prescencing would say something like experience and being, or thinking and being. The are being enacted. What does the equal sign mean? Identity? It is wrong if being says the ontological, since what is present is the ontic. A chair is a being for example, but an
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/8478/) - Written By: ERIC J SANDBERG
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/8481/) - Written By: gordonhasmail "I disagree that "we are the history of Western metaphysics"." Fine, but that is Heidegger's contention. Just look at the book on Aristotle, it starts, 'faith in history' https://books.google.com/books?id=lUCKM_o1FRIC&printsec=frontcover&dq=aristotle+heidegger&hl=en&sa=X&ei=b_HTVIjmIMqrogSM0YGgCQ&ved=0CB4Q6wEwAA#v=onepage&q=history&f=false Of course, I know all the things you touch on already. My aim here is to explicate, or to think Heidegger. You should consider that
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/8482/) - Written By: gordonhasmail I haven't read this myself but it looks like a competently written possible introduction to Historicist thought with respect to Heidegger, which means nothing like what your comments about Strauss suggests that you now think it does: http://www.jstor.org/stable/2106819?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/10043/) - Written By: David Kleinberg-Levin Yes, Alberto, all the crucial concepts in political theory & political praxis ("subject," "community," "people," "sovereignty," "will formation," "freedom," rights," etc.), including the very distinction between theory and praxis, and the very distinction between the politics and life, need radical rethinking. Drawing inspiration from Nietzsche, Derrida and Foucault began that
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/10045/) - Written By: David Kleinberg-Levin Well, Alberto, you may well be right that there can be no politics, or no political philosophy, within the "climate" of Heidegger's thought. I have not made up my mind on that point. So far, though, I do not see why there couldn't be such. Although it might well not
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/10047/) - Written By: David Kleinberg-Levin To David Leech: I like your project, challenging though it be. Fascinating possibilities! DKL.
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/10050/) - Written By: Gregory Fried My well-wishes, too, to David Leech! Alberto does indeed make good points; however, as David K-L asked about Dugin, I will say that I have read chunks of him, and while he is he sounds crazy to a Westerner, he is crazy like a fox, and his use of Heidegger
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/10052/) - Written By: Gregory Fried Thanks, Alberto! Well put. This is a long and large discussion, and I will be abbreviated as well: I do think that phron sis requires some ideation of the good, in the old-fashioned Platonic or at least Aristotelian sense. I argue this in "Retrieving phron sis," and so while it may
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/10054/) - Written By: Michael M Hi everyone, Since Dugin was mentioned: I've translated Dugin and recently interviewed him about his interpretation of Heidegger (here it is, in case someone has not read it: https://www.academia.edu/17674206/Alexander_Dugin_on_Martin_Heidegger). At the University of Toronto Political Theory Workshop this Friday, I'm presenting a short overview of the basic questions motivating my
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/10357/) - Written By: Arkadi Choufrine Dear Bob-- Of course, phenomenologically I do not find any "I" (neither did even Husserl, btw). But this is part of the question: what phenomenological grounds to I have, then, to call anything "mine" (or, for that matter, to employ, with Hd, the concept of the "self")? ~Arkadi
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/10358/) - Written By: Dear Arkadi, The quick answer is because Jemeinigkeit, as a phenomenon, appears in experience in a way that traditional conceptions of ego/subject/self distort, suppress, or selectively stylize. Moreover, as a phenomenon, it is not genuinely disclosed under most everyday circumstances because when "one" thinks about such things, the tendency is to
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/10359/) - Written By: Arkadi Choufrine I've just come across Levinas struggling with the same question. He unpacks Jemeinigkeit as the phenomenon of "impossibility to decline..." https://books.google.com/books?id=MchtPJeRQGAC&pg=PA92&lpg=PA92&dq=Jemeinigkeit&source=bl&ots=Tx8TdF9aFk&sig=3oACo9vCm5sUSJsyqFtQayWqqns&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiy4aqCoYXMAhXIcBoKHcYJBGoQ6AEINDAE#v=onepage&q=Jemeinigkeit&f=false I take this as referring to, say, the impossibility of "shaking off" a current mood. On this reading, "mineness" turns out to be an interpretation of an experienced constraint,
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/10364/) - Written By: Arkadi Choufrine "Jemeinigkeit seems to correspond to a ontological determination of Dasein's being that others might call/have called 'singularity.'"---I like it! But this makes only more pertinent for me the question of possible phenomenological grounds for this determination. Note that in SZ 116, Hd speaks of "die ontische Selbstverst ndlichkeit, da das
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/11057/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan Dear Bob, I agree entirely. There's no subjectivism, no subject-object-ism, in either the earlier or later Heidegger. 1. Heidegger's Da-sein is an e-ject, not a sub-ject. 2. The things we encounter get their Sein/Sinn not within a noetic-noematic correlation la Husserl (as Sommer points out) but from the meaning-giving clearing
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/11197/) - Written By: adm\gfried Thank you, Tom! I largely agree with you, but in your response, you quote me and then disagree: [GF:] 3. But there still is "being" in the Jurassic to the extent that animals interpret their world in this hemmed-in way. It is still a revealed world to them, and in that
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/11198/) - Written By: Christopher Ruth Pete, I think the question is particularly tricky since we can't say that Sein/Seyn "is," so we are really trying to think "Is (was) there Seyn in the Jurassic period?" When we think the Jurassic period, it is opened to us, perhaps dimly, by Seyn. If we went back we
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/11683/) - Written By: Seibert, Charles (seiberch) Friends, The quoted phrase (Trump IS the law) also sounds like: Der Fuehrer selbst und alien ist die heutige und kuenftige deutsche Wirklichkeit und ihr Gesetz. See G. Schneeberger, Nachlese zu Heidegger: Dokumente zu seinem Leben und Denken (Bern, 1962), item 114, "Deutsche Studenten," page 136. Peace,
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/11684/) - Written By: Ione FERREIRA / Ione MANZALI Trump is the leader, says reality. Congratulations to America for the great president! The world has been a safer, more stable and more prosperous place ever since his election. Thank you so much!
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/11685/) - Written By: antoniouk Yes, indeed, Charles (if I may)...it also echoes Carl Schmitt's infamous statement: "Der F hrer ist nicht Staatsorgan, sondern oberster Gerichtsherr der Nation und h chster Gesetzgeber...", in Bernd R thers, Entartetes Recht (DTV Wissenschaft, 1994), p. 109. All good wishes, Antonio 2017-12-06 14:05 GMT+00:00 Seibert, Charles (seiberch) : Friends, The
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/7494/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan Dear Larry, A spot-on text. I interpret it this way (very roughly): 1.Before homo sapiens: stuff-out-there. 2.After homo sapiens: that same stuff-out-there is now present in Dasein's world as this-or-that or as useful-this-way-or-that. Which is to say, it appears as bedeutsam, due to Dasein's world as Bedeutsamkeit. . . ,that
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/7496/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan Dear Larry, Agreed. And nicely put. Tom
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/7497/) - Written By: Henry Dicks Dear Tom, I disagree when you say "before homo sapiens: stuff out there". Out where? In the world? But the world is Dasein-dependent. And what does "stuff" mean? (I note, incidentally, that "stuff" comes from the Old French estoffer, meaning "to equip or stock" - sounds like Bestand or Rustung
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/7498/) - Written By: Babette Babich Dear Henry, Very nice points! BB Babette Babich Professor of Philosophy Fordham University, The Jesuit University of New York Executive Editor: New Nietzsche Studies Web Page: http://faculty.fordham.edu/babich/ The Hallelujah Effect: Philosophical Reflections on Music, Performance Practice, and Technology(Surrey: Ashgate, 2013) Professor Babette Babich Department of Philosophy Fordham University 113 West
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/7499/) - Written By: ERIC J SANDBERG Henry: A couple of things, if only to muck up your wonderfully succinct reply. Secondly, there can't be 'materialism' without 'idealism.' So it's just stuff. Firstly, however, I'm wondering if you aren't really onto something. Let me try to explain in terms of the what/that distinction. Early Heidegger (B&T)
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/7500/) - Written By: Henry Dicks Hi Eric, A quick response to your thought-provoking what/how/that distinctions (I think they're pretty clear -- but tell me if I've misunderstood). I would say that Being qua physis/autopoiesis encompasses all three. 1.The "what" (i.e., the essence) of physei-beings or ta physei onta is their autopoiesis. It's what makes them
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/7501/) - Written By: antoniouk Dear Henry (if I may), many thanks for your very interesting email. I'd like to ask you a question about the concept of autopoieis: You wrote: "Living beings do that, for they bring themselves forth (autopoiesis)". I am not sure that only "living beings" have the capacity to "stand out", to
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/7502/) - Written By: ERIC J SANDBERG Henry: We don't necessarily disagree. How about this? First, in the Beitrage, Heidegger takes the 'clearing' back from Dasein who is --in the Beitrage -- now appropriated to the opening as witness. Heidegger even re-appropriates the name from Da-sein as Da-sein. (Note the Italics). Secondly, if you read back from
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/7503/) - Written By: ERIC J SANDBERG Antonio: You raise some interesting questions here. First let me say that at least for the Greeks -- according to Heidegger -- phusis meant all being, not just what is live. Nothing stands out for Heidegger more than A Greek temple. But it's with your assertion about language that
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/7504/) - Written By: Henry Dicks Dear Antonio, Many thanks for this interesting question. Autopoiesis has two features, which, at least in the case of living beings, can be expressed in the language of the biologist, Stuart Kauffman. The first is "autocatalysis" (A produces B, B produces A). The second is "closure" (rather than spiralling out
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/7505/) - Written By: Henry Dicks I'd have to think some more about the concept of Dasein as "witness" to Being's self-presencing, as well as about your take on the temporal unfolding of Heidegger's thought, but I think your understanding of the "who" works well. What I mean is that the self of autopoietic beings is
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/7506/) - Written By: ERIC J SANDBERG Henry: I don't know? I'm in need of some enlightenment here. First, it's more than questionable whether self and Dasein are equitable. Self, I think, in Heidegger is a historical construct that hangs on Dasein, which is a primordial relation to Being. And Heidegger is wary of the word
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/7507/) - Written By: antoniouk Dear Eric and Henry, many thanks for your very interesting and detailed emails. I am not sure I am able to reply to your thought-provoking yet difficult questions. Let me try. From the beginning: Tom Sheehan wrote: "before homo sapiens: stuff out there". This expression was criticized by Henry in a
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/7508/) - Written By: Henry Dicks Dear Antonio, You say: "If everything which manifests itself is dependent onDasein, then the question is: What is there beforeDasein? What about Being beforeDasein?" I would say that the advantage of seeing manifestation as Dasein-depenent is that it obviates the need to try and answer the question, "What was there
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/7509/) - Written By: antoniouk Dear Henry, many thanks for your insightful email. Please, do not get me wrong. I have a great respect for your approach which I find most interesting. I have only one concern here. You wrote: "the language of scientific description suffices". Are we truly sure about this? I mean, it seems
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/9373/) - Written By: Arkadi Choufrine Well...beschw ren does have the meanings "invoke," "evoke," "summon" and the like, doesn't it? I am not sure Ted meant that these meaning are less appropriate in this context. If he did, I would appreciate, Ted, if you could spell out why you think they are. Thanks. ~Arkadi On Wednesday,
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/9374/) - Written By: Christopher Ruth How do you get to the document cache on the home page? I went there and didn't see it. Is Prof Kisiel's recent thing on formal indication in there? I thought I'd downloaded it but find that it didn't work.
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/9375/) - Written By: Theodore Kisiel Dear Arkadi, Allen et al., Oddly, beschwoeren does suggest an odd kind of 'evoke' that approaches 'exorcise' and, more generically, 'call out', for example of course, Dasein, which is also what the formally indicative concepts do. But dislodging Dasein ( dem Dasein einen Ruck geben) calls for that extra step of action, which in SZ, in response to
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/10140/) - Written By: Arkadi Choufrine Dear Richard--- If there is no "autonomous or self-transparent subject" (which I, also, believe to be Hd's view), then up to whom could any "choice" possibly be? I.e., who could possibly be responsible for any "choice"? Remember, we're talking not of any old choice (made, say, by sub- or
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/10142/) - Written By: Arkadi Choufrine Dear Richard-- Hd explicates in detail what he understands by "guilt" here; i.e., not being one's own "ground" etc. The capacity to make choice is not in--and I fail to see how it could possibly fit into--this picture. In my view, it is clearly not the case that there be,
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/10143/) - Written By: B. Rousse My intuition is that for early Heidegger, any irreducibly cloudy choice (that is, a choice already preshaped by aspects of Dasein's way of being like its attunement, understanding, and discourse) could be "morally relevant." Morality in this context shouldn't be thought of some property discovered by philosophers to be attached
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/10144/) - Written By: Arkadi Choufrine Dear B.--- "Morality ...is a feature of our social practices...; the practice of holding each other morally responsible is a given, thrown dimension of our everyday ways of relating to each other and being in the world...; Dasein is a being thrown into a normative space...." Part of me agrees
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/10146/) - Written By: B. Rousse Dear Larry, thanks for sharing this lucid text. I find it thoroughly illuminating and convincing. Though, does it still dodge the question of whether or not Heidegger "leaves us in the lurch" about, e.g,. what criteria or normative perspctive we can appeal to when actively appropriating our cultural heritage? I
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/10147/) - Written By: Arkadi Choufrine Dear B.--- The passage you cite (SZ 268) mentions "choice" in the following context: "The "they" even hides the manner in which it has tacitly relieved Dasein of the burden of explicitly choosing these possibilities. It remains indefinite who has 'really' done the choosing. So Dasein make no choices, gets
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/10149/) - Written By: David Kleinberg-Levin Well said, Larry! As regards the question that Rousse thinks remains, namely, whether Heidegger nevertheless "leaves us in the lurch," I would like to venture the thought that he leaves us precisely where he should leave us, namely, in a place where we are, in colloquial terms, "on the spot."
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/10152/) - Written By: Richard Hearn, MD Richard: I was once a universalist, but, no more. There is no doubt that it was Heidegger that pulled me over to the dark side. I write to respectfully dispute your contention that, we are "universalist" because "there are some practices that, when push comes to shove, we
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/10153/) - Written By: Arkadi Choufrine Dear Richard-- Your statement "Such taking-over is more fundamental than, but certainly does not rule out, the more superficial and specific choices" seems to imply that "taking over being-a-ground" is, in your view, a particular case of choice. Did I get you right? If so, would you mind explaining between
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/10155/) - Written By: Arkadi Choufrine Dear Richard-- Thanks a lot. Now, and upon reading your response to Rick, I think to have gotten your point. I would restate it thus: even if (supposing, for the sake of the argument) Dasein were existentiALLy "sick" with an extreme and incurable weakness of the will, the phenomenal truth
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/10156/) - Written By: Richard Hearn, MD Thanks for your response, but, I'm afraid that you may have misunderstood my point. When I move from the courts where justice is the issue absolutely to the hospital where health is the issue absolutely, I do not suddenly understand slavery to be right as a relativist might. The
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/10157/) - Written By: Gregory Fried This is a wonderful thread. Thank you all. I agree with Richard Polt and Larry Hatab. Larry puts it very succinctly that "authenticity represents a tension between individuation and socialization" and a "situated openness." Design's "guilt" is to be thrown into an unchosen hermeneutic situatedness, and therefore into the finite horizon of possibilities illumined by
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/10159/) - Written By: Arkadi Choufrine Dear Larry-- Slow as I am, I failed to find in Greg's response, after re-reading it several times, an answer to the question "how one could critique something like fascist "justice" unless one could posit something beyond any given situated conception of justice." If you meant that it is there, I
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/10161/) - Written By: Gregory Fried Excellent, Larry! Thank you. You are right to ask about the is of the transcendent: "How is that thereis a transcendent justice exceeding our finite condition? In my view (and again, I can t claim original credit for this view), it is one of the great distortions of the history of
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/10164/) - Written By: Richard Hearn, MD Arkadi, Larry, Greg and Richard I find this thread touches on what first attracted me to Heidegger’s philosophy and keeps me returning for more. But, the “tension” I find in Heidegger is not between “individuation and socialization” as described by Larry, but, a tension between being at home
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/10340/) - Written By: Michael Molinaro I was asked to connect as well. Someone hacked a list.
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/10900/) - Written By: Gregory Fried Richard, Not joking at all --- and the political reference is unintended but perhaps no less the significant for that. I neglected to copy the Circle before. For an arrow to "fly true" or for a blow to "land true" (violent images, perhaps, but nonetheless part of our language) is
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/10902/) - Written By: Gregory Fried Reg and Richard, Perhaps what unites these senses of shining forth and standing true (as well-fited to some nature or purpose) is that for something to shine forth as well fit, it needs to be revealed meaningfully in a specific intentional context for Dasein in Tom's sense of al theia-2. This
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/10908/) - Written By: Isn't part of Heidegger's project to rethink such notions as true and real and meaningful in a way that leaves them open to multiple disclosures whose difference aren't determined and ranked in advance by any Master Notion? For what it's worth, I think I've met some true scoundrels and have a few
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/10909/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan Dear Bob, Right: no antecedent "Master Notion" (whatever that would be). However, what about simply (1) sorting out what Heidegger meant by "die Sache selbst" in all those GA volumes, and then (2) critiquing it? None of us thinks that "anything goes" in professional Heidegger research or that, la Humpty
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/11111/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan Thanks, James, and sorry for the mix-up. I too would not want Richard to be put on the spot or pushed into answering any questions. But I would be delighted if he would weigh in. All the best, Tom
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/13001/) - Written By: William Britt Hi David, Heidegger says something extremely close to that in the last lines of the Letter on Humanism. It seems like he probably repeats it somewhere in On the Way to Language, but I can't remember where just now. Peace,Will
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/13002/) - Written By: Dear David, From Unterwegs zur Sprache, "The Nature of Language" (Hertz translation, p. 70): "Thinking is not a means to gain knowledge. Thinking cuts furrows into the soil of Being." What a great image! Richard Colledge. On Wednesday, 8 May 2019 07:20:53 UTC+10, david.leech wrote:Hi all, If this is Heidegger's can someone
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/5286/) - Written By: Richard Polt The banquet fee is $50. I expect your plan would be fine, but you should check with the convenors. Write to Tim Hyde, timothy.hyde@stonybrook.edu. Richard
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/5287/) - Written By: Christopher Ruth Yes, I am signed in to Google and I still can't get onto the forum page. ________________________________________
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/5906/) - Written By: David Kleinberg-Levin I think Reg's qualms have merit. I think he is on to something important here. I am reminded of Nietzsche's critical discussion of the metaphysics behind the cause-effect doctrine. In saying that the giving of unconcealment cannot itself be unconcealed, are we not perhaps slipping into that old, dualistic metaphysical
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/5908/) - Written By: David Kleinberg-Levin The point I just made fits nicely with what Larry has just said. Our thinking seems to be virtually simultaneous in its agreement!Nicely elaborated, Larry! David Kleinberg-Levin.
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/5909/) - Written By: Christopher Ruth I think Lawrence Hatab is correct. We cannot form a syllogism with Ereignis as a term because Ereignis is not a noun or a term that has "sense" in that way. We can only indicate it, but as soon as we do so we split it into something that formally
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/5911/) - Written By: Paul Anthony Gentlemen, If you would allow me: Professor Sheehan's request for comments and the ensuing discussion awakened, as you would expect, more questions than answers: If Heidegger's language in Beitrage goes beyond metaphysics as well as fundamental ontology, how would one decide what Heidegger is attempting to
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/5912/) - Written By: Christopher Ruth "Maybe Heidegger's Ereignis-formulas stand in relation to what they're talking about much as our formula "@#%$!*!" stands in relation to our running into a brick wall." Killer! I think one way to look at it would be that the epochal meaning of being is the first premise of every statement
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/5913/) - Written By: David Kleinberg-Levin The Nietzsche text that I think has some relevance for thinking through the question that Tom Sheehan has broached, and which I briefly discussed in my earlier intervention, appears at 531 on p. 288 of The Will to Power: "If I say 'lighning flashes', I have posited the flash once
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/6510/) - Written By: Bricker, Jeffrey Dear Forum Members, In his latest posting Professor Sheehan has done an impressive job of distilling his proposed paradigm shift down to two potent shots. He’d be doing us light-weights a great service if he’d take a moment to do, once again, what he’s probably done elsewhere many times: namely,
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/6511/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan Dear Jeff, As regards your first point, I should leave it to the practitioners of the current paradigm to articulate the two or three points that summarize it. I think that Richard Capobianco’s Engaging Heidegger is a fairly typical statement of that and a good place to start. As regards
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/6512/) - Written By: On Tuesday, February 26, 2013 8:48:49 PM UTC-8, tsheehan wrote:Dear Richard,I'm hoping to get feedback from you and the other colleagues on a couple of points that are the basis of the so-called "paradigm shift" I am proposing for understanding Heidegger. FIRST:At the core of my reading is the thesis that being
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/6513/) - Written By: Dear Professor Capobianco: I was wondering if you might respond to Tom Sheehan's latest re-statement of his paradigm shift. I think Tom has now laid out the clearest and succinct propositions by which to judge his proposed proposed shift. I know you have stated your position a number of times on this
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/7382/) - Written By: dweinberger That the essence of technology is nothing technological is such a key insight. But... ...from my point of view, my description didn't talk about the technology of the Net. Rather, I was trying to point to what we encounter as Net users and participants. I'm trying to let the phenomenon speak
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/7383/) - Written By: Derek Smith Heidegger is saying, as far as I understand, the issue and what is at stake is something non-technological. In order to argue this, he goes back to Aristotle and the Grundfrage, etc. What I feel is happening here in these discussions is a sliding between the topic of discussion (technology
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/7384/) - Written By: Derek Smith Ok, sorry, one last question before I go to work: If what we call the internet is predicated on what Heidegger clearly criticized, how can we say that it is fundamentally different? in order to have the internet, we have to have the dam on the Rhine (spelled correctly). In
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/7385/) - Written By: dweinberger Derek, I am so glad you asked that question, because my response may expose precisely where I'm going wrong. I of course agree that to have the Internet, we need a huge technological infrastructure that draws upon resources and reserves in just the way you say. But explaining the phenomenon of
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/7386/) - Written By: Derek Smith I am just glad for having the chance to think these things through! My point about the tech was that the internet was dependent on disclosing the world as resources, so it was not free from just such a mode of being. The reference to machines was to emphasize the
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/7387/) - Written By: Dana Belu Hello David & Derek, I am just now catching up with all of the conversation threads on the technology topic. Thanx David for filling out the ways in which contemporary technology discloses the world otherwise than (as) Bestand. I wonder what you mean by the Net disclosing the world as
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/7388/) - Written By: dweinberger Dana, your comments bring us back to a question that keeps arising. I read Alone Together and found it to be methodologically flawed -- it's based on Sherry's encounters with troubled youths (she's a psychologist), and she comes to iit already distrustful of the Net's effect.[1] I could pose against this
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/7389/) - Written By: Derek Smith Perhaps that is its most insidious character: as you describe it is offering the opportunity to do so many things, so many things seemingly unlimited except by our own imaginations, and yet we are all doing it through this technology. Perhaps it only seems that we are all interacting differently.
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/7606/) - Written By: Derek Smith Speaking of cynical with age: I'm afraid I very often see human beings as slaves of ideas: willing slaves. I think people are dominated by an idea of being that they themselves do not understand (they do not recognize it as an idea of being) and on the level they
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/7608/) - Written By: Derek Smith "They're no longer merely pushed around, not because they have power to resist the ontohistorical movement but because they can hear its summons." Yes. Thanks.
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/7609/) - Written By: eric d. meyer Dear Prof. Polt et al.: I'd certainly agree that Weltanschauungen are not the primordial "cause" of human actions. That would be a strong Hegelian "idealist" position which has been "corrected" by Marx Nietzsche Freud & Darwin et al. with the theories of "ideology" "the will to power" "the collective
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/9447/) - Written By: David Kleinberg-Levin To Richard Capobianco and other Forum members:I understand and agree that Heidegger's words "point to" the beauty and sublimity of nature, and that he would like us to be able to see that as the unfolding of being in all things---visible yet forever ungraspable. But his invocation of an "announcement" suggests
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/9448/) - Written By: Yifeng Peng Hi Prof. Kleinberg-Levin, I agree with you. Put H.'s philosophy aside, when I said I failed to see beauty, and always ended up being grumpy, of course what I actually meant is I always see and experience beauty in a grumpy way, such as sadness for whatever reasons, and of
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/9449/) - Written By: Yifeng Peng ( Since I don't know anyone here on the forum, it is very difficult to figure out the right and respectful titles to address other forum members in emails, so I will adopt the Confucian tradition and address everyone as Master XX). lol Hi Master Leech, I feel the same
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/9450/) - Written By: Yifeng Peng Not melancholy for sure. My conviction is that people often tend to quickly escape from grumpiness to sadness, as the former is more intense. For a long time, I was really hoping to find some philosophers to theorize grumpiness and make it into a philosophical category, because I am not
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/9451/) - Written By: David Kleinberg-Levin Yes, you may be right. But that final thought about "announcement" is ambiguous. And if all it means is what you have said, then it really is an unnecessary, superfkuous sentence. What is accomplished, what is "added," by invoking Beyng? Gar nichts! Right? David Kleinberg-Levin.
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/9452/) - Written By: David Kleinberg-Levin Yes, Allen, you may well be right. I'd like in fact to think that the Sache is just as you say. But that final thought about "announcement" is then, to say the least, ambiguous. Either it means what you say, or it means something else, something more. And if all
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/9455/) - Written By: David Kleinberg-Levin So, then, what, with the invocation, and "announcement" of beyng, is added, what of importance is said, in that final sentence, after Heidegger's poetic evocation of the beuty and sublimity of nature? What does "beyng" add or bring or give that the poetic evocation that preceded has not already
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/9458/) - Written By: Richard Hammond What a wonderful series of thoughts -- this is Heidegger in action; thinking him beyond words on a page that are to be dissected like a lab animal (to paraphrase the preparatory remarks to H lderlin's Hymns "Germania" and "The Rhine"). David W (and friends): "distressingly like the old metaphysics"
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/9459/) - Written By: Emily Hughes Dear Richard et al, Yes I agree- a wonderful series of thoughts. I find what Lacoue-Labarthe writes in the essay 'Sublime Truth,' very interesting, namely that whilst the "'sublime' is a word which does not belong to the Heideggerian lexicon," "the concept-and the thing itself-are everywhere present" (Lacoue-Labarthe, 1993, p.
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/9460/) - Written By: Christopher Ruth David (et al.), I think partly what Heidegger intends in the descriptions of anxiety and boredom is an experience where the contingency of the whatness of things pokes through. The sublime you experience seems to dwarf the world of meaning in a similar way, what we encounter is the givenness
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/9462/) - Written By: Emily Hughes Yes I think definitely joy too. I would say anxiety, boredom, joy and all the Grundbestimmungen Heidegger refers to throughout his work (despair, melancholy, wonder, holy mourning and so on) are structured according to this 'suspension of absorption' and 'disclosure of whatness itself' (Being) as Christopher R writes... Emily
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/5710/) - Written By: Lou Agosta Very nice, Bob! Thanks! You know, it is hard to say just a little bit about this material, including Befindlichkeit. Heidegger’s analysis in the 1924 lectures maps closely to that provided by Heidegger in 30 of Being
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/5713/) - Written By: Lou Agosta Thanks again, Bob. Spot on. Angst discloses Dasein as a whole and as such in its totality, calling it back from falling (and so on). We are on the same page here - - totally. Now, we need to
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/5724/) - Written By: -----Original Message----- Dear Professor Sheehan, Perhaps you know Stefan George's poem "Komm in den totgesagten park und schau," the last line of which is: "Verwinde leicht im herbstlichen gesicht." For readers of the Forum who don't know this poem, it's about someone strolling through a park in late autumn, picking still living
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/5725/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan Dear friends, Heidegger declares (dogmatically? or if not, on what evidence?) that “up until now human being never yet was historical” (“Bisher war der Mensch noch niemals geschichtlich” GA 65: 492.9 = old CP 346.32 = new CP 387.14). Can anyone help: (1) How does he know this? And (2)
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/7898/) - Written By: David Kleinberg-Levin As I read Heidegger, everything in his project of thought flows from and into the narrative he tells regarding the history of being (be-ing, beyng). That's his unique and truly original contribution! It matters hugely for Heidegger and for us just how, at different historical junctures, "the meaningful presence of things
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/9466/) - Written By: David Kleinberg-Levin Dear Larry Berger: Let me be clear. I am not making a case for reducing everything we see, hear, and handle to the present-at-hand modality of being. When I see a hawk or gaze at a mountain, I am aware, am cognizant, of the perspectives and dimensions that exceed what is
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/9467/) - Written By: David Kleinberg-Levin Good day, Reg! I completely agree with you. Heidegger's invocation of beyng is not only the German Romantic's Sehnsucht for the Absolute, fundamentally innocent in H lderlin, who counters the rhythm of this sentiment in himself with a resounding scepticism, and in Schelling (but perhaps more questionable in Hegel, since
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/9468/) - Written By: David Kleinberg-Levin Dear Larry Berger: Larry, I of course completely agree with you about the importance of attentiveness and mindfulness, taking us deeper and more richly into our experience of the world. And it is true that in various texts, Heidegger summons us to those qualities. But I just do not think
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/10285/) - Written By: Gregory Fried Reg, Is that not pretty much the crisis of all philosophy in our age? That is, the academicization (to coin a monstrosity commensurate with the phenomenon) of philosophy, rather than as a lived vocation in many possible contexts. The bifurcation has its naturalness, though. On the one hand is the inevitable
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/10286/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan Dear Reg, To your question about "inside/outside": By "from outside" I mean: from philosophers (and others) who have little or no competence in his work.By "from inside" I mean: those who do have competence in his work. A lot of energy is going towards dealing with the ab extra attacks,
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/10288/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan Dear Jeff, Perhaps we can agree on the suitability (or not) of the word "crisis" if, like Heidegger, we take it in the Greek sense of and , the "critical" faculty for differentiating and distinguishing (GA 9: 264.13-15 = 202.20-22). Before means anything like a scary disruption, it means the
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/10289/) - Written By: Christophe Perrin Dear Tom, dear All,Are not all the points of the second column (ab intra) rather signs of good health for a still alive thought?"AfterBuddhawasdead,his shadowwas still shown forcenturiesin a cave---a tremendous, gruesome shadow.God is dead; but given the way of men, there may still be caves for thousands of years
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/10292/) - Written By: David Kleinberg-Levin I agree with Reg, here. And speaking of determinate order, I think that, at least as important as recognizing evolution/development/shifts in Heidegger's thought, there is the need to recognize ambiguities in his writings, especially around the main notions, indicative of his own uncertainties, equivocations, ambivalence, and inability to resolve. We
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/10293/) - Written By: Joachim Kübler Jeff, as you may know Vittorio Klostermann left the "Martin-Heidegger-Gesellschaft" because of several passages in the "Black Notebooks". Then some philosophers and literary scholars said that not only the "Black Notebooks", but other works, too were redacted and passages, in which Heidegger wrote something positive about nazism, were eliminated. It's
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/10294/) - Written By: Gregory Fried Thanks, everyone, for the great discussion. Reg put his case very succinctly and well, and --- oddly enough --- I find myself largely agreeing with what Richard P says here below, but with some caveats. This discussion echoes a debate we had here on the list this past summer over
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/11256/) - Written By: garybrown66 Hi Richard,I agree with the point you are making quite eloquently except for your chosen term "metaphysical realism," which I think is unfortunate for many reasons. Surely there is a term that better poetizes being than this throw-back and magnet for misunderstanding that appears to undermine everything you are arguing. Yuck.Concernfully
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/11258/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan Dear Richard, Thanks for this text. May I ask about the following sentences: "But in thinking Being-as-time, Heidegger "grounds" this traditional metaphysics of pure presence. Being as temporal emergence-arising-unfolding encompasses both the "becoming" and "being" of the traditional view. In other words, Being is the whole temporal arc of the
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/5726/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan Dear friends, For something I'm writing, may I ask: Is there a professional consensus on the following three issues? Thanks in advance. Tom 1. Is there a consensus about the following distinction? (The superscripted numbers of course are my own.) Are there good arguments against, or modifications to be made
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/12583/) - Written By: Shane Ewegen Richard (C): You are certainly right that Heidegger says (in GA 55) that being is 'independent' of the human, and you are of course right to emphasize this point. I myself, however, am having trouble reconciling this with other statements in GA 55 (indeed, in the very same pages you
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/5898/) - Written By: David Kleinberg-Levin Very nicely elaborated, Reg! I believe that what I was saying in lapidary fashion is in harmony with what you have said here. David.
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/5903/) - Written By: Richard Hearn It appears that Heidegger wasn't consistent with his use of the accusative verses the genitive when describing the die Lichtung and Verbergung even when referring to their relation in close proximity. The title of Section 226 of the Contributions is "Die Lichtung der Verbergung und die aletheia". But, in the
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/5921/) - Written By: Christopher Ruth "generally speaking, psychoanalysis becomes increasingly irrelevant to the later Heideggerian context." That's an interesting claim...on the one hand, he did do the Zollikon Seminars pretty late in his career; on the other hand, though, in these he mostly talked in terms of his earlier positions, which makes the ZS a
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/6624/) - Written By: nate zuckerman I saw that documentary -- it spends two hours reminding us that Heidegger was a big jerk, and then uses that to mount a thoroughly ad hominem attack against his philosophy. Charles Guignon's essay in Heidegger: A Critical Reader is the best response I've read to this kind of fallacy.
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/7858/) - Written By: Ellis Dye Dear Richard, My thanks for the clarification. Now I need to figure out how seinsgeschichtlich relates to "historical and situated". Are these sub-categories? Does seinsgeschichtlich imply national and ethnic situatedness? I would be grateful for more help. Ellis
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/7861/) - Written By: Ellis Dye Many thanks to you, Richard, and to Allen Scult. Very helpful. Ellis
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/9345/) - Written By: Richard Hammond Wonderful, thank you Prof. Polt - I am in the (hopefully) final stretch of tidying up my doctoral thesis and have spent the last week revisiting yours and Prof. Fried's IM in some depth actually, and that has, in part, contributed to my question. I was aware of the general
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/9924/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan Dear Laurence, Excellent points and questions, and please, no rush to respond to the following. [I've inserted numbers in your text, below.] Tom re 1.Yes, but I believe he never would say that ein Seiendes is "da"/"Da" in his own sense of that term, i.e., as referring to
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/10002/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan Dear Richard, Thank you. Two questions: 1. How would you translate and interpret: "Der Bezug ist das Seyn selbst, und das Menschenwesen ist derselbe Bezug"? 2. Could you criticize my reading of: a. Seyn = das Wesen des Seins des Seienden = das, was das Sein-des-Seienden l t = das
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/10004/) - Written By: David Kleinberg-Levin Greetings! Just a very brief comment regarding [1] Tom's claim (d) Das ereignete Da-sein is die ereignete Lichtungand [2] Richard Polt's response: "I think so. I hesitate a bit because, even though he says in SZ that Dasein is its own clearing, is its own disclosedness, there is also the sense, especially in later texts, that
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/10005/) - Written By: sorrowandsmiles All: I just read through GA 95, and there is much in there to substantiate the claim, just put forth by Richard Polt, that the human being is not the same as Da-sein. Heidegger speaks often therein of becoming Da-sein, of being thrown into Da-sein, and of losing Da-sein. The human
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/10006/) - Written By: Lawrence Berger I would like to suggest here however that in the later Heidegger it is not enough to point to the distinction between humans and Da-sein. There is also a distinction between Da-sein and the clearing, which Heidegger makes in GA 65:380.5-17: Ab-grund ist die z gernde Versagung des Grundes. In
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/10007/) - Written By: David Kleinberg-Levin So, as appropriated and belonging to the clearing, Da-sein both is and is not the clearing itself. David (DKL)
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/10008/) - Written By: Arkadi Choufrine Hi, Shane-- Already in GA29/30, Hd speaks of the need to "awaken Dasein in us." There thus seems to be no need to go as late as the end of the 1930s to substantiate the indicated claim. ~Arkadi
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/10009/) - Written By: David Kleinberg-Levin Dear Larry:In these passages you cite, there is indeed a phenomenological distinguishing of the Ur-phenomenon: two different ways of thinking about it, i.e., about one and the same. In other words, the fact that H deploys two words does not mean that Da-sein is not the clearing itself. One other
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/10010/) - Written By: Lawrence Berger Thanks for these questions, David. In the way I understand the passages, the originary clearing arises from the withdrawal of beyng. This enables the hesitant withholding to be made manifest, where the assumption is that clearing enables manifestation. It is this manifestation that enables the call of Da-sein to its
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/10011/) - Written By: David Kleinberg-Levin Larry, I recognize the idea of the "withdrawal of beying"! That is straight out of the Jewish Kabbalah! According to that school of thought, God withdew after creating the world, the universe, in order to give human beings freedom, hence ethical life, the possibility of good and evil. But is
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/10012/) - Written By: David Kleinberg-Levin Dear Larry: Good day to you! I want to respond to your question from 11:52 PM, 29 January (See immediately below my response here). Everything depends on whether, in the textual passages you have ben citing, "Ereignis" is understood as an event or is understood as the inherent
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/11274/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan I'd say: Take your time. These are important and complex issues. Tom
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/11275/) - Written By: Christopher Ruth Is the phrase "human Dasein" helpful in these contexts? Wouldn't "the truth of being is Dasein-related" mean something like "disclosure needs and requires existence, i.e. a disclosed (temporal, anticipating etc.) way of being?"
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/11276/) - Written By: garybrown66 Hello,The thread I am responding to is whether Being is exhausted by the clearing or transcends the clearing. I lifted the following from Richard Polt's email:"Von der recht gedachten 'Existenz' her l t sich das 'Wesen' des Daseins denken, in dessen Offenheit das Sein selbst sich bekundet and verbirgt, gew hrt
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/11850/) - Written By: Hi all, For what it's worth, I don't think the realism/idealism debate can be "undercut," either. But for me, the reason is that the debate itself "happens" entirely within that "derivative mode of being-in-the-world called knowledge." The crucial question, it seems to me, is "Who" is asking? Insisting--as a "thinker," not
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/12833/) - Written By: William Britt Dear Bob, A good point. Language (in all its richness, including gesture) is what lets things show up and matter to us as different from and similar to each other -- lets them show themselves. Language, as an organized way of dwelling with reality, is the a priori. But there
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/13126/) - Written By: William Britt Excellent. Thank you both. Will
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/6057/) - Written By: Bricker, Jeffrey Dear Derek, Every bit as important to whom? Why? Jeff
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/6058/) - Written By: Bricker, Jeffrey Dear Bob, If you are correct and Heidegger is advocating this, then he sounds pretty confused to me. The concealed is, by definition, exactly what doesn’t “show up”. Jeff
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/6060/) - Written By: Tony See Dear Jeff,I think this is apparent in An Introduction to Metaphysics. Heidegger's seemingly paradoxical thought can also be gathered from his work on technology, the "saving power" comes precisely from the "danger." I think likewise, the concealed is not to be repudiated, because it is precisely where the unconcealed is found. RegardsTony
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/6061/) - Written By: Bricker, Jeffrey Dear Bob, The first sentence of your post nicely summarizes what Herman Philipse has described as the “Neo-Hegelian theme” in Heidegger’s later thought (see his study called Heidegger’s Philosophy of Being from Princeton University Press, 1998—especially pages 157-172 and pages 302-310) and I agree with you that this is what
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/6062/) - Written By: Bricker, Jeffrey Hi Tony, Welcome to the least lively forum on the internet. I agree with you that Heidegger has a penchant for “seemingly paradoxical” statements, (although the example you give is actually Heidegger quoting Holderlin) and I consider this to be one of the least attractive features of his later writings.
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/6064/) - Written By: Christopher Ruth I don't think "finitude" is missing in the later Heidegger, although I'm not sure about actual instances "circa 1947" in particular. Finitude is a central idea all the way through. What happens to the word "facticity" is a bigger question but concealing or "ontological occlusion" certainly runs all the way
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/6066/) - Written By: Christopher Ruth Well, the Zollikon Seminars are Heidegger discussing his work with a group of psychologists who were influenced by Being and Time, and that work forms the horizon of the talks. It is very interesting insofar as it is the later Heidegger returning to the terms and questions of the earlier
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/6067/) - Written By: Derek Smith Yes, this is what I think is important to Heidegger, at least in my reading of Contributions.
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/6068/) - Written By: Matthew Shockey Jeff Bricker's original question was 'what can be said or thought about the concealed?' This seems like an important question for getting clear on what later Heidegger -- Heydegger, as I like to think of him -- is up to. So far responses have mostly insisted that unconcealing always involves
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/6069/) - Written By: nate zuckerman I also never fully understood the specific meaning of the point about concealing. One version is to say that it is being that gets concealed because, in trying to understand it, we always do so by way of entities and so ... therefore being fails to show itself? That's can't
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/6072/) - Written By: Charles Guignon Maybe I'm being dense, but doesn't it help to think of our paradigmatic understanding of being as involving a strife between world and earth? The work of art is like a tension, in which each dimension struggles to express itself (the heaviness of stone and the lightness of the agile
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/6074/) - Written By: Nobuya Ochinero Although I am no scholar on the issue of what shows and doesn't show itself in Heidegger's later thinking on Being, I don't think it was his ultimate goal to conceptualize or re-present them in a system, but to remain open to the strife to the end and to let
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/6605/) - Written By: Javier Vargas Hello Mr. Ruth and thank you for taking the time to address my somewhat naive question. I agree with the answers you gave and the Heideggerian perspective you took to shed light on it. Your assessment of the state of the discipline as being fragmentary seems right to me. I
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/6606/) - Written By: Javier Vargas Hello Professor Polt,Thank you for commenting on my question. I guess some people could also say that Derrida comes after Heidegger. But I know all too well that he is a controversial figure in terms of how he fits in the phenomenological tradition being more readily identifiable as a post-structuralist.
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/6607/) - Written By: Henry Dicks Dear Javier, Thanks for your interesting question it s certainly a fun one to debate. I m working in a philosophy department in France at the moment, and the general impression I get is that philosophy here has lost direction since the 70s and 80s. Badiou, Ranci re, Marion, Nancy,
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/6608/) - Written By: Bricker, Jeffrey Dear Professor Dicks, I was relieved to hear you affirm what many intellectuals here in America have suspected for some time; namely, that French philosophy has “lost direction since the 70s and 80s”. Personally, I can’t find anything of interest in French thought after, say, Derrida (circa 1975). Unfortunately, I
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/6609/) - Written By: Henry Dicks Dear Professor Bricker, Thanks for your reply. I agree with you that cross-disciplinary dialogue is at present not especially fruitful, but that, in my opinion, is precisely because the sciences stand so far apart, hence the need to reunite and ground them. In his commentary on H lderlin s The
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/6610/) - Written By: Mason, Emma Dear Javier, Thanks for the very interesting debate your query has spurred on the forum. I'd like to offer a few words in defence of French theological writing on Heidegger. You mention Marion in your initial post, a figure who has helped draw out the religious implications of Heidegger's work.
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/6611/) - Written By: Bricker, Jeffrey Dear Professor Dicks, I enjoyed reading your thoughtful response to my recent post. Although Richard Rorty was a life-long birdwatcher and enthusiastic student of wild orchids you are correct that he was remarkably sanguine about environmental matters (at least in print). He made it clear that he thought Heidegger’s talk
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/6612/) - Written By: Henry Dicks Dear Professor Bricker, Thank you for sharing your thoughts here. I also enjoyed reading your views on Heidegger and Rorty. Our positions are clearly pretty far apart, but my main line of response would be to say that there seems to me to be a conservatism and lack of imagination
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/6613/) - Written By: Korassi Téwéché Carlos Bonjour tous ! Je trouve le d bat passionnant et les diff rentes interventions vraiment enrichissantes pour moi. J'avoue humblement que j'apprends beaucoup. Merci pour cet enrichissement! Cependant, j'ai l'impression, pour tre sinc re que Monsieur Javier nous a embarqu dans une sorte d' Holzwege
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/8353/) - Written By: Ian Maley Dear esteemed members of the Circle, My name is Ian Maley. I am a doctoral student in philosophy at Villanova University and a new member of the Heidegger Circle. I thank the many contributors for the very interesting ongoing discussion on . Today I happened to come across a few
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/8429/) - Written By: antoniouk Hi Pete, many thanks for this. However, if someone says that "Aristotle's ontology has governed our plexus of possibility of being-in-the world" this is something more that simply stating that someone, sooner or later, would have conceptualised things (i.e., your example of Einstein). Are we "agencies" or is there some kind
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/8357/) - Written By: ERIC J SANDBERG Dear Friends: Perhaps Heidegger can be thought in this direct (which privileges difference), early on, Heidegger felt that 'aletheia' as Warheit could be left well enough alone but later came to lament dealing with it in a discourse of 'truth.' In "B&T" where Being is thought out of beings,
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/9256/) - Written By: Arkadi Choufrine "something like Zionism and the American Revolution are also consistent with the formal structure of SZ. So the idea that SZ is a fascist programme is a non-philosophical howler"--An excellent point, Larry!One might add, even more relevantly historically, Soviet (or any other communist) totalitarianism. I've been wondering, btw, why, say,
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/9257/) - Written By: ERIC J SANDBERG Greg: The use of 'absolute,' with its unwanted/unwarranted Hegelian baggage, was meant to convey the understanding that there's ONLY particularization which is already conveyed in the understanding that be-ing only happens in beings. The vivendi is that whatness is displaced to 'intuitable characteristic' and subordinated to thatness. Plato on
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/9258/) - Written By: Theodore Kisiel Dear Arkadi, Bob, Eric, Larry et al., A very tardy reply and thanks to your many remarks on the issue of formally indication that calls each individual Da-Sein to come to terms with its unique historically situated existence. First, my article in GATHERINGS 2014 begins with Jean Beaufret's underscoring the revolutionary paradigm shift in phenomenology from
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/9259/) - Written By: Theodore Kisiel Dear All, FI in the later MH: The Beitraege is replete with indications of the singularity and uniqueness (Einzigkeit) and ownness (Eigenheit) of be-ing (Seyn), and so of Da-sein, as it is encountered in Heidegger's ultimate reality, das Er-eignis. A particularly telling passage is on GA65 245/193: "... be-ing en-owns/ap-propriates (er-eignet) the
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/9260/) - Written By: ERIC J SANDBERG The term 'absolute' -- already looking specious in the formulation -- was meant to point to a ubiquity of the particular in 'be-ing' and still point to a hanging-together. (Too much Hegelian baggage, I suspect.) Can we play with the word, with grammatical construction as Heidegger often advises? There's
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/9261/) - Written By: ERIC J SANDBERG Given that 'absolute particularization' be brought to some 'final' (no such thing so say usable)) formulation, might it be brought together with an 'ontologized' formal-indication such that they BELONG together ala thing/thing rendered or Logos? Food for thought.
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/9262/) - Written By: ERIC J SANDBERG At bottom of Heidegger's thinking is a 'logic' of heterogeneity, of paradox. The paradox of 'absolute particularization,' which just is the paradox that Heidegger leaves us with, is to have be-ing and efface it too.
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/9263/) - Written By: ERIC J SANDBERG Absolute particularization follows out of the displacement in Heidegger's understanding of 'essence' (Idea) to 'essential occurrence.' There is no paradigm 'rose,' only that which 'roses,' (tr. vb.) which is different from that which 'peonies' (tr. Vb.). [In one sense, Heidegger is trying to put paid to the nominalist/realist debate
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/9355/) - Written By: Arkadi Choufrine "... the alternatives of Eigentlichkeit and Uneigentlichkeit also function with regard to things, not just man"-- Sound intriguing to me. Does Hd develop this idea in any published texts? Thanks. ~Arkadi
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/9356/) - Written By: David Kleinberg-Levin But surely, these terms bear a different sense when characterizing things, rather than human beings: presumably differentiating the genuine from the fake, the original from the copy or reproduction---the faithful reproduction or reconstruction from the clumsy, unfaithful, and irresponsible. And undoubtedly, at certain points during his time wandering amidst the
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/9357/) - Written By: Arkadi Choufrine This might well be what Hd had in mind yet I am wondering whether there are any actual texts in which he applies these characteristics (Eigentlichkeit and Uneigentlichkeit) to things. ~Arkadi , 25 2015 ., 12:50:53 UTC-4 David Kleinberg-Levin : But surely, these terms bear a different sense when characterizing
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/9264/) - Written By: ERIC J SANDBERG "As soon as 'being' is no longer representable (idea), as soon as, consequently, being is no longer thought away from beings, 'separated' from them (out of a craving to grasp being as and as unalloyed as possible), as soon as beyng is experienced as contemporaneous (in an original sense
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/9265/) - Written By: ERIC J SANDBERG Hello All: Variation on a theme. (Call me Glen Gould. LOL) "Absolute (sous rature) particular characterizes/ 'characteristic' particularizes absolutely."The rose (never two roses exactly the same) 'roses." (tr. vb.) Rosesness (rose rendered?) organizes (gathers) roses. A Sameness and not an eternal essence.
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/9266/) - Written By: ERIC J SANDBERG A safe Sunday to all: Would you believe . . . "Absolute particularization repeats/ repetition particularizes (absolutely)."
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/9679/) - Written By: Arkadi Choufrine Graeme: I trust this is so. I see virtually no interest here in this text, though. Perhaps the reason is that it has been "digested" too well.... ~Arkadi ________________________________________
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/9267/) - Written By: ERIC J SANDBERG Heidegger's language. I'm only blaming him for the language. (LOL) [The] original-unique repeats essentially. The essential repetition only unfolds out of (an) original-unique.
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/10314/) - Written By: Gregory Fried Hello everyone. I have a copy of the book and can have it scanned to Tom today. I'm letting you know so we do not duplicate efforts. Greg Fried
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/7653/) - Written By: Derek Smith Anti-Semitic, anti-American, anti-Bolshevik, anti-English, anti-Nazi, anti-metaphysics of the West, ...
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/7654/) - Written By: eric d. meyer Dear Prof. Polt: Well, yes. I'd guess Anglo-American "liberal democracy" was immensely to be preferred to Stalinism and Nazism. For those for whom it was an option...But the German experience with "liberal democracy" was Weimar, the German Depression, threats of communist revolution, etc. Adolf Hitler & the Nazis could
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/7655/) - Written By: eric d. meyer Dear Prof. Polt & HC: Okay, so I'll resend my submission to the court. I do think it's worth clarifying these terms ("Nazi," "anti-Semitic," "racist" etc.) if we're going to use them. And it appears "we" are... Because in any tribunal or trial, it's always imperative to clarify what
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/7657/) - Written By: David Kleinberg-Levin As Richard Polt says, it's not some obsession with Heidegger's guilt or innocence that is behind the Heidegger Circle's discussion, but the question of whether, and if so how, his philosophical thought might be inflected" by a certain anti-Semitism, racism, and fascism. Only that! DKL.
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/7658/) - Written By: eric d. meyer Dear Heideggerians: Well, okay, but... My remarks had to do with reading Emmanuel Faye's Heidegger..., which, frankly, reads like a denunciation, written by a Soviet communist or French liberation jurist during the post-War "purge" trials (epuration legale), when "Nazi collaborators" & "anti-Semites," who did no more than write satiric
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/10115/) - Written By: David Kleinberg-Levin Yes, Richard, thanks. This is the direction my own reflections have taken, based largely on GA 29/30. But, with all the talk of Lichtung as appropriative of the essential structure of Da-sein, I wanted to see if this understanding of the Lichtung changed how we read GA 29/30. I
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/10799/) - Written By: Gregory Fried Dear Mr. Price, There is a shadow of truth to Emmanuel Faye's claim, a shadow upon which he builds a grand light-show that I believe is an illusion. For those who don't read French, Faye writes, "Heidegger radically destroys the notion of man. In the lecture course of 1942 he
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/10801/) - Written By: Gregory Fried Dear Mr. Price, I will respond briefly by saying that the question you ask is as ancient as political philosophy: What is the relation of individual to society? Is the good of the self separable from the community? Dependent on the community? Higher (or lower) than the good of the
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/10803/) - Written By: Gregory Fried You are very kind to say so, Mr. Price --- about the essay and about the violence! Theory and practice --- they go together. I am not convinced about my own work, but I am about the violence. Regards, Greg Fried --- Gregory Fried Professor and Chair, Philosophy Department Director, The Mirror
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/11416/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan Dear Richard, (I do realize I'm only saying what you already know.) When Hd quotes Pindar in SZ ("werde, was du bist!") or earlier in his first KNS lecture ("Mensch, werde wesentlich!"), he's simply in the long tradition that recognizes the tension between essence and fact. Both/and. Aristotle (acc. to
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/11419/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan Dear Pete. Some other places. Physics III 1, 201b30-32: , . ditto Physics IX 3, 257b8; De anima II 5, 417a16 De anima III 7, 431a6-7 Metaphysics IX 6, 1048b29: , Metaphysics XI 9 1066a2: , Tom
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/12095/) - Written By: Henry Dicks Dear Wayne, Just picking up on your idea about Heidegger's work being philosophically incoherent or unfinished, and in need of supplementation. Unfinished is surely how Heidegger saw it. He saw himself as "preparing" Dr. Henry Dicks Enseignant en philosophieUniversit Jean Moulin Lyon 3 Teaching fellow in philosophyUniversity Jean Moulin Lyon
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/12096/) - Written By: Henry Dicks Sorry - that got sent accidentally and unfinished. I meant to go on to say that Heidegger saw himself as "preparing" a new beginning for thinking. If that's the case, then his thought is not even "half-baked", as it were. It's more like some dough that still hasn't been put
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- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/12108/) - Written By: Henry Dicks Yes, just to chime in with what Richard was saying, Heidegger noted only that at no point did the early Greeks use aletheia in the sense of unconcealment. In Homer, for example, aletheia means truth in the sense of the correctness of propositions. But this is perfectly in keeping with
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/12717/) - Written By: Great question, Dave. I imagine you were smiling when you asked it, knowing full well that you were throwing something out that probably has no straightforward answer. I don't think there was a textual place or an Aha moment about this. Of course, as I discuss in the book, the issue
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/6249/) - Written By: Raoni Padui Dear Tom, Reg, et al, Tom, I don't think the "regional ontology" account is all Heidegger has to say about nature or natural science. A more robust sense of things in themselves would have to further investigate their unsinnig nature, their ability to move in and out of Welt without
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/6251/) - Written By: Glazebrook, Patricia FYI, see attached in case it offers anything useful here
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/7516/) - Written By: ERIC J SANDBERG I want to say that he maintains a good/bad stand a la Kunt until the Intro and then the word begins to take on more ominous tones. Never wholly out, I would say. This for everyone. What are the ONTOLOGICAL reasons for shoveling snow. The ONTIC ones are killing me.
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/7517/) - Written By: Henry Dicks Hi again Richard, In response to the passage you quote from Introduction to Metaphysics, I would say that there are three definitions of metaphysics implicit in this passage, and also in Heidegger’s thought in general. 1.Metaphysics qua “beyond-physis”, where physis is understood as self-showing/autopoiesis. This, as I see it, is
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/7518/) - Written By: Derek Smith Henry: Another cogent post, for which I thank you. Your clear explications help me immensely through these differing shades of meaning. I very much appreciate your return to the phrase "a waste of valuable resources." Derek Sent from my iPad
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/7761/) - Written By: Shane Ewegen Richard: Thank you for the clarification and the expansion. I would love to speak with you more about this — perhaps at the Heidegger Circle in May over a cup of any liquid of your choosing. A couple brief remarks, though, as an aperitif to hold me over. I agree
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/8457/) - Written By: ptheophanidis Hi Jeffrey, I would very much understand the IT guys chuckling, especially if the students you're writing about were opposing this so-called "binary thinking" to "non-binary thinking". I can understand how the mention of "dialectical opposition" can summon the idea of "binary thinking". That being said, I certainly did not intend
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/8459/) - Written By: ptheophanidis Hi Jeffrey, Thank you for your recommended reading regarding Heidegger and Aristotle. I've found a copy of Philipse's book online and will be able to examine the passages you kindly pointed to. One can find a similar concern for human existence in Jean-Luc Nancy attempt at re-thinking the experience of "community".
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/8527/) - Written By: Babette Babich and 95 ... uploaded by the same wonderful person....
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- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/9500/) - Written By: Theodore Kisiel Dear Tom, David, Reg et al., JUST caught up to your queries. Keep in mind that I began my remarks by affirming Tom's quote on the "...openedness of the clearing that we ourselves are." Yorck's famous line, "We ourselves are our history" is always in the context of his soulmate Dilthey's
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/9502/) - Written By: Theodore Kisiel Dear Reg et al., Jedeinigkeit and Jeunsrigkeit appear, it seems, only in still unpublished notes out of the thirties, while the course of SS 1934, which goes all-out after the quasi-political question "Who are we?," first raised in 1929, stands out for its proliferation of all the personal pronouns I, thou, we, and you (Ihr)
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/9503/) - Written By: Babette Babich Dear Ted, Very intriguing and very informative ... I especially appreciate the emphasis on the thou, the only way in truth, quaint though it be, to translate Du into English early Old High German thou/thu classical OHG d , du (English thou, Icelandic : Low German d , German du)
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/5582/) - Written By: David Kleinberg-Levin Carrying forward Richard Polt's remarks (see immediately below), I would like to suggest that, better than reading Heidegger's "Geviert" as a nostalgic, elegiac form of romanticism, it might be read as challenging, unsettling, even disturbing, our all-too-comfortable relationships to the things in our world. As I interpret it, it is
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/5583/) - Written By: David Kleinberg-Levin P.S. In other words, the point of my example is to indicate (as a formal indication, perhaps) that, & how, "das Geviert" might be understood to represent a profound, and perhaps extremely unsettling transformation in our social relations, hence in the political organization of society. But, of course, other
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/5585/) - Written By: David Kleinberg-Levin Reg: I agree completely with your way of carrying forward what I was trying to get across in introducing the sardines. Indeed, such is our synchronicity that, at about the same time you wrote the remarks just below, referring to Blanchot, I was composing a post script to my preceding
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/5642/) - Written By: Charles Guignon Isn't "excess" just what the German tradition since Fichte called "facticity"? C (home) 16008 Gatwick Ct. Tampa, FL 33647 813/866-8223 University of South Florida 4202 E. Fowler - FAO 226 Tampa, FL 33620 Mahatma Ghandi: the "seven social sins": commerce without morality, politics without principle, wealth without work, pleasure without
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/5644/) - Written By: bwdavis I've been following this excellent discussion with great interest, and may not have much to add to Richard's and Greg's last posts, which I found very helpful, other than perhaps a reference: section 131 of Contributions, entitled "Das Uebermass im Wesen des Seyns (das Sichverbergen)" [The excess in the essence [or
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/5645/) - Written By: Christopher Ruth Here are a couple of quick remarks on what Dr. Fried has just posted: First of all, Heidegger talks about Seyn or Ereignis as a displacement or an excess, as in: "this displacement places man for the first time into the decision of the most decisive relations to beings and
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/5646/) - Written By: Christopher Ruth My last email I should add did NOT address excess in Dr. Polt's first sense, as the brute esse of a being. This might be what is exemplified in the movie "The Gods Must Be Crazy"--when an object exceeds the opening of world that would provide it with meaning (i.e.
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/5647/) - Written By: Irvin It is unfortunate, as demonstrated by flummoxed Heidegger scholars themselves, that what he intended to convey was too often frustrated by an opaque writing style. The clearest and most rewarding introduction to being for me has been Mortimer Adler's book, "Some Questions about Language -- A Theory of Human Discourse and
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/5648/) - Written By: Ferdi Memelli Heidegger shows that in his time Plato's writing style was even more opaque than that of Being and Time. When I hear about Heidegger's opaque writing style, I think that if Heidegger, Nietzsche, Hegel, or for that matter any philosopher down to Plato, had submitted his writings to one of
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/5649/) - Written By: Cathy Leblanc Hello, If i could add just a little comment about this style, I would remind of the admiration Heidegger had for Heraclitus, a pre-socratic thinker who was also called Heraclitus the obscure. The reason is that he wanted his style to flow and look like his ideas. So, he suppressed
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/5654/) - Written By: Dear Richard Congratulations, and thanks for the good news. I'll order my copy forthwith. As to the cover picture, there is no question that Heidegger was a Nazi, but understanding what it means to be or to have been a Nazi or a promoter of Nazism is the big gap in Heidegger studies. You
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/5656/) - Written By: I've just written a draft of a semi-popular book about science in the course of which I find it useful -- even indispensable -- to discuss Heidegger. My editor at Norton queried me about whether, in this kind of book -- not principally for philosophers -- Heidegger's name could be mentioned without
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/5658/) - Written By: Cathy Leblanc Hello Bob, If I may : this modest contribution : I don't know if I can agree with all that you assert here in all good faith. As I have previously mentionned, I work with associations of survivors and we are trying to find new ways of achieving the work
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/5659/) - Written By: Christopher Ruth I'm not clear what the following passage bears on: Ethics means posing the question, How can I be better? not pointing out the faults of others. Those whose idea of ethics is to point out the faults of others display not only lack of understanding, but of moral integrity as
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/5661/) - Written By: Dear Cathy: "How can I be better?" is not a personal question; it's about one's being-in-the-world and being-with-others, rather than about one's individual career. What annoyed me, and provoked the footnote, is the insistence that Heidegger scholars wear the scarlet letter and talk about the Nazi connection when it has absolutely nothing
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/5662/) - Written By: Cathy Leblanc Dear Bob, I understand the scope of this essential question as regards being-in-the-world and being-with-others and I perfectly agree and thank you for this precision. It is very easy to attack Heidegger and imagine links that do not exist between the content of his work and the general nazi ideology.
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/5664/) - Written By: Christopher Ruth On the other hand, the suggestion seems to be that ethics is not about condemning people? While I agree with that, I have no problem condemning Heidegger for joining the Nazi Party and in real life it is hard to make ethical evaluations without judging others at all, whether or
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/5665/) - Written By: David Weinberger "What annoyed me, and provoked the footnote, is the insistence that Heidegger scholars wear the scarlet letter and talk about the Nazi connection when it has absolutely nothing to do with the Sache at hand." - rcrease I am not entirely convinced. Here are three concerns. I list these as
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/5666/) - Written By: Cathy Leblanc What I meant is that I think it might not be that productive to focus on this condemnation and of course, the ideology was well known, of course many German people knew and resisted to the price of their lives, very early (see all the recent inquiries about German resistance).
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/5667/) - Written By: Christopher Ruth No, I'm sorry, don't misunderstand me. I was just commenting on the statement "Those whose idea of ethics is to point out the faults of others display not only lack of understanding, but of moral integrity as well." This is a statement I actually agree with, I'm just not sure
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/8781/) - Written By: David Kleinberg-Levin Quite frankly, whilst on the one hand, as a philosopher who has invested much time and reflection in reading, interpreting, and teaching Heidegger s thought, a lifetime of work the merits of which cannot be overestimated, I do not want to see Heidegger s thought translated, even if only by
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/8795/) - Written By: Christopher Ruth As I understand Heidegger being requires Dasein. This doesn't imply that being "is" (or "wests" or whatever) because Dasein exists, though, but that being essentially demands and calls forth a being that exists in the manner of Dasein. So because there "is" being, there is Dasein. Of course the "is"
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/10645/) - Written By: Joachim Kübler Hello Doug, I searched via amazon.de - 1031! Sorry, I'll pass ;-) Best, Joachim "Der Mensch ist nicht der Herr des Seienden. Er ist der Hirt des Seins." Martin Heidegger
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/10647/) - Written By: Richard Hammond Hear, hear, David.
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/8796/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan Dear friends,1. Was das Sein selbst [aka - ] operative in the Jurassic Period?2. Isdas Sein des Seienden always daseinsm ig? 2.1 If so, is it alwaysbedeutungsm ig? 2.2 If not, was it reptilienm ig in the Jurassic Period?Tom On May 24, 2017, at 8:44 AM, Richard Capobianco wrote:
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/8798/) - Written By: Gregory Fried Tom, Heidegger, in GA 29/30, called animals welt-arm, world-poor. In your scheme, that might mean, oddly, that animals, even in the Jurassic, operate within aletheia-2, but have no access to either aletheia-prime or to aletheia-3. That is because "things" have meaning to them, and so there is Being in the sense
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/12695/) - Written By: So, because two people use the same word--even though one is a translated German philosopher and the other a collective Psychiatric Mind--they must mean the same thing?
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/6520/) - Written By: Henry Dicks Thanks, Richard, for bringing up these questions. It s true that explaining physis in terms of entropy brings it into contact with cybernetics, thermodynamics, and information theory. But physis (interpreted as autopoiesis) is much more than this. To answer your two main questions, autopoiesis theory differs from cybernetics on precisely
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/9092/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan Dear friends,1. Given that has three meanings in the pre-Socratics (and at least two in Homer), all of which are distinct from Heidegger's own -prime; 2. given that Heidegger distinguishes three distinct senses of in the Greeks;3. given that Aristotle already knew that = Sein; 4. given that
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/9939/) - Written By: David Kleinberg-Levin Good day, Richard! I am not surprised that you are surprised! You basically confirm my impression that Heidegger must have come so profoundly under the influence of the earluest Greek thinkers that he completely abandoned his phenomenological project, completely ceased his attempt to break out of metaphysics, attempting instead to
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/9940/) - Written By: David Kleinberg-Levin As a response to Alberto Moreiras, I suggest that Heidegger's retrieval of the earliest Greek cosmological vision does little, if anything, to rescue us from the Ge-stell into which he thinks, in much later writings, he have fallen. And indeed, it seems that, by the 1950's, his thinking was no
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/9942/) - Written By: David Kleinberg-Levin Dear Alberto:Retrieving the thinking of the earliest Greek thinkers is one thing---somnething I approve of wholeheartedly, and have myself vigorously argued for and attempted to contribute to. But presenting as "the fundamental experience" of his own thinking, hence as his own thinking, is quite another matter. Correspondingly, it is one
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/9949/) - Written By: Reginald Lilly Richard and/or Tom, A two questions of clarification, if I may. 1) With whom, in Heidegger's view, did metaphysics begin? 2)Who, if in his view there are any, are the non-metaphysical thinkers? Thanks, Reg
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/9950/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan Dear Reg, I'll leave this to Richard Capobianco to answer. Tom Thomas SheehanStanford Universityhttp://religiousstudies.stanford.edu/people/tom-sheehan/
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/10892/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan Richard is quite right: 96 not 97. And yes, always engaged--and able to blow out all five candles. But still unconvinced, he told me, by the soi-disant "paradign shift." Tom
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/10893/) - Written By: Gregory Fried Interesting that Bill is just shy as many years old as the Gesamtausgabe has volumes. I wonder if he will catch up before volume 98 comes out. Greg Gregory Fried Professor and Chair Philosophy Department Suffolk University gfried@suffolk.edu
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/11652/) - Written By: jasuss88 "And although they're not Heideggerians at all, it's worth mentioning those who like to dream of a "posthuman" or "transhuman" future in which we will become cyborgs or electronic beings and transcend death. Heidegger's rival "eschatology" and analysis of technology can be deployed against them in interesting ways." While this is
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/11655/) - Written By: Gregory G. Fried Dear Jonathan Suss, I think you make an excellentset of points here. While I suspect that the post-human hankeringfor immortality is a sign of a nihilism that Heidegger would find appalling, and which I too find disturbing, too, we do well to remember the observations you make here. Technology is
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/11656/) - Written By: Dear David, et al. Thanks for getting this source into the picture. Bert could sometimes accommodate his Heidegger too much to the analytic tradition, but on this issue he was, I think, largely right. His thesis is not that we should all immediately stop our AI projects--as if anyone involved in
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/12667/) - Written By: William Britt Dear Bob, Could you say something about the reason for your dismay? For my part, I am worried that the ubiquitous language of addiction treats as a disease process (i.e., something that happens to us) what is in fact a sedimentation of habitual choices -- that is, a character problem.
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/12672/) - Written By: William Britt Dear John, Aha. I see. All of that, for Heidegger, is indeed going to count as dispersion among beings, or errancy, and you're right that it's going to come in degrees. I don't think the psychoses should be included on the list (they differ in kind), but in doing so
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/12678/) - Written By: William Britt Dear John, An observation: when you want to explain what you mean by addiction, you point to restlessness (and phenomena thereof). But restlessness (or uncanniness) is not addiction, even on your account. It is the motivation for addiction, the human structure that addiction manifests; addiction is one pole on the
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/5975/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan Dear Graeme, Thanks much for your note, and I take your point. The first note is simply to the whole, and the following notes indicate the specific passages; hence they are in correct order. I appreciate your clearing this up. Best regards, Tom
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/6713/) - Written By: Dear Friends, I may have misunderstood Richard Capobianco's point about the meaning of "das Selbe" (or "dasselbe") versus "das Gleiche," but for the sake of any others who may also have misunderstood, allow me to point out that "das Selbe" means identity, i.e. the very same thing, whereas "das Gleiche" implies two
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/7085/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan Dear Richard, Or perhaps (not as a translation so much as a paraphrastic paraphrase): "being-the-open; being-open; openness." Perhaps something like that is what one should "hear" however one translates "Dasein." The last word in the German of Heidegger's text below is: Offenheit. Tom
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/7756/) - Written By: Babette Babich Thank you, Richard, your generous gesture beat me to the request! Babette Babich Professor of Philosophy Fordham University, The Jesuit University of New York Executive Editor: New Nietzsche Studies Web Page: http://faculty.fordham.edu/babich/ The Hallelujah Effect: Philosophical Reflections on Music, Performance Practice, and Technology(Surrey: Ashgate, 2013) Professor Babette Babich Department of Philosophy Fordham University 113 West 60th Street, 925H or 914 New York, NY 10023 | USA Office: (212) 636-6297 | Fax: (212) 636-7153 Email: Babich@fordham.edu
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/5459/) - Written By: Babette Babich Because only grad studs and podtfocs are worth hearing from! Such excellent stuff! #TheFuture
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/5461/) - Written By: Joel Reynolds "I would like to second what Jennifer Gammage said. I am grateful to all those who provide respectful, constructive criticism and foster an open, welcoming environment to scholars at all levels. -- Joel Michael Reynolds PhD Candidate Department of Philosophy Emory University Emory ORDER Fellow Graduate Affiliate, Emory Disability Studies
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/5462/) - Written By: Nate Zuckerman I third the remark. I even had a similar experience as a recent graduate and young faculty member: at a Heidegger Circle presentation, I really wanted to ask a question during the Q&A session, but (if my memory serves me) the majority if not all of the questions fielded were
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/5464/) - Written By: David Kleinberg-Levin Indeed! Forsooth, my dear Babette! It's a feast, but questa volta, not yours! DKL
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/5465/) - Written By: Babette Babich Dear Jennifer! Grad students and recent PhDs have rightly enjoyed center stage ever since the Heidegger Circle stopped requiring that one have more than one published article on Heidegger (as a *condition* for membership -- gosh can ya believe it?) and that one be nominated by a senior member as
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/5466/) - Written By: R. Dye Dear Jennifer (if I may) and all young Heideggerians, Make sure you know German well--and not just well enough to "read" or to pass a Ph.D. language exam, but conversationally, colloquially. Get to Germany. Read German literature. I think this is a must and one, happily, informing the work of
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/5467/) - Written By: R. Dye Dear Heideggerians, I am provoked by Jennifer's letter to say that much more is required for an understanding of Heidegger than a standard university survey course kind of knowledge of the Pre-Socratics, or Plato or Aristotle, or Hegel or Husserl, although all of this is, of course, essential..I think some
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/5468/) - Written By: David Kleinberg-Levin Ellis, without wishing in the least to deny the wisdom in your counsel, I must remark that no amount of immersion in the studying of the German language would suffice for many of Heidegger's neologisms. Also, we come to understanding a language through understanding its world as much as we
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/5469/) - Written By: R. Dye Dear David, I agree with everything you say. No qualifications. Still, I think that the Heideger Forum borders on narrowness--Fach-Idototie--unter den Talaren der Staub von tausend Jahren--at the expense of a serious understanding of Heidegger's world. Thanks for responding. Ellis
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/5470/) - Written By: Babette Babich Or as Goethe had it (and I think this would take a bit of unpacking) ... Concrete Art -- From Berlin. Today. Babette Babich Fulbright Fellow , Humboldt University, Berlin Fordham Faculty Fellowship: 2015-2016 Professor of Philosophy Fordham University, The Jesuit University of New York Executive Editor: New Nietzsche Studies
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/5471/) - Written By: R. Dye Amen, Babette. Ellis
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/5472/) - Written By: Reginald Lilly Q: What of 'Alles' can one experience through a book? Maybe because Buecher don't give us Alles, we can fail to conceive of what they are about. A wonderfully ambiguously statement, in any case. r
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/9918/) - Written By: Arkadi Choufrine Dear Richard--- You seem to be right that the scope of what is construed as "in-dependent upon Dasein" in the later Hd. is expanded to include Being/Beying; and I did get this much out of your citations. My question, however, was not about the scope but about the meaning of
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/13152/) - Written By: babette.babich Thanks Bob: Looking forward to reading this. With best wishes for your well-being, Babette On Saturday, March 14, 2020 at 9:55:45 PM UTC, Robert Stolorow wrote:Hello all, Attached below is my brief essay using Heidegger in the struggle against evasion of climate change. Because of my medical condition I was not
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/5502/) - Written By: Tim Hyde f.y.i. This isn't out quite yet, but for those of you interested, I'm sure it will shed light on some of these issues. (I think the Hardback is due in Sept)Product DetailsTitle: Natality and FinitudePub. Date: November 02, 2010Publisher: Indiana University PressFormat: Paperback, 192ppSeries: Studies in Continental Thought SeriesISBN-13: 9780253222411ISBN: 0253222419SynopsisPhilosophers are accustomed
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/5504/) - Written By: Ferdi Memelli I think it would be a mistake to correlate birth and death as two parallel concepts, as the beginning and the end of a segment. Without denying the existential dimension of birth (and in Heidegger, we should distinguish clearly between birth and beginning), I think it is important to stress
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/5505/) - Written By: Charles Guignon Maybe I was supposed to send it to "heideggercircle@googlegroups.com"? If so, I'm chastised. Would you please cut it out and paste it and send it out, and I'll be more careful in the future? C (home) 16008 Gatwick Ct. Tampa, FL 33647 813/866-8223 University of South Florida 4202 E. Fowler
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/5507/) - Written By: Lou Agosta Do not overlook the contribution of Hannah Arendt . . . . the existential analysis of birth is provided by Arendt in her interpretation of St Augustine, Heidegger, and the human capability of beginning something new. That human beings
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/5509/) - Written By: Theodore Kisiel Charles Guignon is right on target in situating 'existential birth' in the introductory paragraph on historicality, #72, in SZ (373-4), by way of the recoiling holistic movement from one end of life to the other end, to its beginning in birth. Having first introduced thrownness in somewhat stark ontological terms as the "facticity of being delivered over to itself and
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/5513/) - Written By: Theodore Kisiel Bob, Precisely. By way of the protoaction of proper [eigentliche] historicality and so resolute openness to the holistic existential situation into which each of us happen to have been thrown/born, we are called upon to decide which of the precedented possibilities offered by our unique historical-communal world to make our very own and to pursue as (perhaps) lifetime
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/5514/) - Written By: Graham K. Henning Hi, I might be in over my head in this esteemed company, but I wonder about another possibility that is hinted at in some of these posts. The following struck me as I was reading Ted's post here. It has always struck me that Heidegger is caught by the
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/5516/) - Written By: Theodore Kisiel DA-SEIN is from the start introduced in its very be-ing as an ontologically individuated being to be addressed by the personal pronouns "I am" and "you are" on the basis of the guiding principal fact that "the be-ing about which this entity [called Dasein] is concerned in its very being is in
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/5518/) - Written By: Graham K. Henning Thank you Ted for taking time to respond and for your respectful response. I would like to suggest that Dasein is not quite what you claim. It is individual, I have no quarrel with that, but it is more. See Fried and Polt's translation of Intro to Metaphysics. Dasein
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/5519/) - Written By: Ferdi Memelli I think so far Jean Beaufret's interpretation of Dasein is the only one that really nails down the meaning of Dasein in Heidegger. Dasein is not being-there, but being-the-there, or " tre-le-l ", in an active sense of the verb, as in "eating the meal". Being and Time makes this
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/5520/) - Written By: Anne O'Byrne Dear all, I hesitate to think of absolute birth as ultimate thrownness, and indeed I wonder if birth is not what interrupts absolutes and always gets in the way of our attempts to sustain the ontological difference. Of course when Heidegger refers in SZ to our stretching along between birth
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/7120/) - Written By: dweinberger Richard, Can you say more about what you don't find persuasive? I'm very curious because I value your insight, and because I've found Andy Clark's book Being There (and this article) to be quite helpful in seeing how we are "there" not just cognitively but in a cognitively embodied way. I
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/7121/) - Written By: ERIC J SANDBERG David: Clark and Chalmers failed to note that their subjects were eating apples and didn't give it a 'second' thought. Da-sein is not cognitive.Thanx for the onput,E
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/7122/) - Written By: Ingvild Torsen Those here interested in Extended Mind (of which Panpsychism is a version) might enjoy this parody making the rounds on the net today:http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/hot-thought/201310/the-extended-breath Best,Ingvild Torsen
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/7124/) - Written By: dweinberger From my point of view, Clark and Chambers (C&C) are trying to help non-Heideggerians get to the concept of Being-in-the-world. I can see why Heideggerians would find their conclusion to be trivial. But I don't think it's trivial to those who are convinced that the mind is locked in the skull.
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/7126/) - Written By: eric d. meyer Dear Heideggerians: I appreciate these attempts to sort out exactly what the Anglo-American concepts of "external mind," "embodied mind," "panpsychism" and "proto-panpsychism" are really about... Which only further convince me that there's a whole lot of terminological confusion here. In this respect, my question could have been rephrased as:
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/7560/) - Written By: Babette Babich Thank you Richard for sharing the Chronicle article (lodged behind a paywall as it is). But thank you even more for pointing to the very glaring non sequitur (to me) of the Bremen lectures reference. I've written on that a half dozen times, so I won't repeat my reading
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/10618/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan Thanks, Alberto. I lean in the direction of your question and statement, but could you help with some ballpark delineations (if not "definitions")? "Politics": Of course there's the French distinction of "le" and "la" when it comes to "politique." But there's also Aristotle's delineation of "the political," which seems to
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/10622/) - Written By: David Kleinberg-Levin The list of terms Heidegger leaves "not entirely clear" keeps on growing! Perhaps not as basic, but certainly more significant, are the constellastion of terms centered on "Geschick" (which sometimes means destiny, but sometimes clearly does not, yet it's all too frequently interpreted, with talk of a sending or giving,
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/10623/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan Dear Alberto, An intriguing suggestion. We might hope that someone would take on that task. But as regards Heidegger himself, you're right to put your suggestion in the subjunctive ("would have attempted"). It seems to me that in terms of (1) first-person experience (the starting and ending point of his
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/5492/) - Written By: Ferdi Memelli I think birth is a relative concept, whereas death, inspite of its relativity to birth, is an absolute one. There is no absolute event of birth, experienced as such by a human being, but there are, after the biological birth, so many little births and deaths. On the contrary, the
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/5493/) - Written By: Jennie I think Heidegger's examination of death was elegant. True.
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/5494/) - Written By: Jennie I would also like to post a poem in reply to Kim's. In the cold of the night, a baby comes forth into a culture. At once, however precious, he is traveling toward the inevitable death. A journey along a string, birth and death connected, traveling, avoiding, fleeing from the inevitable.
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/5499/) - Written By: Charles Guignon When Heidegger says that Dasein "stretches along between birth and death," he identifies "birth" as the "beginning", and says we need a full account of our "being-toward-the-beginning." (BT II.chap 5, sec. 72) Here, the "beginning" turns out to be heritage (Erbe). Finding oneself always already thrown contingently into the rich
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/5501/) - Written By: David Kleinberg-Levin But the strange thing about Heidegger's "existential phenomenology", if I may for the moment describe his SZ contribution in that way, is that he has absolutely no sense whatsoever of any DEVELOPMENTAL PROCESS taking place between birth and death, & offers no clews regarding how one might integrate natality and
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/5570/) - Written By: David Kleinberg-Levin Richard, you are raising a very provocative question when you introduce the matter of description. For some time now, I've believed that it is a mistake to think of Heidegger's phenomenology as purely or merely descriptive. In fact, I came to this insight, if that's what it is, when puzzled
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/5571/) - Written By: Christopher Ruth In the Thing, Heidegger says that beings have never yet been things. This suggests that it is a futural way of taking things. ________________________________________
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/5572/) - Written By: sorrowandsmiles To all --- I greatly appreciate your musings on das Ding, a text which I enjoy and have thought much about. I wonder if I might tack a question on the end of this fruitful and informative exchange. At the very end of das Ding, Heidegger offers an incomplete list of
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/5573/) - Written By: David Kleinberg-Levin Briefly to respond, since I have right now little time, I think my last remarks might provide a clue. It would have been troublesome for Heidegger had he begun seriously to ponder the implications of his gathering of the Fourfold with regard to mortals. God forbid that the thing might
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/6188/) - Written By: Raoni Padui Dear Prof. Sheehan, The long answer to your question would involve a series of caveats: a caveat about not thinking of "out-thereness" in such a way that Dasein is an active, constituting subject estranged from its experiential content, a caveat about the overly cognitive way of thinking the relation of
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/6189/) - Written By: eric d. meyer Pr. Sheehan et al: At risk of taking the discussion out of The Heidegger Circle (..and maybe not being taken entirely seriously!...) I'd just say your question points up a black hole or blind spot in MH's text. MH begins (ca. Sein und Zeit) thinking Dasein's self-disclosure of the
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/6963/) - Written By: Richard: You wrote a damn wonderful book about it. I hope there was something interesting in it. LOLAdmiring, E
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/6998/) - Written By: Christopher Ruth I again agree with Richard; also, I think it is possible (worth considering, anyway) that Heidegger means to say that it is of the nature of being to bring forth something (not necessarily, but factually, human being) in the manner of Dasein. Dasein is a component of being's manifestness, not
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/6993/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan Dear friends,Oh my -- it seems I may have upset some with my last 5-point post cocerning Richard's positions -- one called it "exceedingly personal. " I, however, saw it as part of a vigorous professional exchange and well within the boundaries of American and Oxford-style debate as practiced at
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/9586/) - Written By: Arkadi Choufrine Dear David-- My answer is the same. Yet this answer, on which we both agree, invalidates, in my view, your claim that Hd's use of metaphors is actually non-metaphysical, even if Hd himself intended it to be such."Poetizing," as I understand it, is the precisely the kind of writing that
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/9587/) - Written By: David Kleinberg-Levin Well, I am not inclined to suppose that "poetizing" writing intends to be poetry, or poesie, as such. What we take to be "poetizing" is writing that expresses its meaning, its sense, in an especially moving, satisfying way. Heidegger's poetizing is still, then, non-metaphysical in the requisite way, because it
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/9588/) - Written By: Arkadi Choufrine p.s. The whole point of any "rhetorical embellishment" is to express meaning in a way that moves the reader to experiential understanding of it.What is the difference, then, between rhetoric and "poetizing"? I fail to see how, except in real poetry, a non-rhetorical metaphor is possible. Especially, as Hd himself
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/9589/) - Written By: David Kleinberg-Levin Arkadi, it's not that there is necessarily any real difference between rhetorical, literary embellishment and poetizing, but rather, quite simply, that, when certain philosophers read Heidegger and come across what seem to be metaphors, they tend to think of the Sache as "merely rhetorical embellishment," rather than as Heidegger speaking
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/9590/) - Written By: David Kleinberg-Levin If indeed Heidegger actually claimed that non-metaphysical thinking is "the same" as poetry, and not "mere" poetizing, I cannot agree---unless "same" does not signify an identity, but something like venturing on the same path. David Kleinberg-Levin.
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/9591/) - Written By: Arkadi Choufrine p.p.s. I do not doubt that Hd's intention is to "transport, carry, or move us to a new place of experience and understanding." I am only saying that this is the intention of rhetoric as well. If rhetoric would achieve this goal, it would become great poetry. My question is
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/9592/) - Written By: David Kleinberg-Levin Well, I don't think so! Poetry and poetizing philosophy may venture on the same path as fellow-journeymen/women but poetry and poetizing philosophy will never be identical. David Kleinberg-Levin.
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/9593/) - Written By: David Kleinberg-Levin Well, Arkadi, we do simply differ here. I think Heidegger often (though not always) succeeds in taking us to a new place of experience & understanding, but this does not make his texts great poetry, even though that goal (an experiential shift or leap) is also the goal and achievement
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/9594/) - Written By: Arkadi Choufrine If I recall correctly, he claimed that it is the poet who is the real "thinker," not the (professional) philosopher.This seems to suggest that his eventual switch from philosophy to "thinking" implies a project to cross the chasm separating what he was doing from what, in his view, the poets
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/9595/) - Written By: David Kleinberg-Levin Arkadi:There are so many Davids participating in this Forum! You and everyone else needs to provide last names! I am assuming here you are directing your question to David Leech! David Kleinberg-Levin.
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/9596/) - Written By: David Kleinberg-Levin A very lively discussion on metaphor and the relation of thinking to poetry, as well as an equally engaging discussion of motility, have deflected a discussion of the clearing that my original posting regarding the clearing hoped to provoke. There is Tom Sheehan's position, that essentially identifies the clearing as
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/10189/) - Written By: David Kleinberg-Levin Yes, I'm familiar with that note. But it causes me to wonder whether Heidegger at some point changed his mind, or settled an ambiguity he was struggling with, realizing that, in his various invocations of "Ereignis," he might have, over time, swung back and forth between thinking of "Ereignis" as
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/6157/) - Written By: eric d. meyer Hi Leslie: Yes, I think I was trying to say that when "we" talk about "The Question of Being" as "The Question of the 'Meaning' of Being," "we" should try to be clear whether we're talking about "Sinn" or "Bedeutung" (roughly, "sense" or "signification"). And that MH does use
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/6158/) - Written By: Charles Guignon The discussion has been fascinating. But at the risk of sounding simple-minded, might I suggest we try some pheneomenology? I have a comportment toward my shirt. I might ask about the being of this entitiy. The question might lead me to ask about the meaning of its Being. That question
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/6159/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan Dear Charlie,This is helpful – thank you. Just some queries:By wearing it, you would seem to be taking the shirt as ready-to-hand rather than as present-at-hand, and hence as a piece of “equipment.” This means that you hardly notice it as you go about your day.But on reflection – that
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/6160/) - Written By: nate zuckerman Hi All, I agree with the point below about wearing the shirt being an example of understanding it as ready-to-hand. But I am wary of (and I presume Tom did not mean to suggest) the implication that the shirt only gets its meaning in a full or 'proper' sense only
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/6161/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan Dear Nate,Thanks for these points. I find myself in agreement (I think!) and have merely annotated your posting with some ruminations, below.TomFrom: heideggercircle@googlegroups.com [mailto:heideggercircle@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of nate zuckerman
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/6162/) - Written By: nate zuckerman Thanks Tom, and I take your annotations, below. I think what is coming out here is a difference in sense between our uses of 'conceptual' and 'grasping,' where I mean to use these in a wider sense, according to which there can be practical concepts and practical 'grasping' of meaning
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/6163/) - Written By: eric d. meyer Dear Francois et al: Thanks for your reply, which clarifies... I want to ask: So in English we have to "split the difference" between sens et siginification to "get" the precise meaning of JL Nancy's texts? But the two works give the impression of a radical difference! Which is
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/6164/) - Written By: eric d. meyer Hi again Francois et al: Yes, but... I wondering here about "mapping" the sens/signification dichotomy onto the "Sinn"/"Bedeutung" dichotomy (...not strictly as Heidegger uses it, but...). And I'd like to argue that Dasein's being-in-the-world structurally preeexists & subtends (...not only "signification," but...) the predication or production of "meaning" ("signifiance")
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/6165/) - Written By: eric d. meyer RESEND to Heidegger Circle:
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/6425/) - Written By: Bricker, Jeffrey Dear Forum Members, Like it or not, if enframing is the problem, then dwelling is the solution. The “cash value” of the concept of dwelling is doubted by some of you. The most sustained attempt to explore the implications of this notion for praxis, that I’m aware of, is in
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/6428/) - Written By: Henry Dicks To echo Richard Polt s idea of "cells of resistance", here s a similar idea from the contemporary French philosopher, Edgar Morin: We must think that today the generative and regenerative forces are manifesting themselves in a dispersed and embryonic manner, but are still not managing to unfold. At the
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- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/7066/) - Written By: Dear Friends, Here is a version with the right quotation marks (I hope): It may provide a helpful nuance to note that Heidegger's application of the term "Dasein" with the implication of personhood is anticipated by Goethe, and specifically in connection with the allegory of "Sorge" in Goethe's Faust---an association that is
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/7067/) - Written By: eric d. meyer Dear Heideggerians: So much to respond to! So little time... I wanted to say: The best & simplest argument for leaving Dasein or Da-Sein untranslated is that MH's vocabulary is often an extended pun on Dasein/das Sein/ Das Seiende/die/Seienden/das Sein des Seienden & so on. Which, as Ellis points
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/7068/) - Written By: Christiane Bailey Hi Shane, I wrote my thesis at Universit de Montr al on the subject, but it is in French : At the Measure of Dasein. The Genesis of Existentials in Animal Life (Heidegger, 1919-1927). http://christianebailey.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/Bailey_Heidegger_AnimalDasein.pdf I have presented part of my third chapter at the Heidegger circle in 2011: http://christianebailey.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/Genesis_of_existentials_in_Animal_Life_BAILEY.pdf In his
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/7069/) - Written By: Shane Ewegen Christaine: Thank you so much for the very helpful email, and for sharing your work. This gives some excellent background to this problem. Have you seen Anderew Mitchell's paper in the 2011 Gatherings on animality in late Heidegger? If so, what are your thoughts about this: does Heidegger reconsider, in
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/7070/) - Written By: eric d. meyer Dear Christiane Bailey & HC: Thanks for a great post & a helpful discussion of Heidegger & "das Tier." I've covered some of this stuff in Questioning Martin Heidegger (Univ Press 2013). And Giorgio Agamben has a book (The Open: Man & Animal) on the topic, which (I'm sure
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/8319/) - Written By: ERIC J SANDBERG Did I think I was through with Dasein (generic meaning). Or should I say, did I think Dasein was through with me? Mark a 'seventh' (sous rature) instance, 'futural' Da-sein. "Da-sein, taken in the sense of the other beginning, is still altogether strange to us" [Neu, 234]. Strange indeed!
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/8320/) - Written By: ERIC J SANDBERG Dear Friends: No takers on 'aletheia?" No surprise. How about Da-sein? First some related clarification. The two provisos to 'Greek' aletheia made (thought in the direction of be-ing, and highlighting the language privative), aletheia can be understood -- let me soften the formula only slightly -- as Richard C.
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/9815/) - Written By: antoniouk Dear Alberto (if I may), many thanks for forwarding Carlo Galli's article. I have translated parts of the article. I will forward them later. Many thanks again and best wishes, Antonio 2015-12-14 17:31 GMT+00:00 Moreiras, Alberto : Thanks a lot, Philipppe. Yes, I actually think "sway of usage" is less bad
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/7073/) - Written By: David Kleinberg-Levin David Leech is asking the Heidegger Circle membership: "Has anyone ever come across anything resembling a sociology ( or theory) of Heidegger scholarship?" This is an intriguing question! The result of such research might, however, be disconcerting, even shocking, in a number of ways I can imagine. But I assume
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/7076/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan Dear Laurence, Just a thought or two about your recent post to Reg: (1) Does Heidegger "reject" the subject-object distinction or, rather, argue that it is not fundamental enough? [Diese Subjekt-Objekt-Beziehung ] bleibt aber eine -- obzwar in ihrer Faktizit t unantastbare -- doch gerade deshalb recht verh ngnisvolle Voraussetzung,
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/10092/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan Dear Laurence Sorry to have missed your point. I'm on the road now, so please excuse my brevity. I insert my responses below Tom
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/10093/) - Written By: Arkadi Choufrine Dear Tom-- Again, I can't refrain from interfering. You cite: "Dieses Seiende [= "Mensch"] fassen wir terminologish als 'Dasein.'" (SZ 11.35-36) Ok, but how do you understand this? (1) every human being digests food; (2) "Dasein" is just another term for human being=>(3) digesting food is one of Dasein's way
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/10094/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan Dear Arkadi, Is digesting food essential to being a human being? I would think so. Tom
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/10095/) - Written By: Arkadi Choufrine Dear Tom-- I agree that is essential for a human (or any other) animal. Yet I doubt that it is a mode of Dasein's existence. And for a simple reason: digestion is never, strictly speaking, "mine." ~Arkadi
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/10096/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan Right. Richard Polt remarked recently on the autonomic nerve system. Tom
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/10097/) - Written By: Christopher Ruth Just remember, we don't eat because we have a stomach, we have a stomach because we eat.
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/10098/) - Written By: Arkadi Choufrine "Because" may mean so many different things.....
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/10100/) - Written By: Arkadi Choufrine Phenomenologically, there has been an "evolution" only "because" our Dasein had been once awakened in some monkey.
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/10101/) - Written By: Christopher Ruth Yeah, I was mostly just joking though....
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/10102/) - Written By: antoniouk Dear all, I've found the discussion very interesting yet misleading. In Being and Time (p. 27), Heidegger famously states: "This entity which each of us is himself and which includes inquiring as one of the possibilities of its Being, we shall denote by the term Dasein." (emphasis added) It seems obvious
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/10104/) - Written By: Arkadi Choufrine Dear Antonio--- I would not disagree with anything you've stated. However, to complement your # 5, although "the question of the origin/emergence of human life or culture is not a question which can be dealt with philosophically," the question of the necessary conditions of the possibility of the emergence of
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/10105/) - Written By: antoniouk Dear Laurence, thanks for this. However, even though the translation can be misleading, my point was an epistemological one. In my view, Heidegger did not believe that there are humans, along with Daseine, animals, etc. and that is possible to define the essence of Dasein. Of course, Dasein is not an
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/10106/) - Written By: antoniouk Dear Arkadi, thanks for this. Yes, agreed. One of the modes...the idea of evolution can be "de-construct" as one among many metaphysical stages in the definition of "the human"...However, the Origin ( with capital "O", understood as origins of life, culture, consciousness of death as finitude and threshold, etc.) is, I
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/10108/) - Written By: Babette Babich Because the monkey, we know, never had a stomach. And never evolved. Right.
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/10109/) - Written By: Arkadi Choufrine Dear Babette-- Only when there are humans there had been an evolution of the monkey (or anything whatsoever). A good Kantian cannot think otherwise :) ~Arkadi
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/10110/) - Written By: Babette Babich Convolution Babette Babich Fulbright Fellow , Humboldt University, Berlin Fordham Faculty Fellowship Leave: Fall 2015-Summer 2016 Professor of Philosophy Fordham University, The Jesuit University of New York Executive Editor: New Nietzsche Studies Web Page: http://faculty.fordham.edu/babich/ The Hallelujah Effect: Philosophical Reflections on Music, Performance Practice, and Technology(Surrey: Ashgate, 2013) Professor Babette
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/10111/) - Written By: Babette Babich But see here, including, in particular, the section and context referenced at the end of footnote 3. https://www.academia.edu/9181169/NIETZSCHE_AND_OR_VERSUS_DARWIN Babette Babich Fulbright Fellow , Humboldt University, Berlin Fordham Faculty Fellowship Leave: Fall 2015-Summer 2016 Professor of Philosophy Fordham University, The Jesuit University of New York Executive Editor: New Nietzsche Studies Web
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/7078/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan Dear Laurence, I'm not sure I understand your point. 1. It would seem that Dasein is definitely a something, a τόδε
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/11777/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan Dear Richard, Nor do I seek any further discussion with you on this. So: If I promise not to breathe another word in response to what you might share, could you, beyond just referring us to your texts, state your reasons against von Herrmann's careful arguments that the Da of
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/11779/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan Dear Larry, Thanks for your message and the passage you cite. The following texts, early and late (and there are many more), do seem to lend support to von Herrmann's argument that the Da of Da-sein of the early work is die Lichtung des Seins of the later texts. Tom
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/5789/) - Written By: Miles Groth Having attended these meetings since 1976, I would very much like to see the proceedings made available in digital form. It's easily done.
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/6097/) - Written By: Bricker, Jeffrey Dear Forum Members, For what it’s worth, I’m also under the impression that interest in Heidegger’s thought, at least in the USA, peaked sometime in the 1980s and has been in steady decline since. I work in an academic library and whoever told me this was speaking about the number
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/6101/) - Written By: I attended a seminar hosted by Dan Zahavi at the University of Copenhagen a while back. After a puzzling paper that was an attempt to engage analytic philosophy from a phenomenological position, but succeeded in only undermining phenomenological principles, I was told by one of the participants that funding for phenomenology is
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/6102/) - Written By: Bricker, Jeffrey Richard, Thanks for the correction. Jeff Bricker
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/6103/) - Written By: Bricker, Jeffrey Hi Pete, I’m not surprised by the 2010 survey results. If the books on the hold shelf here at the main library at OSU are any indication, Foucault is being read and discussed everywhere—Women’s studies, History, English, and Sociology. I know that any undergraduate English major can get a degree
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/6106/) - Written By: Jordan Collins I don't know about Heidegger's incomplete translation, but here is a recent and skillfully done translation of the Tao-Te-Ching by a Heideggerian with the Chinese text on facing pages and annotations throughout: http://www.mta.ca/~cwelch/Laocius.pdf Best, Jordan
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/7058/) - Written By: Shane Ewegen Lawrence: Thank you for this very helpful email. What you have said squares with GA 18, as well, where there seems to be a very fluid use of 'Dasein' — a use that, nonetheless, never seems to describe living beings as mere 'things' devoid of world. Shane.
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/7059/) - Written By: Cathy Leblanc My dear Friends, There's a question I wonder about and which refers to the relation between Dasein and world : can Dasein exist alone on the one hand and the world alone, as well ? Is there any case in which this could be ? Best wishes, Cathy Leblanc Ma
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/7984/) - Written By: Henry Dicks Here's an alternative glimpse into the future: a generalized world of automated trading in which evolving computer programs run/exploit the global economy... http://www.theguardian.com/business/2014/jun/07/inside-murky-world-high-frequency-trading
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/10213/) - Written By: Arkadi Choufrine Dear Tom--- I apologize for the impoliteness of answering a question with a question, yet can you be so kind as to refer me to any passages in Hd that might suggest that there was for him one singular Sache selbst? Thanks. ~Arkadi
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/10214/) - Written By: David Kleinberg-Levin Larry: I am wondering whether we can make sense of the "Seinsgeschichte" working with your definition of "being" as "the temporal structure of the emergence of meaning." Then the "history of being" would be a narrative, or story, interpreting variations in the emergence of meaning within that temporal structure over the course
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/10215/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan Dear Kyle, Thanks for your reply. The seminar wants the first option you mention: "What is the thing itself in the context of Heidegger's thought?" Answering this question would usually involve an explication of Heidegger's existential-analysis, or his phenomenological project more generally. Here, it would be quite appropriate to insist
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/10216/) - Written By: Arkadi Choufrine Dear Tom--- Given this formulation, I would say that Hd's Sache selbst is a further elaboration on what had been indicated by Kant as Ding an sich, i.e., roughly speaking: that which, by concealing itself, makes it possible for anything to be revealed. ~Arkdai
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/10218/) - Written By: Kyle T. Dear Tom, I'm sorry to say I'm not familiar enough with Heidegger's corpus to know where exactly where you're drawing from (if you could point me in the right direction(s) I could perhaps answer more thoroughly). Nevertheless, I'll give it my best shot. The "thing itself" arises in the context
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/10501/) - Written By: Gregory Fried I agree that we should steer clear of the arbitrary and the groundless, and this does have something to do with the legacy within which we always already live. (Again, Larry Hatab's Ethics and Finitude is pertinent.) The trick is that once one concedes that some aspect of the legacy is
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/11619/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan Dear James, Thanks very much for your observations. It seems we will have to agree to disagree on what you call the "event character" of Ereignis. I've tried to make an argument that "Ereignis" as a technical term is based on Hd's reading of "Eignung"/ , and I've grounded that
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/12889/) - Written By: Babette Babich Congratulations, Richard!
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/6334/) - Written By: Richard Hearn Richard: Do you (or Tom)recognize in Heidegger a "phenomenological" difference (Reiner Schurman)that would be logically prior to the "ontological" difference Heidegger sought to overcome? As I understand this term, the phenomenological difference is a "difference" between the "initial" eclipse of the nothing in which beings are let to arise
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/8494/) - Written By: gordonhasmail Isn't that an admission of not knowing? Like the answer about what is 4? 2 and 2. But, in so saying you do admit the correctness of the orientation. We go beyond the categories, as external and Aristotelian, and as of cognition and geist? --- It seems here we have a split: the
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/8858/) - Written By: Kyle T. Dear Tom, This is an excellently-written article, and one that I don't feel nearly informed enough to intelligently comment on in regards to its substance, so I'll restrict my responses to the mundane. There is a spacing issue on page 15 that reads "completelymisinterprets"; unless, of course, in the spirit
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/8859/) - Written By: Ian Moore Dear Tom, Thanks for sharing your fine critique of Faye. For the sake of accuracy, I thought I'd let you know that Uexk ll did edit Chamberlain's Natur und Leben posthumously in 1928 (Munich: F. Bruckmann). The two men were in correspondence for some time, already in 1914 if not
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/8921/) - Written By: Christophe Perrin Dear All, Here is for Vergil : GA 4, 33 and GA 34, 64. Richard is totally right. C. -----Message d'origine----- De : heideggercircle@googlegroups.com [mailto:heideggercircle@googlegroups.com] De la part de Polt, Richard Envoy : samedi 16 mai 2015 16:29 : david leech Cc : heideggercircle@googlegroups.com Objet : Re: [Heidegger Circle Forum]
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/9144/) - Written By: Anthony Sanzone Arkadi:I saw the film but I do not see the allusion to Barret's book "Irrational man."It would help me if you please give some specific examples .Thanks Tony s From: heideggercircle@googlegroups.com [mailto:heideggercircle@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of achoufri
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/9145/) - Written By: Arkadi Choufrine Tony--I have not seen the film (personally, I can't stand Woody Allen), but from what I know the connection seems clear: the protagonist is an "existentialist"-- both in terms of his academic field (Heidegger) and in terms of "suspension of the ethical" in life. ~Arkadi
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/9146/) - Written By: Arkadi Choufrine Reg--It's an exact reversal of the "Match Poing," where the protagonist's inspiration was also Raskolnikov yet he got away with it, also through a deus ex machina.Wood Allen seems to be deeply troubled by Russian classics :))See his "Love and Death" (1975) ~Arkadi
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/9659/) - Written By: Arkadi Choufrine I would clarify my question a bit. Destiny (in its "simpleness") is found in one's authentic being towards one's death. Yet being-towards-death is constitutive of Dasein's existence, and is Hd's explication of one's being-towards-one's-end. On the other hand, what is constitutive of Dasein's existence is being-towards-one's-self (GA 26), which implies
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/9660/) - Written By: Arkadi Choufrine "Burt's involvement with EST assertiveness training back in the 1980's and his use of the "for-the-sake-of-which" in that training"-- Wow... Was he involved as a trainer or a trainee? And what was the controversy about, if I may ask? The Landmark (formerly EST) is unabashedly Heideggerian, of course; and sure,
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/9661/) - Written By: David Kleinberg-Levin Dreyfus pretty much limits himself to Being and Time---and even then, only to the first part, leaving out all the time- and history-related material in the second part. Thius it is not impossible to read Heidegger as some kind of pragmatist. As for pop psychology, one needs to know that,
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/9662/) - Written By: Arkadi Choufrine "Dreyfus pretty much limits himself to Being and Time---"-- I, for one, would not see devoting one's life to the unpacking of this great (even if truncated) work as a "limitation." Also, he is not completely ignoring the Division II (he even suggests how its chapters are to be reordered!).
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/9663/) - Written By: David Kleinberg-Levin Excuse me, Arkadi, you are being extremely generous and charitable. And I assume your defense of his "reordering" of Division II is tongue-in-cheek irony, because it's through and through nothing but a crass reductionism of precisely the kind that Heidegger devoted a lifetime to repudiating. DKL
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/9664/) - Written By: Arkadi Choufrine Dear David (K.-L.)-- I am at a loss what in my words could possibly suggest to you that I am "defending" anything (whether ironically or not). I though it to be obvious that reordering the chapters of the work that is beyond one's understanding is sheer hubris. Also, when I
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/9665/) - Written By: Arkadi Choufrine This having been said, to do better than Dreyfus school one is to give an articulate alternative interpretation of "for-the-sake-of-which." And I do not see this having been done. This was the point of my initial question. ~Arkadi
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/9666/) - Written By: ERIC J SANDBERG
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/9667/) - Written By: Arkadi Choufrine Dear Eric-- (1) I was not saying that anything was "wrong." (2) "I have to cover up the windows (towards-which) assemble hammer and nails (in-order-to) to secure the house against the hurricane (fore-the-sake-of-which). " In my view, this is NOT what Hd calls "for-the-sake-which." The term designated the ULTIMATE telos
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/9668/) - Written By: ERIC J SANDBERG Arkadi: More confusion on my part. Dasein doesn't and can't have an "ultimate telos." It's finite. Even in a fulfilling of an authentic possibility it REMAINS possibility 'Destiny' is not an absolute but a nexus of possibilities very much determined by 'world.' (Which, at the ontic level is time
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/9669/) - Written By: Arkadi Choufrine "Dasein doesn't and can't have an "ultimate telos." It's finite."-- Dear Eric, if you look up "ultimate" and "telos", you might see that to have an ultimate telos (lat. "finis") is precisely what "being finite" is. "even in a fulfilling of an authentic possibility it REMAINS possibility"-- Sure. What made
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/9670/) - Written By: ERIC J SANDBERG Arkadi: Point 1: To cute by half, If all your saying is that the ultimate telos is biological death, so be it. Neither 'death' nor 'finitude' point to biological death in "B&T." Point 2: Because your e-mail implies that there's some 'ultimate' (highest) task which we each have to
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/9671/) - Written By: Arkadi Choufrine Eric: (1) No, I am NOT saying that the ultimate telos, for Hd, is biological death. And I do not see how this can be possibly inferred from my words. I am not offering any interpretation of the "for-the-sake-of which." I am only saying that I am not happy with
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/9675/) - Written By: Arkadi Choufrine There is a thin line between communicating and pandering to a particular target group. But I do admire about Dreyfus what he does for undergrads, as available in podcasts. Perhaps because there is an undergrad still alive in me. ~Arkadi
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/10694/) - Written By: Paul Anthony Hi, A further thought. Please excuse me if my current understanding is incomplete - I have not completed reading the volume of the Black Notebooks that has been translated into English. Does Heidegger attack individual Jews or does he attack what he perceives as
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/10697/) - Written By: Paul Anthony Dear Professor Kleinberg-Levin, I agree with you. The haters in the world are not going to worry about the too-fine distinction that I suggested.
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/10698/) - Written By: Gregory Fried Thanks, Paul and David. I would also say that this statement is not one about Heidegger himself or his thought or the nature of his anti-Semitism, but rather a defense of the right of a scholar to interpret these without fear of being the target of threats and violence. Best,
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/10699/) - Written By: Gregory Fried Thank you, David. To be very clear: it was Richard Polt who drafted the statement. But I agree: it's good! Best, Greg Gregory Fried Professor and Chair Philosophy Department Suffolk University gfried@suffolk.edu
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/10703/) - Written By: R. Dye I agree that the distinction under discussion is not of tremendous importance in such a statement. Still, while living in Berlin, my wife and I felt that we could reliably distinguish attitudes toward Turkish immigrants according to whether they were referred to as "Tuerken" (i.e. the noun--used, we felt, pejoratively)
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/10705/) - Written By: R. Dye Dear Richard, Point taken, and I agree. But isn't it a relevant question here what Heidegger's attitude and what he objected to actually was? When he (erroneously, to be sure) speaks of the "Bodenlosigkeit" of the Jews, is he actually blaming individual Jews, i.e. his famous "Jewish children"? Ellis
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/10707/) - Written By: Michael Molinaro Fully supportive of both this idea and the statement in particular as written.
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/10708/) - Written By: Joachim Kübler I respectfully concur.JoachimVon: 'Michael Molinaro' via Heidegger Circle Forum Antworten an: Michael Molinaro Datum: Donnerstag, 28. Juli 2016 um 22:32 An: Gregory Fried Cc: Heidegger Circle Forum Betreff: Re: [Heidegger Circle Forum] Draft Statement of Support for Donatella Di Cesare Fully supportive of both this idea
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- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/11315/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan . Dear Richard,Thanks very much. I find nothing to disagree with and everything to affirm in what you write -- exccept "no at all." Hd, of course, has his own meaning of when it comes to Dasein: it's an ontological word, one that names the being of Dasein, which is
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/11320/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan Thank you, Richard! There's lots here, and I'll take some time to think about it. But for the moment: "Dasein itself, and the Da, are not an "always already" fact." If the Da were not given, even when I'm inauthentic, it seems1. here would be no Geworfenheit or Entwurf2. there
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/11325/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan Dear friends, Richard points to Hd's (extreme) positions on Da-sein in the 1930s, positions that in light of his later work seem, at the very least, incautious and hyperbolical, and at their worst, downright wrong. Beginning with "Zeit und Sein" (1962) and continuing over the next fifteen years, Heidegger takes
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/11591/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan Dear James, Cut out? Aren't you copied on all the Forum emails? I believe there is only one of your posts that I haven't yet responded to (yesterday's, 12 November), That's for two reason: 1. I'm still wresting with what you mean in that post of 12 November: 1.1 "If
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/11877/) - Written By: Reginald Lilly Hi Larry, About your two rhetorical sentences: "Would the world be meaningful without Dasein? No. If all Daseins disappeared would the universe disappear?" The effect of this is to neatly separate Dasein and the universe of things that won't disappear (i.e., subsist independently of Dasein) if/when Dasein disappears. Your separation
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/11988/) - Written By: Hi Mo, If I understand your question correctly, I would recommend Lin Ma's Heidegger on East West Dialogue: Anticipating the Event (Routledge, 2008). Whether or not this accords with your sense of a "Heideggerian account" I can't say, but Ma is very clear that this is an attempt to contribute to Heidegger studies and
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/7869/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan Dear Larry, Many thanks for this clear and helpful text on . Attached are my own musings on the term--not as an ontic phenomenon but rather (when "retrieved" by Heidegger from the Greeks) as yet another way of discussing Da-sein's fundamental condition of Bestimmitsein / Geworfenheit / Ereignetsein. (The text
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/7871/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan Dear Laurence, The "becoming" I have in mind is what SZ refers to in passages such as the following, which are focused on Dasein and its Werden: its existential Seink nnen as auf sich zukommen (which gets doubled in Dasein's existentiel sich auf sich zukommen lassen), issues that are existential-daseinsm
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/7873/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan Dear Laurence, I'm traveling now, so please excuse a brief reply (below) to your helpful mail. Perhaps we can pursue this further in November. Best wishes, Tom 1. You're exactly right: The matter requires some further thought, and specifically 1.1 re "das Dasein is to be understood not as the
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/7875/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan Dear Laurence, Yes, I agree: we're sometimes close, sometimes fruitfully at quite a remove. Some thoughts, below. Best wishes, Tom 1. re "not even the word Sein" ". . . about whether or not what concerned him could even be called 'being' any longer) as invalidating his reading or calling
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/6498/) - Written By: catherine gnatek I've also found a number of Heidegger's texts in German (as well as English) in pdf form on Scribd.com, there is a charge for extended access, but as I recall it wasn't too expensive. Cathy Gnatek On Friday, February 15, 2013 3:01:01 PM UTC-6, tsheehan wrote:Dear friends, I have
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/7800/) - Written By: Sidney Farb Thanks for that, Dr. Bricker. Are you advancing all of those as candidates for works every Heidegger scholar ought to be familiar with, or are some of them just very good books that were helpful to you? I know the distinction isn't necessarily easy to make, but I think it
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/7801/) - Written By: Sidney Farb By the way, sorry I'm posting as Sidney Farb, my real name is Christopher Ruth. At some point I signed up for some Google Plus thing, and they changed my name on everything Google-related to my real name. I do not want my real name on the internet, since I
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/7803/) - Written By: Mason, Emma Dear Christopher, I would certainly second Jeff Bricker's suggestions, especially Bruns' Heidegger and Homecoming. I would also like to propose Richard Capobianco's Engaging Heidegger (University of Toronto Press, 2010), Mark Wrathall's Heidegger and Unconcealment (Cambridge University Press, 2010) and Andrew Mitchell's Heidegger Among the Sculptors (Stanford University Press, 2010). These books have been invaluable to my undergraduate seminar
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/7804/) - Written By: dweinberger I'm finding this to be a very useful discussion, and I'm certain the wider public would, too. It cries out for being posted in a public space, where Circle members can post their suggestions, comment on them, and discuss them. Many people would find this a valuable resource. A Google Doc
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/7806/) - Written By: Mason, Emma David's suggestion for a google docs sounds great, especially for general access. Apologies too for my mistake with Bruns' title in my previous post (I blame a long day of marking) - I of course meant Bruns' Heidegger's Estrangements: Language, Truth and Poetry in the Later Writings (Yale UP, 1989). A challenging read, but
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/7807/) - Written By: Sidney Farb Well, this little project has seemingly stalled out before getting out of the gate...I waited a while to post this lament in case anyone was still thinking about it. I think this would be a really important list to get together, and I want to try to convince people to
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/7808/) - Written By: Dana Belu I support adding Dreyfus' BITW. Also, I would also like to recommend including the following oldies but goodies: J.F. Lyotard's - Heidegger & "the jews"M. Zimmerman's - Heidegger's Confrontation with ModernityT. Kisiel & J. Buren's - Reading Heidegger from the Start: Essays in his Earliest Thought Others? Cheers,DB
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/7811/) - Written By: Henry Dicks Hi All, Personally, I'm sceptical of establishing a "canon" of secondary texts on Heidegger (and, more generally, with the idea of "Heidegger scholarship"). A Heidegger canon risks setting up one way of reading Heidegger as primary and another as secondary. Environmental readings of Heidegger, for example, may easily come to
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/7812/) - Written By: Babette Babich In my view, and this principle informs my own work, the only thing any scholar should ever do is to read and read and read: as widely as possible--and yet more broadly still. But, of course, scholars no longer do that... As Heidegger himself long ago complained: the scholars of
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/7813/) - Written By: Sidney Farb Bob, Thanks for the nominations (and Dana also). I don't think on or off the mark is the relevant criterion here. A secondary source doubtless can become obsolete for that reason, but I don't see that this has been the fate of the Dreyfus book so far. It still seems
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/7814/) - Written By: Sidney Farb Henry, I think your first concern is valid and important. I wouldn't want a list to become prescriptive in that way, but to be a basis from which everyone departs and, as books come in and out of favor, a list that would change. I wouldn't think anyone would be
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/7815/) - Written By: Sidney Farb Babette, I wasn't thinking that anyone would confine themselves to the list. And I don't mean it to reflect what's central to my (or any other individual's) Heidegger research, but to be a middle in which people could meet. Chris
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/7816/) - Written By: David Kleinberg-Levin For what it is worth, I strongly agree with Babette's comments, registered below, and with the similar opinion expressed by Henry Dicks. Permit me now to observe, as befits this particular insurgency against the normalization of Heidegger's thought, that it is quite possible for the finest thinking after Heidegger (in
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/7817/) - Written By: Nate Zuckerman I share this ideal of a good reader of philosophy, but so far I'm not convinced that the remarks below are anything but the defensive derision of a straw man.
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/7818/) - Written By: Henry Dicks Hi Chris, I liked Babette's point 'tell me the Heidegger books you read and I'll tell you what sort of reader you are'. I've got my own take on Heidegger like everyone on this forum. The idea that a Heideggerian or a Heidegger scholar or whatever should read certain books
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/7821/) - Written By: Sidney Farb Hmm, these objections had never occurred to me when I had my idea. Honestly I never considered the possibility that creating a list would imply that things not on it weren't important, I just thought it would be good to know what the basic texts most people think it's important
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/7822/) - Written By: Sidney Farb Actually, I don't even know if that's worth doing, since people can just ask around about topics in an ad hoc manner. I will continue to work on the field list if people continue to contribute ideas, otherwise it is dead, I suppose.
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/8024/) - Written By: Sidney Farb I have an interpretation of all this, but I do not have texts at hand to back it up at the moment, and this is probably far more schematic than an examination of the texts will bear. It's based on my reading of Heidegger as a whole as much as
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/8025/) - Written By: Christopher Ruth OK, I dropped Google Plus so now I can switch this email account back to my name. I am Christopher Ruth, not Sidney Farb (I didn't want a presence on the web until I have a decent job, and Google Plus forced me to use the same name for everything).
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/8468/) - Written By: gordonhasmail One can corroborate the part about him being into Klee with a Google search. About cinema I have heard nothing, but then, admittedly I never dreamed Kafka was a great film watcher until it became clear and obvious in 'Hegelian' fashion (after the fact.) There is 'another side' to the nature
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/9858/) - Written By: R. Dye Dear Tom, Thanks for the summary paragraphs. I wonder if you might send us an additional word about "Ereignis,"* which, whatever the combined meanings of "appropriation," etc. must still be an opening, therefore a happening, not just a static, timeless openness (?). In addition to the cogent and convincing explanations
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/9859/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan Dear Alberto, Thanks for your mail, which reaches me while I'm out of the country. Your questions are challenging, and I'll need more time (and resources) in order to properly engage them. Could you send me a heads-up email in the second week of January when the new academic quarter
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/5771/) - Written By: Jim Clark That's an excellent point, Pete. Heidegger's ongoing interest in Japanese initiatives does include some fascination with the frisson of such work as Kurosawa's Rashomon. But such an episode would be folded into his ongoing preoccupation with onto-theo-logic. As such the, artwork would be re-routed from any serious breakaway prospects. It
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/5772/) - Written By: Christen and Christopher Yates Even if Heidegger himself was disinclined to treat film per se, I don't see why we cannot work out a translation between his thought and a phenomenology or ontology of cinema. For what it's worth (and it may well be little), here is a link to an article
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/5773/) - Written By: Jim Clark Christopher, I fully agree that there is in the fundamental ontology of Heidegger powerful equipment for plumbing the depths of cinema. I haven't yet given your paper, on the issue of convergence of film artist and viewer intent, enough time to reply in an intelligent way. But I have found
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/5774/) - Written By: J. Dear Colleagues, Thank you so much for these precious comments. After what I read here I think I'm moving on the right track with my paper. I hope I'll be able to share it with all of you when it's done. Yours, Juliana
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/5775/) - Written By: Jim Clark Christopher, Your paper, on "A Phenomenological Aesthetic of Cinematic 'Worlds,'" enters into territory that, as far as I'm concerned, couldn't be more up to the minute and challenging. The unique prospects, of "fusion" of hermeneutical horizons inherent in the commerce between films and viewers, are introduced with scholarly circumspection and
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/5776/) - Written By: Jim Clark In paragraphs three and four, the word, "writing" should be "righting."
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/5777/) - Written By: Christen and Christopher Yates Per the discussion of Heidegger and Film: Thank you, Jim, for your insightful remarks and for taking the time to wade through my article. Obviously the contemporary inclination to treat cinema as 'diversion', together with its commercial milieu, poses serious obstacles to our attempts to engage the art
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/5778/) - Written By: Jim Clark Chris, The considerations of your recent reply are very germane to the concerns of our dialogue. Heidegger s researches truly become indispensable where they spotlight the surprises in store for the investigation of dynamics (physis). He was very astute about the arts as the major forum for a wonderment having
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/5779/) - Written By: Jim Clark In paragraph 3, the phrase should be, cold-sweat-inducing phenomenon of "constitution"
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/5780/) - Written By: Jim Clark And the last paragraph should read, there are less insulting routes...
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/5781/) - Written By: Christen and Christopher Yates Jim et al, Thank you for these comments concerning the parameters of a point of departure into Heidegger and Film, especially for the specific films you mention. I am struck by your depiction of OWA as a 'scandal', and I think I understand your meaning - the depth
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/5782/) - Written By: J. Yates, I totally agree with you. In fact, I'm working on a paper about Bergman's The Seventh Seal and my argument consists in pointing out the poetic feature of Bergman's work. I'd be glad to talk about it as soon as I'm finished. By the way, are you familiar with Merleau-Ponty's
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/5783/) - Written By: Jim Clark Thanks, Chris, for your response to the matter of scandal. When referring to the scandalous nature of Heidegger s sense of the origin of the work of art, I was not concerned about unfinished efforts apropos of aletheia, in aesthetics and film programs, but, rather, the outright dismissal of that
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/6667/) - Written By: On Sunday, May 26, 2013 3:37:18 PM UTC-4, allen scult wrote:Dear Friends, At the beginning of Phenomenology of Religious Life, Heidegger says," I wish to increase and keep awake philosophy's need to be ever turning upon preliminary questions, so much so that it will indeed become a virtue." I've always been fascinated
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/7698/) - Written By: Babette Babich Dear Christophe,A review is in no wise the truth on a matter but one scholar's opinion. And one makes one's judgments on such judgments.Thus at the same time that I am persuaded that you make an excellent case(!) I am also sure that there are other reasons and we in
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/7699/) - Written By: Babette Babich Actually, Christophe, I sent a link to it earlier (again: here)And I agree with Richard, and would be keen to hear more Babette Babette Babich Professor of Philosophy Fordham University, The Jesuit University of New York Executive Editor: New Nietzsche Studies Web Page: http://faculty.fordham.edu/babich/ The Hallelujah Effect: Philosophical Reflections on
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/7700/) - Written By: Christophe Perrin Dear Babette,Thank you for these necessary reminders.Of course, a review is only a sight among others.But this sight, according to which Fran ois F dier’s translation of the Beitr ge (whose biggest merit is to exist!!!), is disappointing (I do not speak about the title), also because it does not
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/7701/) - Written By: Babette Babich Dear Christoph, I have been reading your essay (thank you so very much for the opportunity to look at it -- can you send me a pdf when it is in print?) and I, of course, agree with you about the translation of the title. But it also seems, from
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/7702/) - Written By: Christophe Perrin Dear Babette,Thanks so much for your attention, for your interest and for your reading.Thank you for your text too – excellent!I learnt enormously.I will be happy to see you in Messkirch.Kind regards,C.De : heideggercircle@googlegroups.com [mailto:heideggercircle@googlegroups.com] De la part de Babette Babich Envoy : mercredi 2 avril 2014 19:37 : Christophe Perrin
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/8063/) - Written By: Derek Smith Thank you very much for that careful elucidation. I found it very helpful!
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/8064/) - Written By: ERIC J SANDBERG
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/8349/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan Dear Jeff, Both Erschlossenheit and Entdecktheit are forms of dis-closure, - . However, the Erschlossenheit of ex-sistence (the dis-closedness of Da-sein) is very distinct from the pre-apophantic Ent-decktheit (un-coveredness) of things in the lived world of everyday concerns. The first is - -prime ( - -1), whereas the second is
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/10948/) - Written By: Gregory Fried Sean, I think David is right about the importance of this for Heidegger, but I do not know of any monograph-length study of the question. There are, in no particular order, a number of major philosophical questions at stake. One is what the role of etymology is in understanding words
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/10949/) - Written By: Sean Driscoll David, Thank you for your response. I want to agree with both of your points, but I have recently revisited Ricoeur's Rule of Metaphor where he argues that etymologizing is more of a creative, poetic endeavor (not unlike what Greg mentioned in his reply). My question, then, is how we
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/10950/) - Written By: Sean Driscoll Greg, First off, I have no response to the linguistic question of "being," and am grateful for the references. This is similar to Carnap's early criticism's of Heidegger. I suppose I have the same question in response to your post as I did for David; how can we recognize the
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/10951/) - Written By: Gregory Fried Sean, Excellent question! My short and thoroughly inadequate answer: The "actual" etymology should always serve as a provocation to the "mythic" etymology, and vice versa. Tom's al theia-3 (conventional truth as correspondence) should have some role to play in disciplining our forays into ruminations on al theia-2 and al theia-prime! But merely conventional truth cannot
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/12358/) - Written By: Dana, I'm pretty sure the woman in the front row, right, is Jeffner Allen (she's at SUNY Binghamton); and I'm also pretty sure that the women in the middle (shorter hair) is Annemarie Gethmann-Siefert, with her husband, Carl Friederich Gethmann, to her left, and Hans Seigfried (whose friends they both were),
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/12361/) - Written By: Seibert, Charles (seiberch) Reg, #32 is Charles Seibert. As I remember, this picture was taken on the front steps of a building on the campus of Loyola University of New Orleans, right next door to Tulane (the host institution for this meeting). Thanks for the opportunity to see this again. Peace, Charles
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/12362/) - Written By: Seibert, Charles (seiberch) Friends, Indeed, #32 is Charles Seibert. Thank you, Richard, for recognizing me. Peace, Charles Charles H. Seibert, Ph.D. Professor Emeritus of Philosophy McMicken College of Arts & Sciences University of Cincinnati
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/5719/) - Written By: David Weinberger Sorry to the The Guy Who Makes a Netiquette Point, but: When the matter is really between you and Richard, perhaps you could reply to him directly, rather than replying to everyone on the list? Not a big deal, of course. And obviously not everyone agrees on what netiquette is.
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/10512/) - Written By: David Kleinberg-Levin
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/10514/) - Written By: Gregory Fried I second the praise for Larry's Ethics and Finitude. It is a very fine example of what it can mean to think in conversation with Heidegger without being overly indebted to him. Refreshing and thought-provoking. Full disclosure -- I wrote a review of the book, which can be found here: https://www.academia.edu/2613531/Review_of_Lawrence_Hatabs_Ethics_and_Finitude_
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/10516/) - Written By: R. Dye Dear Richard, Very glad to read this comment (as well as many other recent posts by various contributors, especially the fine review by Greg Fried, which you posted). I was on the verge of pointing out (and herewith betray my resolution not to point out) what does not seem entirely
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/10518/) - Written By: Joachim Kübler Thanks for the tip, I sought for a long time for a book on this topic :-) Best, Joachim P.S. Already bought it via amazon. Am 13.06.2016 um 23:11 schrieb Gregory Fried : I second the praise for Larry's Ethics and Finitude. It is a very fine example of what it
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/12023/) - Written By: Gregory G. Fried This settles it: Attachments-120/SupermanvsTime021.pdf
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/5733/) - Written By: David Kleinberg-Levin To Robert Stolorow:I must respectfully disagree. No one, so far as I know, ever claimed that Heidegger "neglected the body", insofar as that means denying the body's importance or failing ever to refer to embodiment. What the critics are claiming correctly, justifiably, in my view is that he "neglected the
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/5734/) - Written By: David Kleinberg-Levin To Robert Stolorow:But I agree with your speculations regarding Heidegger's motives in addressing the issues before the Zollikon Seminars. David Kleinberg-Levin.
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/5735/) - Written By: sj arrien on that subject, one of the most compelling subject is certainly Didier Franck's classic:"Heidegger et le probl me de l'espace" --not sure it is translated in English though. Franck shows very clearly how and why space (body, incarnation, etc) can't be properly understood if submitted or reconducted to what would
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/5736/) - Written By: Miles Groth Erik Craig, Richard Askay and I will be discussing Boss and Heidegger this month in Chicago at a meeting of the Humanistic Psychology Division 32 of the American Psychological Association.
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/5737/) - Written By: Richard Hearn Frank’s “Being and the Living” essay on the disincarnation of Dasein as opposed to the body as incarnated life is translated in “Who Comes After the Subject?” published in 1991 by Routledge Press. In this essay, In this essay, Frank writes[S]ince temporality exclusively constitutes the meaning of the Being of
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/5740/) - Written By: David Kleinberg-Levin Robert:What you say is true, but how lucidly does Heidegger recognise this and how far does he unfold that connection between mood and embodiment? That's the question!David Kleinberg-Levin
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/5743/) - Written By: Richard Hearn Bob: Franck does not claim that time “disincarnates” Dasein but instead claims that the “ecstatic determination of man’s essence [as Dasein as temporal] implies the total exclusion of his live animality” and, according to Franck, to conceive “animality” as described by Heidegger in The Fundamental Concepts of Metaphysics is “to
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/5748/) - Written By: Richard Hearn Bob: Thanks for your thoughtful response and I do recommend reading Franck “in the flesh”. Like both of us, Franck is trying to address the problem of the body and its relation to Dasein. In his essay, Franck is not being critical of Heidegger but being critical of those who
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/5750/) - Written By: Seibert, Charles (seiberch) Friends,The recent exchange of emails on the Zollikon Seminars, especially on the status of embodiment, have been very pleasant to read. This is because I made an attempt, at the 10th Heidegger Conference, 1976, to convince colleagues I’d found a way of reading Sein und Zeit that would yield
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/7229/) - Written By: David Kleinberg-Levin The more I think about what Tom has sent, seemingly at first quite confusing, the more I think that all these renderings of the enabling or giving event not only can be interpreted to make perfect sense but may actually, indeed, be read as compatible with one another, not exclusionary,
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/7230/) - Written By: David Kleinberg-Levin . . . And I would like to suggest, in this regard, that, whereas Dasein is the measure of mankind, what we human beings must live up to, we might say that the Lichtung of Seyn is the "measure" ("rhythm") of Dasein, is namely what Dasein, as appropriated by the Ereignis
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/7231/) - Written By: Tom: Given your nuanced English translations - and I note how you have already translated into English pieces of this text: might you offer your English translation of the below text (once again, perhaps). "Welt 'gibt' Sein; das Dasein ist das je vereinzelte 'es', das gibt; das erm glicht und ist das
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/5753/) - Written By: ERIC J SANDBERG Richard: After your comment that Zollikon might point to a return to "Being and Time" for Heidegger, I pulled the copy down and fined it marked all over the place with the question as to whether it might be retrograde so I'm going to peruse it along with my
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/10505/) - Written By: Gregory Fried Thank you for the for the thoughtful reflections, Alberto. (And thank you, Richard, for posting my review --- I did not know it had been published already!) Alberto, the following thoughts occur to me in reading you: You and Trawny distinguish between principial, or normative, ethics and what might be
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/10506/) - Written By: Gregory Fried Alberto, What if the human condition is such that such that the principial katechon is a necessarily structural existentiale of our Being-historical? We never have the full revelation, the the full parousia. Treating that condition as only tragic is what ties us up in knots, constantly seeking some final purgation that will
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/10508/) - Written By: David Kleinberg-Levin Kantians might indeed argue that openness to the other is implied by a principle, nsamely, the principle of respect. But responsiveness to the other need not be mediated by any principle. It can be one's im-mediate impulse, coming from a sympathetric type of disposition. After the fact, it can be
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/10511/) - Written By: David Kleinberg-Levin A Luftmensch, wrapped up in the purity of his thoughts, Heidegger seems to have been incapable of empathy, with a heart as cold as stone. Larry Hatab's book is indeed a fine contribution---although Heidegger himself probably would have tossed it away. Too bad he couldn't have read it! It might
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/10720/) - Written By: Michael Fagenblat Thanks Ian.
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/13156/) - Written By: sorrowandsmiles Many thanks!
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/9423/) - Written By: Babette Babich Michael Molinaro is quite right -- but hiding behind these posts, sluicing more or less deftly past responses one might give, is an icon, as we can see. But this is Sartre, not Heidegger: this is "a hidden reality which would drain to itself all the being of the existent"
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/9425/) - Written By: Anna Cullen-Wynn Hello, everyone. The emails from Mr. Price and others put me in mind of a related (?) matter mentioned in Neil Sinhababu's recent review of The Oxford Handbook of Nietzsche. "Nietzsche's Illness", by Charlie Huenemann, begins with strong arguments that the medical condition triggering Nietzsche's collapse into dementia was a
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/9426/) - Written By: Babette Babich Greetings from the Nietzsche- Gesellschaft meeting in Naumburg! There are many comtinental accounts (in general, vastly preferable to the Leiteresque accounts Dr. Cullen-Wynn mentions, and that for a host of reasons), accounts dating back over the years, indeed more than a full century, disputing the single-minded diagnosis of syphilis. But
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/9427/) - Written By: Anna Cullen-Wynn Hello. I must confess I have no idea of what Professor Babich has in mind when she attributes to me a "Leiteresque" account of Nietzsche's illness. I was citing from a review of The Oxford Handbook of Nietzsche, which reported Professor Huenemann's conclusion that "the medical condition triggering Nietzsche's collapse
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/9428/) - Written By: Babette Babich Greetings! Leiteresque characterizes the Oxford book collection ('handbook' is a term publishers prefer because it sells better, just to the extent that folks thereby imagine that one can take questions to be settled, as Dr Cullen-Wynn takes them to be settled: (brain tumor!). The term, hence the -esque, does not
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/9429/) - Written By: Anna Cullen-Wynn Hello. I'm surprised that Professor Babich presumes to read people's minds: "one can take questions to be settled, as Dr Cullen-Wynn takes them to be settled: (brain tumor!)." And I'm confused by her explanation of how a book of some 800 pages can be characterized by a single adjective. But
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/9431/) - Written By: Jedidiah Mohring Dear forum, Although it only required about 2-4 minutes for me to read and understand Prof. Babich's post (I'm not sure how it could take any educated person the better part of an afternoon), I do admit that Dr. Cullen-Wynn's break down of Prof. Babich's insightful and eloquent post will
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/9683/) - Written By: Kate Withy David et al., I won't broadcast the contents of a private message, but I understand that a translation of GA55 is indeed in the works. Best,Kate
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/9684/) - Written By: Anna Cullen-Wynn Hello. This translation of Gesamtausgabe 55 was announced by Bloomsbury some years ago. Does anyone know what became of it? http://www.amazon.com/Heraclitus-Inception-Occidental-Thinking-Contemporary/dp/0826462413 Anna Cullen-Wynn, Ph.D.
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/9685/) - Written By: sorrowandsmiles All: I am translating GA 55, along with a colleague of mine at Trinity. It will be out, through Bloomsbury, in 2017. I look forward to many discussions about it with all of you when it comes out. Best, Shane Ewegen
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/9687/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan Dear friends,Any comments on the following? Where might it miss (or hit) the mark? Thanks in advance. Tom1. "Being itself" is a term Heidegger used to stand for: "whatever makes das Sein des Seienden possible and necessary for Dasein."2. Das Sein des Seienden = the Anwesen des Seienden, that is:a.
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/9688/) - Written By: Lawrence Berger Dear Tom: I have contested much of this in my post dated November 10th, to which you have yet to respond. In your 7.b. you say the drawn-aheadness of Da-sein forms the clearing, which is fine, but then you go on to say that Da-sein is brought into its proper
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/9690/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan Dear friends, I earnestly await Richard Capobianco's refutation of my rehashed proposal of a paradigm shift -- rather than his constant declarations of support for *other* people's problems with it (DKL or Larry Berger or Bill Richardson or Babette or Anna Cullen-Wynn or Laurence Paul Hemming or -- have I
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/9691/) - Written By: ERIC J SANDBERG Tom: I don't hear the same old here. Is there change in your paradigm to allow for Da-sein's 'appropriation' to the clearing and so no longer Da-sein as the "whole" of the clearing? Your point four to Larry has long bothered me. I don't see anything difficult in it.
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/10193/) - Written By: antoniouk Dear Alberto, many thanks for your email. You write: "[...] the very fabric of timespace is a historical factor [...] timespace becomes not the frame but itself a historical element [...] What do you mean by "history" and "historical factor"? Do you mean "Historie", "Geschichte" or something else? Could you please
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/10197/) - Written By: David Kleinberg-Levin Alberto, you are forgetting the swirling vortex of questions I posed a few days ago regarding H's "Seynsgeschichte" and "Ereignis"---issues to which, so far, only Richard Polt has responded, bringing up, from the Anmerkungen (GA 97:382), the passage in which H repudiates all talk---most of all, presumably, his own---regarding the
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/10198/) - Written By: Christopher Ruth David, he doesn't repudiate talk of "Ereignis" in that quote!
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/10200/) - Written By: David Kleinberg-Levin Well, Christopher,H does not repudiate all (possible) talk of Ereignis, that's true---only certain ways of talking about it---or only one way in particular. Tom Sheehan renders "Ereignis" as the a priori appropriation of the human being as Da-sein. Perhaps this sense of "Ereignis" passes muster! But Heidegger's pompous and oracular
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/10203/) - Written By: Babette Babich Re Heidegger and measuring/ontology https://www.academia.edu/7845513/On_Schr%C3%B6dinger_and_Nietzsche_Eternal_Return_and_the_Moment See p. 163 and, on the same page, footnote 42 (Neat theo-ontological fact/detail: Antonio de Nicolas, he man to whom this essay is dedicated is the elder brother of Adolfo Nicolas, the current superior general of the Jesuits, ergo senior to the superior to Pope
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/10841/) - Written By: Gregory Fried Hi, David My apologies to you, and to the others who have responded to my post. I am inundated at work (may the gods spare you all from the duties of Chair!). I am very sympathetic to your reading of the track metaphor. My issue is with Heidegger s reading
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/10843/) - Written By: Gregory Fried David, Your observations are very well taken. I do indeed think we need to be alive to the potentially destructive metaphysical commitments of Liberalism (again, in that much wider sense --- which would, for Heidegger, include Marx, I hasten to point out!). The great danger here cuts both ways, however.
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/7193/) - Written By: Babette Babich Dear Richard, Many thanks! with all best wishes of the season and a happy New Year for all! Babette Babich Professor of Philosophy Fordham University, The Jesuit University of New York Executive Editor: New Nietzsche Studies Web Page: http://faculty.fordham.edu/babich/ The Hallelujah Effect: Philosophical Reflections on Music, Performance Practice, and Technology(Surrey:
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/7194/) - Written By: Babette Babich Dear Richard, While we wait for the Klostermann March event would be, perhaps, Marder and Zabala's book collection Being Shaken which includes in addition to an essay by Peter Trawny and yourself, a number of other essays of interest to Heidegger scholars. Babette Babich Professor of Philosophy Fordham University, The
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/7671/) - Written By: Babette Babich Babette Babich Professor of Philosophy Fordham University, The Jesuit University of New York Executive Editor: New Nietzsche Studies Web Page: http://faculty.fordham.edu/babich/ The Hallelujah Effect: Philosophical Reflections on Music, Performance Practice, and Technology(Surrey: Ashgate, 2013) Professor Babette Babich Department of Philosophy Fordham University 113 West 60th Street, 925H or 914 New
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/7768/) - Written By: David Kleinberg-Levin Yes, Richard, you are historically correct that most of the Jews living in Germany were quite assimilated, having lived there for centuries. They were, for the most part, cosmopolitan and liberal.; a few were Socialists or even farther left. And they did indeed very much identify with the German Heimat.
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/7769/) - Written By: eric d. meyer Dear Folks: What's said about assimilated German Jews here is certainly correct. Some, like Paul Celan, wanted to be German poets. Many wanted to be accepted as German citizens & fought in WWI. There are even studies of German Jews who wrote anti-Semitic tracts. These are "the Jews" who
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/7770/) - Written By: Sidney Farb Didn't somebody recently report a conversation here between Heidegger and (I think) Karl Jaspers where Heidegger allegedly said something about The Protocols being basically true (maybe not genuine though)? I can't remember exactly what it was but I assume I read it here because I can't think of where else
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/7772/) - Written By: Adam Knowles Hi Chris, Yes, I posted about Heidegger and the Protocols of Zion. I was quoting second-hand from Peter Trawny's recent book. I haven't checked the actual Jaspers text yet for accuracy. It seems that Jaspers reported that Heidegger said to him (I don't know which year): "Es gibt doch eine
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/7773/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan Dear Adam, The quotation ("Nonetheless there is a dangerous international alliance [conspiracy?] of Jews") dates to June 30, 1933, and was said to Jaspers when Heidegger visited him in Heidelberg (in the course of giving a lecture there, I believe, perhaps on the university in the new German reich). Jaspers
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/7774/) - Written By: eric d. meyer Dear Heidegger Circle: I thank those who helped track this down. I take the liberty of reprinting the extract from Prof. Sheehan's text here for convenience, with apologies if I am taking this out of context . Nonetheless, for all his opposition to Heidegger from 1936 on, Karl Jaspers, whose wife
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/7775/) - Written By: eric d. meyer Dear Prof. Kleinberg-Levin: And what would you call several dozen tenured university professors publishing numerous articles and books every year on the subject of MH & Nazism? And MH and Anti-Semitism? And MH and racism etc. Without really even debating the issue? Simply reciting the predictable passages that
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/7776/) - Written By: coherings I'm nearly convinced that concern for Heidegger and Jewry has less to do with Heidegger's sense of Jewry (which is a matter of theology, as well as reading his times) than about sustaining one's particular reading of Heidegger (which keeps Heidegger's difficulty at a distance, as if contained by enframing) For
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/7778/) - Written By: David Kleinberg-Levin I do not know who this "GD", using the email address "coherings@gmail.com," is, but I am compelled to say that, on several crucial points, he misunderstands and misinterprets what Iwas arguing. Just to take one point, I would never wish to argue that being against cosmopolitanism is to be anti-Jewish.
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/7779/) - Written By: Gary E Davis R: Since the discourse is becoming ad hominem, .... G: No. That's what the "discourse" toward Heidegger has long been, especially by using snippets from second-hand chatter and contextless ephemera to make claims about Heidegger's beliefs. Let me emphasize: I've been following it all for decades, going back to
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/7780/) - Written By: Gary E Davis David---if I may, I thought my full name was in the address of my e-mail. Gary E. Davis. I'm a member of the Heidegger Circle. I've been a "student" of Heidegger's work since 1972. I made points beyond yours, but I don't believe I showed misunderstanding of anything you
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/7782/) - Written By: Gary E Davis Richard, I wouldn't call "presumably questioning criteria" a point about offhand jottings. I was writing about the likely situation of using notebooks to develop critique of ideology. The material should be read relative to "consistent theme[s] in his thinking," which include re-placing untenable views in contexts of discursive history
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/7783/) - Written By: Gary E Davis Richard, I'm glad you took the time to provide the detail you've provided, and I'm going to attend to everything, which we can't often do. However, it's the weekend; I have the time. But I have to be selective ordinarily, as would you. I think it's useful to start
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/7784/) - Written By: Gary E Davis One typo I must correct: What's currently written as: ...consciousness, only to gets its was as the presence of negated objects... should be ...consciousness, only to get its way as the presence of negated objects...
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/7786/) - Written By: Derek Smith I find Gary's interpretation of the line in question forced. This is further emphasized by the following section 5, where terms like "Schiebens" and "Durcheinandermischens" carry such negative connotations. That these are that through which the "worldlessness" of the Jews becomes grounded speaks more to "Jewry" being bound to nothing
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/7787/) - Written By: Ellis Dye
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/7789/) - Written By: eric d. meyer Dear Prof. Polt: I confess I have not followed this exchange. But I think we now are on the same page in interpreting MH's "anti-Semitism." Clearly, the question whether MH sees what he calls "World Jewry" (Weltjudentum) as a symptom or effect of the world-historical process of "cosmopolitanism," "worldlessness,"
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/7790/) - Written By: David Kleinberg-Levin Begin forwarded message:I am forwarding herewith my original, one-paragraph message to Richard Polt, and Richard reply. What I am contributing herewith has two added paragraphs. DKL. Thanks, David. I hope you'll post something on this to the list. Sanity must prevail. The passage in question indicates that Heidegger (a) thought
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/7791/) - Written By: ERIC J SANDBERG Richard: Same question as a couple of months ago when you were kind enough to share BEYOND STRUGGLE with us. Have you found anything 'more' in the Black Books to change your opinion voiced in the essay. Sweeping my own porch clean, E --------------------------------------------
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/7793/) - Written By: Babette Babich Thank you... Sent from my iPhone
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/7794/) - Written By: ERIC J SANDBERG Richard: As can be expected, a truly thoughtful answer. Thank you -----------------------------------------
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/7795/) - Written By: eric d. meyer eric d. meyer 4:23 PM (0 minutes ago) to Richard Dear Heideggerians & Prof. Polt: Point #1: I'd agree that MH regards Bolshevism, Americanism, and possibly "Judaism" with certain negative connotations: They are "symptoms" or "effects" of "Western metaphysics" as "completed nihilism" embodied in "technology" which "causes" "worldlessness"
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/8215/) - Written By: David Kleinberg-Levin Yes, Allen, what you say is indeed true! Sad to say! The will to power begins its corrupting influence very, very early in the history of Western civilization. Among the ancient Greeks, too, alas! David Kleinberg-Levin.
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/8216/) - Written By: eric d. meyer Dear All: Well, yes, I'd agree. But there's this from JC: "You have heard it said: Love thy neighbor as thyself. But I say unto you: Except you love thine enemy as thyself, you shall not enter the kingdom of heaven." I'm not a Christian, I'm a Bhuddhist (spelled
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/8217/) - Written By: dweinberger Treading lightly because we are of course in a sensitive area: My interpretation of that passage from Isaiah (by which I actually mean I talked with my wife, who is a thoughtful modern Orthodox Jew, with a Ph.D. in philosophy) is that it is not about the will to power or
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/8218/) - Written By: Ellis Dye Dear David, Hearty thanks from an apostate Mormon. My beloved teacher and dissertation adviser, Israel Solomon Stamm, said that he and I had in common that we both had something to go away from. He did, though, go to the synagogue as often as he could, and my thoughtful wife
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/9117/) - Written By: David Kleinberg-Levin Good evening! The textual passage in question comes from Die Kehre (1950). I have discussed the significance of this and related passages in chapter 3 of my book, The Opening of Vision, published by Routledge in 1985. It s a work of which Heidegger scholars in America seem to be
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/10280/) - Written By: Joachim Kübler Jeff, it seems to me that Heidegger studies in Germany focus only on the Black Notebooks" and Heideggers involvement in nazism. In issue 02/15 of the magazine Information Philosophie" ( http://www.information-philosophie.de ) the editor wrote that at German universities Heidegger isn't important anymore. G nter Figal, Professor at the University
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/5217/) - Written By: Ferdi Memelli I completely agree with prof. Polt's suggestion. I don't know of another professional Heidegger's society in the U.S., and puting this one on Facebook won't make it look very serious. Ferdi Memelli
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/5218/) - Written By: Cathy Leblanc Bonjour Erik ! I am not on facebook but I find your idea interesting because it expresses the need of interactions between the HCmembers, which we can do while discussing on the forum of course but it would give us a chance of joking, making humour, and of course escape
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/9041/) - Written By: Gregory Fried Colleagues, Julie Ireland asked me to post this to the listserv, as it was bounced back to her. Best, Greg Fried Begin forwarded message: Cc: Richard Hearn , Gregory Fried , , "Polt, Richard" Dear Colleagues, I would like to respond to Babette's recent long post----which I think is
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/10207/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan Dear Alberto, I'm not sure I understand what "meditative physics" might be. Hd's Besinnung -- aka Denken in his own sense of that term -- is focused on the appropriated clearing, something that the natural sciences as such (as the sciences they are) cannot engage in. Hence: "Die Wissenschaft denkt
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/10300/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan Dear Reg, You asked: "Is there a third explanation?" Perhaps there is. Hd's work is certainly difficult to sort out. But from that it doesn't necessarily follow that Hd scholars are dense or that Heidegger couldn't figure out what "the thing itself" was. I don't think either of those options
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/10301/) - Written By: Gregory Fried Dear All, I second Tom's idea to have a discussion of a key term, such as Ereignis, at the HC conference. Further, I suggest that we move towards a model of much shorter presentations at the gathering, with only a few long papers delivered. I have in mind a model where
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/12959/) - Written By: ehovland Hi Julia. I was glad to see this post. Thank you. I am planning to attend the Publishing on Heidegger discussion panel. However, in that I am a new Heidegger Circle member who will be attending the meeting for the first time, I am not employed in academia, nor have I
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/12962/) - Written By: To John's very good question, may I also add a request for information about the "we" who cannot yet think this relation? Bob
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/8787/) - Written By: Babette Babich Very nice! But I am not sure I am unfair to the techno-sabbath -- it's a technique for managing technlogy.... Babette Babich Professor of Philosophy Fordham University, The Jesuit University of New York Executive Editor: New Nietzsche Studies Web Page: http://faculty.fordham.edu/babich/ The Hallelujah Effect: Philosophical Reflections on Music, Performance Practice,
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/9030/) - Written By: David Kleinberg-Levin Absolutely right, Greg! Especially your point about finding new ways to advance the thinking and questions, beyond the endless explication and duplication of Heidegger s discourse. In that respect, even putting to one side for the moment the issues surrounding Heidegger s involvement in National Socialism, I think scholars favourable
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/9031/) - Written By: Babette Babich 700000 to pay junior scholars *and* Kellerer to confemn Heidegger. How indeed can anyone be "for" Heidegger (which only means, anyone who does not read Heidegger with this one and only theme in mind)? There is simply no competion -- and there will be no scholarship apart from the sort
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/9032/) - Written By: Richard Hearn Professor Babich: As an admirer of your work, I was taken aback by your criticism of the $700,000 Euro grant claiming that "there will be no scholarship apart from the sort trial lawyers employing muckrakers call the getting of the 'facts'". As you are one of the preeminent Nietzsche
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/9033/) - Written By: Babette Babich Dear Dr. Hearn, Of course, you are quite right. ... but I doubt actual trial lawyers will be involved. Hence I referred not to lawyers but to those who gather 'facts' for the same. And, as Nietzsche reminds us, 'there are no facts.' Kind regards,
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/9034/) - Written By: Richard Hearn But there is art and, from what I have seen, many in the Heidegger Circle practice the practical art of the trial lawyer as well or better than I do. The problem is our ambivalence about using it to defend Heidegger, the man. Trial lawyers often defend really bad men
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/9035/) - Written By: David Kleinberg-Levin I for one am not happy suggesting or implying that to be a Heidegger scholar valuing his thought is necessarily to be against the Enlightenment. But this term, "Enlightenment," includes many different features. There are different visions and interpretations. So my discomfiture is not to deny that there are certain
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/9036/) - Written By: Babette Babich Dear Dr. Hearn, That seems right to me --- but these are very big stakes ... and scale often makes a difference, even when it comes to art. And again: I am persuaded you are right about that. I am also taken with Prof. Ellis Dye's fine observations regarding invisibility.
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/9037/) - Written By: Gregory Fried Good evening, colleagues. Thanks again to everyone who has responded privately and on this listserv to my remarks. I do feel I must correct the record on some items that Babette Babich brought up.
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/9038/) - Written By: Babette Babich Dear Greg, I wrote, as I do fear I always tend to write, about several things all at once but not as a way of equating them. There is just a little more going on that, perhaps, you are not choosing to attend to. Nor do I disagree with many
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/9039/) - Written By: Babette Babich Dear Julia, I agree with almost all of what you say --minus among other things the claim re what you opt to call my "errors" (nice word that) which I do not think to be errors, though one may disagree re the interpretation, of course, but German scholars who have
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/9040/) - Written By: Gregory Fried Dear Babette, I want to thank you for clarifying your points. I appreciate your fair-mindedness in this. This topic is not easy to discuss. I still do not quite know what it would mean to be "pro" Heidegger or a Heidegger "apologist" without being critical (in the full sense of that
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/12189/) - Written By: As the young Heidegger might have asked, who says "a rock per se is a living, ensouled being"? For about 400 years, the default answer has been No One, from Nowhere, just expressing The Truth. We now know better.... Bob
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/12191/) - Written By: Gary R. Brown I enjoy Capobianco's contributions even when I at least partially disagree with them, as I do with this post. I agree that there is far more to Heidegger than the merger of being and becoming. Whitehead's Bergson inspired process thinking is still entangled in metaphysics. For example, Whitehead seems
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/12195/) - Written By: The issue is not whether one recognizes this "participation" in a general theoretical way, but whether one (1) recognizes "how" this participation is occurring in one's own thinking; and (2) recognizes that no matter what the tradition encourages us to assume, participation takes other possible forms than "knowing"; and (3)--in line with
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/12196/) - Written By: Babette Babich Babette Babich Professor of Philosophy Fordham University, The Jesuit University of New York Executive Editor: New Nietzsche Studies Web Page: http://faculty.fordham.edu/babich/ The Hallelujah Effect: Philosophical Reflections on Music, Performance Practice, and Technology(London: Routledge, 2016 [2013]) Professor Babette Babich Department of Philosophy Fordham University 113 West 60th Street, 925H or 914
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/12200/) - Written By: Thanks for the response, David. I tried to say it all with no frills. Too much commentary fails to start, as Heidegger did in 1919, with (1), which will always make it hard to brng in (2) and (3) in the proper way....
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/12202/) - Written By: It's always much easier to recognize (2), because it requires no reflective effort to determine "how" you yourself are taking it. Typically, starting with the recognition of (2) leaves "one" free to blather on about all those people that don't overcome the tradition, that don't see the limitations of representational thought, that
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/12204/) - Written By: rcscharff Yes, that's one consequence of living in an objectivist era. If one simply starts out thinking "as one does," then "experience" is already by default an inner event yet to be processed by a properly trained theorizing consciousness. Sent from my iPhone
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/12207/) - Written By: Isn't criticizing Heidegger's description of animals--in the context of his trying to clarify how to understand human be-ing--a little like criticizing Nietzsche in the 2nd Untimely Meditation because he tries to clarify the sense in which humans "have a history" by contrasting this with the way animals can appear to us not
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/12210/) - Written By: Dear James and the HC, My apologies for going silent after your careful reply to my quip. Life got in the way. In any case, I think I agree with most of the things you say about how not to read "Heidegger 'on' animals." And I would be the last person
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/13160/) - Written By: Interesting indeed, Richard. For whatever it might be to "pursue" a "post-Hegelian philosophy of Nature," it would have to be both non-metaphysical and non-cosmological...without being simply "opposed" to either. Bob
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/13162/) - Written By: ....and I think that anything less would be to presume too little.
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/5852/) - Written By: nico Thanks for your reply. The subject is fascinating... I'll certainly read your book during my vacation the end of august... Best wishes, Nico On 5 aug, 17:21, "Robert D. Stolorow" wrote: Thank you for this tip, Nico. Regarding the relevance of Heidegger's work for psychology and psychiatry, I think you
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/5853/) - Written By: steven crowell Greetings. If you are interested in Pedersen's stance you might also find another of his articles of interest: "On Heidegger's Appropriation of Aristotle's Concept of Phronesis: Where and How does Phronesis Show Up in Being and Time?" in *The New Yearbook for Phenomenology and Phenomenological Philosophy* vol. X (2010), pp.
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/5855/) - Written By: nico Thanks for your reply. I would appreciate it very much if you clould send me the pdf. It would be elucidating to compare both interpretations. Thanks in advance, Nico
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/6044/) - Written By: Bricker, Jeffrey Dear Forum Members and Richard C., Thanks Richard for your helpful comments. So it seems that Heidegger in his later writings uses a simple German term which translators like to render as “presence” which, I suspect, the English-speaking reader understands as having the connotation of “present”—some person, place or thing
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/6045/) - Written By: nate zuckerman To be fair, in his early work there is 'vorhanden' to indicate the way of being 'merely present now.' Nate
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/8083/) - Written By: eric d. meyer Dear Prof. Polt et al: If I am not shuddering, maybe it's because in the Glorious American 1970s, I often heard "radicals," "hippies," and members of the much-vaunted "counter-cultre" make statements about how "The System" needed to collapse before any real change could occur, and about how "When the
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/8773/) - Written By: Babette Babich Dear Richard, Ah, What a lovely and, I think for many of us, for me, a closer illustration! Thank you! For me, Walter as student AND editor and, by formation not less as an art historian, is worth considering ( and so I quote him in my own work and
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/9316/) - Written By: R. Dye Dear Ian, As a footnote to the helpful suggestions from Richard and Reg, let me add that you might try looking for some kind of primer of Deutsche Schreibschrift (of which the Sutterlin Handschrift mentioned by Richard and used by Heidegger is one of several variations). I needed to learn
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/9317/) - Written By: Christopher Merwin Dear Ian,Good to hear from you! It's been since the Heidegger Collegium a few years ago and glad to hear that you are off to Marbach soon!I was in Marbach this past summer and managed to do a little Sutterlin prep before going. If you'd like to link up off-list
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/9318/) - Written By: Ian Moore Thanks again to everyone who replied! ----- Ian Alexander Moore Fulbright and Josephine de Karman Fellow, 2015-2016 Editorial Assistant, Philosophy Today Ph.D. Candidate Department of Philosophy, DePaul University 2352 N. Clifton, Suite 150 Chicago, IL 60614 imoore1@depaul.edu ianalexandermoore@yahoo.com
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/9319/) - Written By: Arkadi Choufrine Dear Richard, Ellis, and others in the know-- The site referred by Richard says that Suetterlin script was taught in German schools from 1915 to 1941: http://www.suetterlinschrift.de/Englisch/Sutterlin.htm Does this mean that Heidegger switched to it when he was 26 ?! Or what could have possibly make it do it earlier?
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/9320/) - Written By: Arkadi Choufrine typo, should read: ... what could have possibly make HIM do it earlier? ~Arkadi
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/9322/) - Written By: Arkadi Choufrine Thanks, Reg. Yet I am still wondering, as, per my childhood experience, the only place one could plausibly develop one's handwriting was one's elementary school. ~Arkadi On Thursday, September 17, 2015 at 11:17:37 PM UTC-4, reg wrote:My understanding is that Suetterlin's 'system of writing' was officially adopted in 1915 in
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/9323/) - Written By: R. Dye Dear Arkadiu, I think Reg is right that Suetterlin Handschrift is not as distinctive as your question seems to imply; it's a variation on the much older Deutsche Handschrift (Kurrent). It was introduced in the Prussian schools in 1915 and at different times in other German lands. The term Suetterlin
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/9324/) - Written By: Arkadi Choufrine Thank you, Ellis.This is quite informative.As regards facsimile, Richard Polt was attaching a sample to his response in this thread, and then added it to the Documents site:https://sites.google.com/site/heideggercircledocuments/research-aids I am looking forward to hearing what you'd say about.~Arkadi , 18 2015 ., 12:00:15 UTC-4 dye :Dear Arkadiu, I think Reg
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/11062/) - Written By: Ian Moore Dear all, For what it's worth, Alan Schrift and I included a translation of the same letter in our recently published volume on Jean Wahl. I was able to consult the original German (in addition to the published French translation by Hans Pollnow) in Marbach, and interpolated a few variations
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/11176/) - Written By: Lawrence Berger In response to David and Bob, how then do you understand Heidegger's insistence on the self-withdrawal of Being and the lack that we feel as beings who belong to Being, and which is made manifest in our very attunement? That we are always already on the way to Being, and
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/11178/) - Written By: Lawrence Berger Thanks for the clarification, David. How then are we to understand the call to gather ourselves and in that manner participate in the gathering of Being, or the Zusammenhang des Lebens as Bob mentions? What calls us? Is it the beings themselves? Is there no room for more global conceptions
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/11180/) - Written By: Lawrence Berger So is how we take and see things rock bottom? Would that be a reification? Alternatively the we and our seeing could be seen as part of a greater something to which we respond, which we hold in awe. In that case, would it be a reification to call that
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/11184/) - Written By: Hi all, There is a lot at play in these recent posts, and I apologize for not being more forthcoming here, but I didn't realize my comments to David had been made public. So be it. To Richard's remark, I can only confess that the later I go in Heidegger's writings,
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/11189/) - Written By: Hi Richard, et al., I suppose I deserve your misreading of my comments, given their brevity, but for what it's worth. (1) I do not say and do not believe that the later Heidegger "is not concerned with Sein Selbst." What I said was that I see "the emphasis shifting away
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/11676/) - Written By: Richard Hammond https://youtu.be/FC-vGxfUK08
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/12310/) - Written By: I actually wonder if one couldn't stretch "not a bad little sketch of a certain kind of British philosophy" a bit further. To this day, the most respectable areas of "real philosophy" are epistemology (preferable science-like) and ethics (preferably debates about agency, rule-following, and the justification of principles). And recently, "metaphysics"--meaning the
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/5243/) - Written By: Cathy Leblanc yes, given "contemplating the void" would be part of the essence of the cow, which is only asserted by the caption. And Heidegger could have had a different theory about non-human things and animals today. I particularly think of the intellectual capacities of the monkey and the genetic results that
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/5277/) - Written By: Ferdi Memelli Personnally, I am amazed at the sheer number of volumes... I wonder if Heidegger might have been practising "automatic writting" as the surrealists intended it...
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/5278/) - Written By: Cathy Leblanc I agree with you and I also find it a miracle that everything was kept in sufficiently good conditions to be published. I am anxious to discover Heidegger's personality through his correspondence. Cathy Leblanc
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/7223/) - Written By: antoniouk Dear Eric (if I may), many thanks for your email. However, the two passages you quoted must be contextualized: "The Concept of The Political": "...'the friend, enemy and combat concepts receive their real meaning precisely because they refer to the real possibility of physical killing.'" (citing Schmitt,The Concept of the Political).
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/8129/) - Written By: David Kleinberg-Levin I must publicly lend my voice of support for Richard Polt s commentary replies here. One word of Heidegger s that he did not tackle, though, is intermingling (without scare quotes). Given the time and the place, the whole historical context, this word might well cause one to shudder. The
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/8130/) - Written By: Adam Knowles Dear Richard et al, Thank you, as always, for the very thoughtful post. I wanted to call attention to a passage from GA 94 that might lend support to much of what you said, but in any case helps shed some light on how Heidegger intended the Schwarze Hefte to
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/8131/) - Written By: David Kleinberg-Levin A nice piece of disowning, or disavowing! DKL
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/8132/) - Written By: Gary E Davis Good. Richard, you've provided some explanation for your view of specific passages. Thanks. Preliminary to more-detailed reply to the specific passages: You touch on a range of issues in your earlier, general posting and in your specific posting today. What is one to do with touches on---i.e., mentions of---very
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/8134/) - Written By: eric d. meyer Dear Heideggerians My apologies for intervening here. when I do not really have background or time to make an intelligent comment. But it appears to me that the prima facie reading endorsed by commentators reads these passages backwards. The passages in question do not take the "wordlessness," the "calculation,"
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/8136/) - Written By: dweinberger Eric, You may be right that the stereotyped and negative characteristics Heidegger attributes to Jews in these passages he thinks are an effect of the metaphysical processes he denounces. But that does not lessen their prima facie anti-Semitism. For example, if I were to say (and I do hope this will
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/8137/) - Written By: eric d. meyer Dear All: I have 3 minutes to reply. Thanks for the feedback, which I heartily endorse. But if I say (as BO just did) that the crimes of young BMs are effect of social inequality, poverty, prejudice etc., I am, yes, admitting that young BMs do commit crimes, but
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/8138/) - Written By: Gary E Davis That's very useful, Richard. Particularly, today I was thinking about how to further things thoughtfully, and wanted to soon focus on prima facie meaning especially, as it relates to a difference of true meaning. What happens there is that normal issues of philosophy---reference, implicature, speech-act modeling---are implicated, as well
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/8143/) - Written By: Gary E Davis Larry, your reflections are fascinating! And edifying. I enjoyed that very much. We're close in age (1949 for me). I didn't go to Woodstock either---but getting there was a short jaunt from my south-of- Cincinnati locale (where I grew up), via my trusty VW that got me to Berkeley
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/8144/) - Written By: dweinberger Thank you, Larry, for a post that is so admirably personal and philosophical. You ask: "What in Being and Time would not apply to Zionism?" And I hate to do the (stereotypical yet not untrue) Jewish thing of answering a question with a question, but: What do you mean by Zionism? I take
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/8145/) - Written By: eric d. meyer Dear D Weinberger et al.: My thesis, based upon both my own experience & TW Adorno & Max Horkheimer's "Elements of Anti-Semitism," is that human beings who are forced to exist in a constant atmosphere of prejudice and bigotry frequently internalize the stereotypical characteristics projected upon them by the
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/8146/) - Written By: Gary E Davis being Heideggerian / thinking Jewish When I welcomed the chance to get clear to myself, thanks to Richard, why one persistently misreads Heidegger vis- -vis political times, I didn't anticipate the fun chance I had today to post "being Jewish / thinking Heidegger." That provides a sense of background
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/8147/) - Written By: Derek Smith I have not found any reason to jump into the "yes, he is; no, he isn't" argument recently, but let me say that the "side" discussions have been very interesting reading and more of what I had initially hoped to find on this forum. Thank you very much for these
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/8148/) - Written By: Gary E Davis Richard, If you believe that extended efforts to show that Heidegger, the person, is antisemitic for reasons not related to his work (secretly holding views he doesn't speak) is not prima facie ad hominem in the extreme, then I believe that you had better think again. Many, including you,
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/8825/) - Written By: Babette Babich My reflections, via Science Fantasy (not Sci Fi) in the too-long-blog on R. Scott Bakker's fiction: herewith ... Babette Babich Professor of Philosophy Fordham University, The Jesuit University of New York Executive Editor: New Nietzsche Studies Web Page: http://faculty.fordham.edu/babich/ The Hallelujah Effect: Philosophical Reflections on Music, Performance Practice, and Technology(Surrey:
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/10818/) - Written By: R. Dye Dear Heideggerians, I have read Amogha Sahu's short essay "Heidegger's Political Theory . . . " with interest and found it generally lucid and helpful. I should like, though (please indulge my pedantry), to take exception to the grammar in its first sentence. The solecism, "One of the things .
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/11015/) - Written By: Gregory Fried "Commitment" was a buzzword in the 60s. It was about a sense of connection and authenticity, but divorced from content. Some Continental philosophy drifted into the counterculture. I think Marcuse was the most read for his critique of the "one-dimensional man" of the consumer society. But I was only a
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/11567/) - Written By: Thanks, Matthew and Richard. There is something interesting about the context in which these citations occur. Most of them refer to James' relevance to "pre-theoretical fundamental experience" and "our going back to [this] origin...carried out much more concretely," to quote two passages from GA 59. This is not the pragmatism
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/11568/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan Dear Matthew and Richard, Many thanks for these references--very helpful. Could the argument be made that even after 1930 Hd continues to be focused on that "primal phenomenon," now understood as Da-sein: 1. in SZ, as site of all forms of what-and-how-ness/Anwesen, but where the emphasis is on the "-sein,"
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/11569/) - Written By: Babette Babich Dear Richard, Very useful: many thanks! For those interested in the broader meanings of pragmatism current at the time, i.e., beyond James, it might be worth looking at p. 268 (and Bill Richardson who was not fond of what I wrote -- he much preferred Richard C.and nearly any one
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/11673/) - Written By: Bret Davis Before his turn to heavy metal, his collaboration (collusion?) with H&O went through a few more epochal albums: Attachments-134/IMG-20171129-WA0011.jpgAttachments-134/IMG-20171130-WA0000.jpg
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/11674/) - Written By: Christopher Merwin This is the most amazing thing I will see this semester.Christopher Merwin Ph.D. Candidate Department of Philosophy Emory University 214 Bowden Hall 561 S. Kilgo Circle Atlanta, GA 30322From: heideggercircle@googlegroups.com [mailto:heideggercircle@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Polt, Richard
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/12531/) - Written By: oops. sorry. I meant "prediction," not "predication." Bob
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/12861/) - Written By: Dan Bloom Thank you. I am interested in that paper. Dan www.danbloomnyc.com
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/12863/) - Written By: Hi All, I ran across a short piece by Schmitz in English a few years ago, in one of Tymieniecka's Analecta Husseriana volumes. I attach it for those who might want to follow up. After a little sniffing around, I balk at his account of "subjective facts," especially given his own
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/12935/) - Written By: sorrowandsmiles Wayne: Your post strikes me as an excellent, and eloquent, way of framing things. Heidegger clearly finds it necessary to work through metaphysics in order to access something of the 'inceptual' experiences that animate it; equally clear is his insistence that it cannot simply be dispensed with. Most of all, I
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/12937/) - Written By: Hope it's OK to add two more cents. (1) I certainly agree that no text can speak to us about metaphysics, if we already come to the text with a love of metaphysics, Whitehead, and process philosophy. And (2) as complicated as "metaphysics" may have been to Heidegger, GA55 is typical insofar
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/12938/) - Written By: Sorry. That's "Bob," not "Bib."
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/5226/) - Written By: Ferdi Memelli The discussion of this topic is rendered more difficult by the multiple phenomema that are, in one way of another, related to laughter in general, such as comedy, humor, sarcasm, irony, etc. We cannot be expected in all seriousness to find all these phenomena treated, addressed and exemplified in one
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/5229/) - Written By: Ferdi Memelli Something that comes to mind: do we have better chances of detecting humor and irony in Heidegger by reading Jean Beaufret's Dialogue avec Heidegger? Beaufret is full of humor and irony in treating the same topics, and in the same spirit, that Heidegger treated, supposedly, with such a lack of
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/5230/) - Written By: Babette Babich The trouble, here, the ticklish trouble, is that Nietzsche's "laughter" is itself more complex than tends to be supposed... So too Heidegger
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/5231/) - Written By: jonas_barck One question is whether you can find any marks of humour in the Heidegger corpus. Another question is if Heidegger himself had any sense of humour. His friend Heinrich Wiegand Petzet gives us an indirect answer to that question by quoting a story he got from Martin Heidegger's beloved brother Fritz
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/5232/) - Written By: Babette Babich Is rolling on the floor laughter, no? Stunned, eh? I prefer Zhou Enlai's be-musing when Henry Kissenger asked him what he thought of the French Revolution: "It's too soon to tell."
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/5233/) - Written By: jonas_barck Sorry about the "miss-spelling" of the nonsensical statement of the brother Fritz (that made it even more absurd). The correct version should be: "Mao Tse? That is the Ge-stell of Lao-tzu". But, of course, that doesn't matter for professor Babich. Which maybe, along with the Heraclitus story, only shows that humor
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/5234/) - Written By: Babette Babich it's too soon to tell
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/5235/) - Written By: nvcamp Well, a first hand witness such as (Arendt's first husband) G nther Anders assures us that he sure liked a "good laugh:" in an interview he tells what he and his fellow students did at the "home warming party" of the Todtnauburg cabbin, namelyplaying a rather strange game that night: they
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/5236/) - Written By: Ferdi Memelli As a suggestion, I think the next circle meeting should be devoted to the broader theme of Heidegger and laughter. Discussion of what Heraclitus might have been doing when the visitors went to see him should not be allowed.
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/5237/) - Written By: Cathy Leblanc "Heideggerian philosophers on their heads in Manhattan" would be a formidable title for the press, wouldn't it ? -:)) Eventually, the French would speak of it in Le Monde ! The question is : would that be considered as a spiritual exercise ? hm... Cathy Leblanc Ma tre de Conf
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/5238/) - Written By: Chris Ruth There are a lot of passages in Heidegger that COULD be taken as humorous, depending on how they were delivered. I often get a little laugh when he starts down that road of, "Certainly. It would be entirely correct to say this. However..." but maybe HE didn't think it was
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/7326/) - Written By: Ingvild Torsen Please, no reason to plead guilty! (I certainly did not mean to accuse anyone.) I will post replies to Sheehan and Stolorow later. Meanwhile, here is the reply from Eric Sandberg (that he intended to everyone): I have a question to the members of the Heidegger Circle in light of
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/7327/) - Written By: steven crowell I would like to thank Ingvild for this thoughtful question and discussion. I have learned a lot from the discussions on the forum but tend not to contribute since I find it a clumsy substitute for conversation (and it gets me too worked up, anyway). But it is a wonderful
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/7329/) - Written By: Paul Anthony I would like to address your comment that your ultimate "concern is with the state (and status) of Heidegger scholarship." I think that there's an elephant in the room when it comes to Heidegger scholarship. And, I think that Professor Sheehan's humorous comments on the implications of not being able
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/7332/) - Written By: ERIC J SANDBERG ----- Forwarded Message -----
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/7333/) - Written By: Nobuya Ochinero Dear Ingvild and All The problem with Heidegger scholarship of today and yesterday is that they are accused of falsity. It is a completely valid accusation which will certainly doom their future careers as false thinkers. In our times, especially in feminism (but especially in Judith Butler), Heidegger is really
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/7334/) - Written By: Derek Smith Hello Heidegger Circle Members, This is perhaps my second post here (and I was nailed on the first one), so here goes another attempt. Since we're talking about "flowers," I thought I might not end up so bruised as last time. The statement of Invild's to which I would like
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/7335/) - Written By: Shane Ewegen Derek: I think you’ve articulated very well one of the major ways in which Heidegger’s though remains crucially important to the contemporary world. I think you’ve also touched upon the principle way in which his thought can be deemed as ‘useful’ by non-philosophers. (It is with his work on technology
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/7336/) - Written By: Ellis Dye
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/7339/) - Written By: ERIC J SANDBERG Derek: Of a sort, yes. I was expecting you to pose it against a sort of 'pure' thinking that late Heidegger might himself been posing. Scylla and Charybdis, yes. What do you think? Warm regards, E
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/7343/) - Written By: dweinberger Derek, if you're worried that what you wrote will get you marked as anti-technology, I'm worried that the following will get me marked as anti-Heidegger. (And, no, you don't sound anti-tech at all. Merely thoughtful.) I find the core of Heidegger's writings on technology to be trenchant not only for the
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/7344/) - Written By: Derek Smith Hi David, My first thought on what you write is that someone could have made a similar argument concerning the damming of the Rhein to Heidegger. You mention some sites that allow people to unite and share and create, and you do not shy away from the fact that most
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/7345/) - Written By: dweinberger Derek, Your response is directly on the point. I stripped out some of my comments acknowledging that I am admittedly a "Web Exceptionalist," a term usually used pejoratively, but which I am fine with. (I am not generally a Johnny Cash fan, however :) Our disagreement seems to stem from a
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/7346/) - Written By: Derek Smith David,First of all thank you for graciously not correcting my Rhine spelling! If I hate the iPad it's because it makes me look like an ignoramus. Hmmm...a pair of poorly drawn boots. But we are discussing what Heidegger said about those boots, and what value we find in his statements.
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/7347/) - Written By: Babette Babich Greetings all, Much of what Heidegger offers on technology is also to be found in his somewhat estranged student Guenther Anders who quite specifically connects Heidegger's reading of technology, including Bestand, with contemporary forms of technology, very akin to the self-same thing one does with a keyboard and a screen
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/7348/) - Written By: Derek Smith Oh, you should see my "study halls" with every teenager with headset on, staring into a little screen, with a little smile on each face.
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/7349/) - Written By: ERIC J SANDBERG Ingvild: I'm still with you. (Sorry. LOL) Here's a missive that I sent to Paul that also fell into the great abyss of the ignored. What I was hoping to elicit was for someone to see that I had provided an example of 'philosophical' argumentation that you proposed in your e-bomb, to
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/7350/) - Written By: Ingvild Torsen Dear All, First, a thank you: I think there are so many interesting responses here (and also find it striking how they differ from each other). And then second, an apology: I am not going to be able to respond to all the various questions raised, so I apologize in
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/7351/) - Written By: Nobuya Ochinero Richardson's failure (a small one) to appear Lacanian, even within institutionalized-male-dominated psychoanalytic circles, was inevitable; in Heidegger, Bill's failure was due to the male's "innate blindness to historical temporality" --this (Invisible) archaic male limit and the (Visible) archaic male limit, is a generic binary unity, replicable by all, but more
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/7352/) - Written By: ERIC J SANDBERG ----- Forwarded Message -----
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/7353/) - Written By: ERIC J SANDBERG Nobuya: I'm confused, so I'll ask. Undoubtedly, philosophy is historically 'patriarchal.' But Dasein has no sex or gender? What are you driving at? And what has Lacan to do with Heidegger? Listening but confused, E
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/7354/) - Written By: dweinberger I look at our engagement with the Internet and I see something fundamentally different than Derek and Babette and Anders see. To be more precise, I recognize the truth of their characterization of it, but I also see another form of engagement with the Net that presents itself to me as
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/7355/) - Written By: Dana Belu David: Can you say more about the kind of engagement with the Net that shows up for you? More disclosive in what way? Thanx, Dana
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/7356/) - Written By: dweinberger I'll try not to ride too far on my hobby horse :) From my point of view [1], our encounter with the Net makes it harder for us [2] to make the old mistakes that our history of metaphysics has led us to. It thus makes clearer our situation as Heidegger
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/7358/) - Written By: Ingvild Torsen Hans Pedersen asked me to share his response: Dear all, I wanted to make a belated response to Ingvild's initial post, since this is an issue that I've been thinking about for a while too. I teach at a state university in a state that annually tries to reduce the
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/7359/) - Written By: Babette Babich Greetings David, I have been writing about Heidegger and technology (and Heidegger and science as well as Heidegger and art) for a long time without any response from colleagues and I should be used to that (but, not so surprisingly, I am not...). However I am in the midst of
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/7360/) - Written By: dweinberger Babette, Thanks for attaching the article. I look forward to reading it. Embarrassingly, Mr. The-Net-Changes-Everything (= me) doesn't have pdf's of his books. I will send some paper-based materials to your Fordham address. My face is red. I am very reluctant to point this mailing list to anything I've written because
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/7361/) - Written By: Dana Belu Thank you, Babette. I look forward to reading your article. I have a new piece in the works, an article on Heidegger and reproductive technology, that will be coming out at the end of the year (or early 2015) in The Philosophy of Technology Reader, ed. J. Pitts. I think
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/7363/) - Written By: steven crowell
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/7366/) - Written By: steven crowell That's great. I'm not as much of an individualist (though I get the point), so I think that, as onerous as it is, we do kind of owe people some explanations, reasons, since we ourselves have them: "whim" is a reason, maybe a good one, maybe not.
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/7367/) - Written By: steven crowell Richard, Many thanks for this. I agree with everything you say in the second paragraph, though with perhaps some nuances of difference: for instance, I think there is a third state, between being "focused" on the for-the-sake-of-which and pursuing it (or better, exercising it) "inadvertantly," and I think that it's
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/7368/) - Written By: Babette Babich One way to choose is always to choose like a child, choose and unchoose. Babette Babich Professor of Philosophy Fordham University, The Jesuit University of New York Executive Editor: New Nietzsche Studies Web Page: http://faculty.fordham.edu/babich/ The Hallelujah Effect: Philosophical Reflections on Music, Performance Practice, and Technology(Surrey: Ashgate, 2013) Professor Babette Babich Department of Philosophy Fordham University 113 West 60th Street, 925H or 914
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/7372/) - Written By: steven crowell Agreed. Though H does make reference to a kind of "undifferentiated" state between authenticity and inauthenticity (which I interpret as meaning that there is a continuum of modes of "transparency" about one's existence) he tends to focus -- for methodological reasons, but also for other reasons -- on the poles.
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/7373/) - Written By: steven crowell Thanks for the kind words, Larry. I've always thought of your work as a model of constructive and original engagement with Heidegger's thinking. I can't respond to everything you've noted below, but just a couple of points: first, I don't think we disagree on the "field" character of pre-reflective involvement
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/7691/) - Written By: Babette Babich Lovely post, Richard. I think that Nietzsche wrote tick-tock poems, which are, in English, doggerel. But inasmuch as Nietzsche's own research concerned rhythm and time in music (for more, see the last three chapters of my The Hallelujah Effect, pdf for anyone who asks), such judgments fall short when it comes
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/9132/) - Written By: Babette Babich Marshall McLuhan allusion intended, one presumes? That was the joke... Babette Babich Fulbright Fellow , Humboldt University, Berlin Fordham Faculty Fellowship Leave: 2015-2016 Professor of Philosophy Fordham University, The Jesuit University of New York Executive Editor: New Nietzsche Studies Web Page: http://faculty.fordham.edu/babich/ The Hallelujah Effect: Philosophical Reflections on Music, Performance
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/9133/) - Written By: Babette Babich One-upmanship has its comeuppances That too is the joke... B Babette Babich Fulbright Fellow , Humboldt University, Berlin Fordham Faculty Fellowship Leave: 2015-2016 Professor of Philosophy Fordham University, The Jesuit University of New York Executive Editor: New Nietzsche Studies Web Page: http://faculty.fordham.edu/babich/ The Hallelujah Effect: Philosophical Reflections on Music, Performance
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/9134/) - Written By: Babette Babich Thanks for that, nice for the young Woody... Babette Babich Fulbright Fellow , Humboldt University, Berlin Fordham Faculty Fellowship Leave: 2015-2016 Professor of Philosophy Fordham University, The Jesuit University of New York Executive Editor: New Nietzsche Studies Web Page: http://faculty.fordham.edu/babich/ The Hallelujah Effect: Philosophical Reflections on Music, Performance Practice, and
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/9135/) - Written By: Babette Babich Of course Woody is also the only regisseur to put the cover of Heidegger's Introduction to Metaphysics on the silver screen... Babette Babich Fulbright Fellow , Humboldt University, Berlin Fordham Faculty Fellowship Leave: 2015-2016 Professor of Philosophy Fordham University, The Jesuit University of New York Executive Editor: New Nietzsche Studies
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/9137/) - Written By: Richard Hearn David: You wrote, "I'd really like to hear what Heidegger says, and not just because it would be "interesting" in the same way that Tom and Richard's interpretations are interesting. Would I accept it blindly as dictum? Nope. Would I give Heidegger's self-interpretation priority, privilege, and more weight than
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/10730/) - Written By: Arkadi Choufrine Dear Richard C., Laurence, and others--- As I cited the passage from Larry's review that brings in "hyspostasising," I was assuming that the meaning of the latter term is: speaking of "Sein" as if it were a self-standing entity--whether anthropomorphic, divine, or of unknown nature. There is no doubt that
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/10732/) - Written By: Arkadi Choufrine Dear Richard C.-- "so many speak reflexively and without argument about human Dasein as "is-ing" without the need to posit a "subject""--- Unfortunately, I fail to find this analogy convincing, for Dasein is "officially" an entity (although not a "subject"); whereas Being---in view of the "ontological difference"---is not. ~Arkadi
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/10873/) - Written By: Tom, I'm afraid my response is less clear-headed than Richard's. I do think it is a good question, both in general, concerning what we should do with Heidegger's retractions, and specifically about this one, concerning Wahrheit. But regarding passages like GA14: 86.16-20/70.2-5, I have a problem. As I read him, Heidegger does
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/10876/) - Written By: Richard.Ackermann The book/article that needs to be written is the one that bridges truth as correspondence and coherence with truth as clearing and significance. I found out recently that SFSU did at least once allow BT to be taught in the Philosophy Department as part of its interdisciplinary
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/10877/) - Written By: Babette Babich Even if BT is part of the curriculum at some point it will be taught by analytic philosophers
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/10878/) - Written By: Anthony Adler Yes, I agree completely. At the program where I teach--- an English language college in South Korea --- we have several analytic philosophers working on alethic pluralism, and none of them take heidegger seriously; none have even read Being and Time. I, as a German PhD who mostly teaches continental
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/10879/) - Written By: Gregory Fried Tom (in response to Richard Polt) asks: "Do you think it would help both scholars and their students if the three meanings of [clearing, significance, correctness] were clearly distinguished? If that were the case, how might we go about that?" I do think this is helpful: those three terms ---
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/10883/) - Written By: Lawrence Berger In concert with Graeme, I think about this in terms of the truth of being as discussed in Contributions. The truth of being is how being in its withdrawal is made manifest in the clearing. The manner in which is it made manifest depends upon the steadfastness of Da-sein. This
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/11140/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan Dear Alberto, I like your version of the dream better than Heidegger's! -- it's certainly funnier. I believe Boss recounts it in Erinnerung. As I recall, Heidegger dreams he is at his Arbitur exam (his highschool leaving exam), and is having difficulty with the answers. Once he settled on Ereignis,
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/12529/) - Written By: For what it's worth: A reference to Heidegger would be out of place in Sartwell's piece. Heidegger is concerned about being historical. Sartwell is talking about knowing history. The giveaway is when he says that "the philosophy of history is...a seductive project because...it seems to promise an understanding...of what might happen next."
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/8874/) - Written By: Jedidiah Mohring I don't usually contribute on the forum, but I had some time, so I did a rough translation of Dieter Thoma's report from Siegen. It's attached, and pasted to the email as well. Jed Mohring Can the undead die? By Dieter Thom The path of my travel led over Mt.
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/8875/) - Written By: Ellis Dye Dear Alonso, A bigger question for me is whether I am a good man. I am, though (at least), capable of gratitude when some thinker's thinking awakens me from my dogmatic slumbers. Ellis D.
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/9060/) - Written By: Arkadi Choufrine Tom--Radicalizing your question: can Ereignis (in the second sense of the two indicated here by David) be said to happen in time (thus, assigned a position on a time axis) at all?Some of H.'s pronouncements, as it seems to me, imply that he would have answered in the negative. ~Arkadi
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/10120/) - Written By: Gregory Fried Where does Heidegger leave us on ethics? Very simply, he leaves us in the lurch -- or, more strictly, in the abyss. For Heidegger, there can be no grounds, no principles, for ethics, unless that be the raw givenness of one's historical situatedness. And so we are back to das
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/10121/) - Written By: Arkadi Choufrine Dear B.— Thanks, this makes perfect sense. Yet it seemed to me that Crowell argues that Dasein’s is rational in a substantially stronger sense than conforming to the norms and being able to justify one’ action in terms of such conformity. I.e., he seems to be saying that a properly
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/10122/) - Written By: David Kleinberg-Levin Dear Greg:I agree with you in part: Heidegger certainly does put great emphasis on our groundlessness, hence the impossibility or absurdity of judgment and attempts at justification. And yet, he does in certain texts, point toward an "originary ethics"---or concerns that would typically be refarded as ethical. Moreover, as in the
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/10123/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan Dear Richard, You ask: "Where does Heidegger leave us?" Indeed. You'll recall his answer to a statement in his dialogue : Companion "I hardly know anymore who and where I am."Heidegger"None of us knows that, as soon as we stop fooling ourselves." (GA 77: 110.14--17) I n the
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/10124/) - Written By: David Kleinberg-Levin Well said, Tom! I concur. Heidegger leaves on our own! But I am not sure that he was entirely consistent. He threw around a n awful lot of words that sound like passing judgment on people and their lives as well as, more generally, on life in the modern
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/10347/) - Written By: Seibert, Charles (seiberch) Dear Richard Ackermann, Welcome to the Heidegger Circle. I was delighted to hear that your studies (with Prof. Wiseman & others) included the Heraclitus Seminar. Notices of my translation have been rare; it's good to hear it mentioned. You note, correctly, that there is little public understanding of why Heidegger matters
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/11374/) - Written By: Babette Babich Dear Richard, Of course, but Tom Owens was your teacher! Bill didn't arrive at BC until 1981 and he did not teach Heidegger when he came -- naturally this does not gainsay anything you say but this very foundational information will, I think, be important in (future) Capobianco studies. All
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/12283/) - Written By: adm\gfried Another "Hear, hear!" to Jennifer. I agree with her and with Ben. To move beyond merely superficial diversity to genuine inclusiveness will require a shift in tone and action, not just in percentages. Formal structures will help (I am particularly in favor of the shorter format panels and talks, although not
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/13143/) - Written By: William Britt Daniel, A couple of thoughts, not as integrated as Graeme's response. One is that it seems important to think in levels here. It's very strange to say that the future is not later than the continuing past (das Gewesene); why claim that? Presumably because he's trying to account for what
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/6465/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan You wrote:“In any case, he goes on almost immediately (p. 31) to say that "From the point of view of metaphysical thinking, the whole path of the lecture, that is, the determination of Being in terms of Ereignis, could be interpreted as a return to the ground, to the origin.
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/6856/) - Written By: David Kleinberg-Levin Yes, Richard, I fully agree with what you are arguing here. I was just trying out another way of talking about this same point as it were, from another angle. David.
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/6857/) - Written By: David Kleinberg-Levin Richard: Good morning! As I said, I fully agree. In my response, I was trying to connect the point for which you have been arguing to the thought that figures in Heidegger's recapitulation of the ancient Greek thaumazein, or wonder at the very fact of being: Why is there anything
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/6858/) - Written By: Nate Zuckerman I'm still left with a few questions: 1. How does that one quote fit into the broader context of the long lecture from which it is excerpted? (The same lecture, if I recall correctly, where Heidegger speaks at the end of being "needing" human beings, as the 'abode' in which
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/6860/) - Written By: Nate Zuckerman Good questions, Richard. I can't say I have a fully worked-out view. Where I do agree with the spirit of your point is in denying that being is merely relative to what Dasein understands being to mean. I think we have to deny this if we are to take seriously
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/6862/) - Written By: Nate Zuckerman I think that's fair enough!
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/6863/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan Dear Jeff and Richard, Is it the case that Being is that whereby all beings “come to be”? Surely that can’t mean “come to be at all” (i.e., come into existence) since such a position would have Being operate prior to, for example, the Cenozoic Era (some 65 million years
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/6865/) - Written By: Richard: While it just is Heidegger's way to answer question with question, I've always been haunted by the end of 'Being and Time.' "Hence the ecstatical projection of Being must be made possible by some primordial way in which ecstatical temporality temporalizes," and then the questions as to TIME. First, what I
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/6868/) - Written By: dweinberger I have been following this discussion not only with great interest, but a great sense of privilege. Thank you. It leads me to suggest a thought experiment. Imagine that two of the most learned and wisest scholars of Heidegger disagree about a fundamental issue in his thought. These scholars share a
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/6869/) - Written By: Babette Babich Dear David Weinberger, You raise a wonderfully reflective and provocative question and I am delighted by the hobby horse coda. Still you leave out one fairly obvious consideration, one or more of the learned scholars may simply fail to understand Heidegger and the debate (to my mind this is/cannot but
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/6871/) - Written By: Babette Babich Dear David, Allen, Eric, et al. The point, at least as I read Plato, of his musing reflections on the written text in the Phaedrus is that texts, indeed as such, remain untouched by interpretation. Now there's always the mischief editors and translators can do especially when it comes to
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/6872/) - Written By: dweinberger Allen's raising Old Testament interpretation I think is particularly apt, although I'm not saying what follows is what he intended by it. A friend of mine who is a superb Christian theologian once blogged that he felt terrible having to decide between two particular scholars on a point of exegesis. How
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/8330/) - Written By: Adam Knowles Dear Richard, Thanks. I think your probably right. Yet even if the entry came before Kristallnacht, it still leaves me with a general question: does the anti-Semitism in the Notebooks begin to appear with a corresponding upsurge of anti-Semitism in the population at large? Adam
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/11081/) - Written By: Christopher Ruth Henry, I clicked the link but which paper is it? "Thinking the Clearing in the Age of the Earth System"?
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/12068/) - Written By: Ian Moore Hi Everyone, I recall reading that Hans Jonas was asked to speak in Heidegger's stead, not that Heidegger rescinded the offer once he heard that Jonas would be there. Jonas challenged his Heidegger-enthused audience of theologians by pointing to the danger of using Heidegger's thought for theology. Best wishes, Ian
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/12069/) - Written By: Daniel Herskowitz And if memory serves, Jonas was called to sub for an ill Heidegger, who was supposed to deliver a paper. The deeply critical content of Jonas's paper came as a surprise to the audience, who expected a different tone from a former student of Heidegger, but he ended up receiving a standing ovation.
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/12070/) - Written By: Daniel Herskowitz If this is what you're talking about, you might also want to take a look at Paul L. Montgomery, Scholar Breaks with Heidegger , New York Times April 11, 1964. The conference was officially titled A Second Consultation on Herme neutics: Theological Discourse and the Proclamation of the Gospel . Best, Daniel Is
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/12072/) - Written By: Richard Ackermann Link is here: https://www.nytimes.com/1964/04/11/scholar-breaks-with-heidegger.html Richard Ackermann
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/7300/) - Written By: David Kleinberg-Levin I could not agree with Richard Polt's comments more wholeheartedly! In my earlier posting, I presented two plausible readings that could not be more divergent from one another. In keeping with his remarks, I would add that it is a pointless undertaking, as well as a misguided one, to read
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/7301/) - Written By: Paul Anthony Professor Polt, On the issue of translation in general: your Introduction to Metaphysics: Second Edition is due soon. What about the first edition translation did you find needed 'improving'? What about the previous translation or about your understanding of Heidegger necessitated a second edition?
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/7302/) - Written By: eric d. meyer In Martin Heidegger's texts, "das Ereignis" does sometimes appear to have two not entirely consistent "meanings": 1) "Das Ereignis" as "What gives...Being," that is, as a cosmic "event," a verb-ing or act-ing of be-ing, from which "Being" & "Non-Being" somehow emerge; and 2) "Das Ereignis" as a world-historical event
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/7626/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan Dear David, The term "ereignete Lichtung" is Heidegger's (GA 71: 211.8), not mine. The clearing does not "appropriate" Dasein, it is Dasein, as Heidegger says over and over again. Nor is Dasein "part" of the clearing, as has been claimed. Dasein is all of the clearing -- not because of
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/7627/) - Written By: David Kleinberg-Levin Good evening, Tom! Well, I know that the term "ereignete Lichtung" is MH's, not yours, but I am inclined to read it differently from you: the Lichtung is appropriating, it is an appropriating event, a Dasein-appropriating event, that has happened. It is not Dasein, but certainly appropriates Dasein, engages Dasein,
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/6596/) - Written By: Ellis Dye Dear Robert, Many heartfelt thanks. "Emily Running" reaches me just as I'm re-appreciating a Goethe poem about gingko trees, struggling against a new neighbor, who, offended by the fruit of female gingko trees in the fall, has persuaded the St. Paul City Forester to cut down the gingkos on the
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/6597/) - Written By: Charles de Souza I love Ginkgo trees (I have two in pots on my patio about to leaf out), I hope you can save them. Thanks for sharing Goethe on Ginkgo, didn't know that existed!
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/6598/) - Written By: Babette Babich Geeze but folks are fools. The problem is that we can cut down the trees and so we do not think about whether we have any right to do so. Tree Dasein in this case. Babette Babich Professor of Philosophy Fordham University, The Jesuit University of New York Executive Editor:
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/6599/) - Written By: Ellis Dye Well put, Babette--and deeply significant, in my opinion. Ellis
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/8010/) - Written By: ERIC J SANDBERG Bob: You've really opened up a wonderful can of worms that I hadn't given much thought to with what is essentially a mind-Dasein problem (simple displacement?), the difficulties of which are eluded in B&T. Does the whole Heideggerian edifice come tumbling down on the inability to 'elegantly' integrate the
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/12217/) - Written By: sch289 Dear Professor Polt,In regards to your question, you might want to consider the following passages from one of Heidegger's later lectures (1951-52), Was Heist Denken (GA 8). The last sentence here is translated by Wieck and Gray as "It would be a mistake, then, for us to take the view that
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/12223/) - Written By: adm\gfried Many thanks to Babette for the excellent summary of recent writings on this topic. Enough for a semester's seminar! The passages that Richard P cites from GA 97 leave me to wonder what to make of a comparison between Heidegger's rather Nietzschean understanding of Jehovah as The One Chosen God and
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/12257/) - Written By: adm\gfried Dear Colleagues, First, many thanks to Julia Ireland for the excellent synopsis of the issues and for her leadership in getting them before us, both at the last meeting and now. I would like to address here the question of the "analytic Heideggerians" (aH) and/vs. the "Continental Heideggerians" (CH). This is
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/12258/) - Written By: Babette Babich Dear Greg, I am not sure that 'continental' approaches to Heidegger, in the older robust sense of the term, are overly abundant on the HC programs I have seen, Indeed, such approaches have been on the wane for years now. What is more even some of the big debates on
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/12229/) - Written By: Bret Davis Regarding the Anwesen question, recall the crucial distinction H makes in "Zeit and Sein" (I believe -- I am in Japan and so cannot check now) between "Anwesen lassen" and "Anwesen lassen." Unfortunately the Stambaugh translation did not reproduce the crucial italics! H's claim is that the Greeks thought the
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/12259/) - Written By: Shane Ewegen All: I would like to offer a counter-argument, offered out of friendship, concerning the issue of analytic interpretations of Heidegger. Greg suggested that we are putting graduate students at a disadvantage if we do not train them (in part, at least) in analytic philosophy. This, of course, is correct, given
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/12260/) - Written By: Gregory Fried Thank you, Babette. I have read your conversation with Chris Bateman linked below, which I recommend to anyone who wants to understand better where you take your stand, as it is an important position. I do also recommend to folks your follow-up interview with Bateman, "What is Continental Philosophy?", where you
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/12261/) - Written By: Gregory Fried Dear Shane, Much of my response to Babette goes to what you say below, too. The danger of the self-fulfilling prophesy may be real, but it is best countered by a spirit of vigorous openness. I may have a less exclusivist conception of what philosophical training involves, but the challenge,
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/12262/) - Written By: sorrowandsmiles Greg: Thanks for the email. I agree with everything you said up to the last line -- or, rather, I don't think that your last line accurately reflects the point I tried to make in my previous email. I am not recommending 'retreat, isolation, or quarantine' -- indeed, anything but. Instead,
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/5594/) - Written By: David Weinberger Excellent, but not particularly Heideggerian, and more historical than philosophical: The Measure of Reality: Quantification and Western Society, 1250-1600, by Alfred W. Crosby. He stresses the importance of music in the history of Western quantification. It does make you wonder: If Heidegger responded more to music or dance than to
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/7395/) - Written By: Babette Babich argumentum ad populumotherwise known as the bandwagon fallacy...still a fallacy even if Nietzsche, clocks in an 8. But consider the source of the votes: these are Leiter acolyte tabulations, the same sort of 'poll' Leiter to ran to try to compel the APA to recall Linda Alcoff as elected vice-president
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/7624/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan Dear Reg, This is a delicious post and I wish I could get to all of it. But the damned deadline prevents me. So (painfully) only the briefest and limited answer s : (1) What are 3 important things that Heidegger tells us about Bedeutsamkeit after 1930? 1. That this
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/7625/) - Written By: David Kleinberg-Levin In regard to Tom's #2 below: I would say, not "appropriated clearing (die ereignete Lichtung)" but "appropriating clearing": that difference is crucial & decisive. The use of "appropriated" suggests the reduction of the appropriating event of the Lichtung (the Lichtung that has happened, if you prefer)to a function of Dasein.DKL.*********************************************************
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/7724/) - Written By: eric d. meyer Dear Eric S.: Yes, Ezra Pound is the other case who comes to mind. Pound gave radio talks on Italian fascist radio in which he tried to somehow (often incoherently) bring together the US Constitution and Mussolini's fascism. Mostkly, he wanted to stop WWII, before it happened... He did
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/7725/) - Written By: eric d. meyer Dear Prof. Polt: I have begun an article addressing, not those passages specifically, since I lack the context, but the passages you and Prof. Fried cite from Being & Truth and Nature History State. I do, in fact, disagree with your (& Faye's) interpretation of those passages. I would
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/7726/) - Written By: ERIC J SANDBERG Richard: Is it germane to the conversation as to just why Heidegger let these journals be published at all? Is there 'confession' enough here? Confession, perhaps as Heidegger understood from Augustine? It really is perplexing. Otherwise hoping your having a great semester, E
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/7728/) - Written By: eric d. meyer Dear Prof. Sheehan: Excuse me if I misconstrue your repeated comments about Martin Heidegger's Seinsgeschichte. I've been asking for comments on my posts in response to your questions addressed to me for some time. But hasn't your point been that Martin Heidegger's post-Kehre "thinking of Being" as Seinsgeschichte places an excessively
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/7729/) - Written By: eric d. meyer Dear Prof. Polt: I hope to get back to you later. But in the meanwhile, I ask: Was there "privacy" in Stalinist Russia or Nazi Germany? Couldn't you hear "the voice" of Hitler or Stalin pretty much everywhere, all the time? Which is exactly the meaning of "State
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/7730/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan Dear Mr. Meyer, Please supply the citation from anything I've written or said that directly and unambiguously supports your claim in the original email. Otherwise, I see no reason to continue this exchange. Tom Sheehan Thomas Sheehan Stanford University Stanford, CA 94305-2165 650 723-3322http://religiousstudies.stanford.edu/people/tom-sheehan/
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/7731/) - Written By: eric d. meyer Dear Prof. Polt: On re-re-reading your post, it appears you think that I'm foreclosing the capacity to think critically about Martin Heidegger's "Nazism," "anti-Semitism," and/or "racism," by suggesting that those questions might be better raised in an atmosphere other than that of denunciation and purge, as I believe is
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/7732/) - Written By: Babette Babich Dear Richard, You, as always very attentively, very sensitively, raise a range of hugely complex questions, and I think you rightly point to an issue that deserves further discussion in Plato (to be sure!) and in Nietzsche's Genealogy -- I've received the notebooks and am working through them, the old
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/7734/) - Written By: Babette Babich Dear Richard, I had earlier seen -- and I thank you for reminding me! -- for your translations, but such is the suffusion of things, I had overlooked locus! I think issues of intention are fehl am Platz here ... for all the reasons you note. To me, eternal student
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/8114/) - Written By: eric d. meyer Dear Prof. Polt: "The impossibility of representing Nazism stems from the fact that, under a state of total terror, subjective freedom ceases to exist..." --garbled quote from TW Adorno, Minima Moralia I might agree with you, if we were talking about the banal, humdrum, everyday existence of most people,
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/8115/) - Written By: eric d. meyer Dear Heideggerians: Here's the exact quotes from TW Adorno's Minima Moralia, which I garbled. ...The impossibility of representing Fascism springs from the fact that in it, as in its contemplation, subjective freedom no longer exists. Total unfreedom can be recognized, but not represented. (MM #94, 144). What the National
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/8721/) - Written By: ERIC J SANDBERG Hello All: Richard points out that Heidegger condemns the 'Allies" in the counter breath of his condemnation of Hitler's Nazism. Might he have been right? Might Anglo-Americanism be constituted by an equally vicious 'will to will? (Certainly Stalinism was. [?]) I'm not saying it is, I'm only insisting on
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/8722/) - Written By: antoniouk Dear Eric, Thanks for your comments. However, I cannot agree with you. The problem cannot -- and will not -- be overcome by saying that "it is much larger". Should we use the Heideggerian argument: "he got trapped in his own Seinsgeschichte...modernity sucked him into the Leviathan's maw"? I, for one,
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/8724/) - Written By: Richard Hammond Good morning (for me, at least), This is perhaps an odd first post for me in this forum, but I am towards the end of my PhD, am a 'card carrying Heideggerian', and have spent quite a lot of time -- as I believe we all have done (or, at
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/8726/) - Written By: Stephan Fuchs Dear All, At this point, I can see only two possibilities for Heidegger Studies to proceed. Either we believe that Heideggers Nazism IS his philosophy -- including the Daseinsanalytic, the phenomenology of mood, the analysis of the Gestell (via Max Weber: the cage, not "enframing"), and the lectures on the
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/8727/) - Written By: David Kleinberg-Levin Stephen: I can accept neither of these alternatives: a false dilemma. Whilst I do not in the least believe that everything he wrote is corrupted by Heidegger s Nazism, and unequivocally reject the first horn, I must consider it an irresponsible perpetuation of Heidegger s error to isolate die Sache
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/8728/) - Written By: antoniouk Dear Stephan (if I may), I tend to agree with David's points. Let me add just few thoughts. I do not think that, as scholars, we are obliged to decide between alternatives...as I have previously written "we need to explain"... I for one follow the motto "comprendre c'est pardonner"... However, allow
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/8729/) - Written By: Theodore Kisiel Dear Richard, In your reading of GA 97, have you found any continuation of Heidegger's belief in a Jewish world conspiracy by a "dangerous international alliance of Jews" bent on taking over the media and financial institutions of the most advanced national economies a la Rothschild, Wall Street Jews, etc., which
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/8730/) - Written By: Jethro Masís Dear all: Here are some passages in the so far published 'Black Notebooks' (GA 94-96) concerning the 'Jews'. The 'Jews' are mentioned in different contexts which are repeating:- they name the tradition - in compound words like 'christian-jewish' or 'Hellenian-Jewish' (tradition) - in which the anthropological concept of 'man' is
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/8732/) - Written By: Theodore Kisiel Richard, vielen vielen Dank for your immediate thorough response and your meticulous scholarship on this matter. Ted >>> "Polt, Richard" 3/29/2015 11:32 AM >>>
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/10849/) - Written By: Joachim Kübler Indeed, Richard. Disturbing stuff... Since I'm a student and - regarding Heidegger and his philosophy - kind of a beginner: I wonder, whether and how it is possible to divide his life (and of course his political, uhm, views) from his philosophy? Best, Joachim Menschsein hei t schon philosophieren." Heidegger:
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/10852/) - Written By: Mahon O Brien
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/10853/) - Written By: Theodore Kisiel A partial response to Mahon O'Brien's thoughtful critique of my review of his book, HEIDEGGER, HISTORY AND THE HOLOCAUST. More responses later Ted K. Re. 2. His long citation starting with "Such hermeneutic concepts..." should be prefaced by the intent behind this text, namely, Heidegger's running argument against the generic and common universal
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/10854/) - Written By: Mahon O Brien Thanks for these responses and clarifications - I only have a few minutes to spare before heading to a meeting so I cannot answer these points in any kind of satisfactory fashion. So, I will try to offer a bit more over the weekend. However, just a couple of
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/10855/) - Written By: Joachim Kübler Dear Richard, thank you so much for your help. To be honest, I used to be a an advocate of No.3 - Heidegger was naive and thought - and maybe thought, that he would become some kind of philosopher-king under Nazi rule. But of course: His fantasy facism is disturbing
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/6206/) - Written By: nate zuckerman Sorry for the late reply on this, Jeff. I was suggesting that a kind/way of being is distinct from a region of being, in that many regions of being (the chemical, the biological, the physical) can share the same way of being (presence-at-hand). The concept (category) of presence-at-hand alone is
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/6366/) - Written By: nate zuckerman My own take, in a nutshell, is that Heidegger was aiming at a radically historical point of view in BT, but came to believe that the mode of presentation in that text was itself too ahistorical. In the '30s, then, he tries to think more historically and gets into a
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/6681/) - Written By: Henry Dicks Personally, I would argue that the Gestell has grown in importance since Heidegger first proposed it. From this perspective, the limitation of Heidegger s thinking about the Gestell is that he himself did not pursue it far enough, either in the QCT or in later texts. Recent work on or
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/6682/) - Written By: Henry Dicks Richard - Many thanks for your latest post. I very much see where you re coming from regarding the Gestell, but I m not sure I fully agree with two of the points you make. 1.As long as one focuses solely on the interpretation of nature as Bestand, then it
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/6684/) - Written By: Henry Dicks I ve never really thought much about the difference between the information age and the internet age, so I can t really comment on that. I agree, though, that the internet is not only a means of exchanging information and that it is not fully subsumable under the Gestell. The
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/6687/) - Written By: Babette Babich Thanks for this reference Richard! I look forward to reading it.
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/6689/) - Written By: Henry: How did Derrida get conscripted here. He was an unabashed defender of Heidegger's 'philosophy' and called Heidegger an inexhaustible reserve and was adamant that we 'all' look in our own hearts to seek out the Nazi within. That being said, read Babette's thanx . . . Thanking by thinking, E
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/8608/) - Written By: Stephan Fuchs Wolin is a hack who can neither read nor write. Stephan Fuchs On Mon, 2 Mar 2015 22:50:38 +0000 "Polt, Richard" wrote: Wolin calls his piece "Heidegger's Philosophy of Violence." But Heidegger writes in the Black Notebooks: "The stupid obstinacy of mere violence-doing becomes the tool of inner destruction"
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/10325/) - Written By: Gregory Fried I am torn on this issue. On the one side, virtually no academic expects to earn much more than pizza money on royalties for their published work. They get paid salaries, which gives them the freedom to do research. In that sense, we are receiving resources from society for the
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/10326/) - Written By: Paul Anthony You might want to ask a more relevant related question since a number of members of the Heidegger Circle have already answered in the affirmative by sending blank flash drives to your colleague: should all books be free? Before I sound exceptionally self righteous, I must admit that in the past
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/10327/) - Written By: Babette Babich Yes, for all of David's reasons but also for the sake of science. An sich. Babette Babich z. Zt., Fulbright Professor , Humboldt University, Berlin Fordham Faculty Fellowship Leave: Fall 2015-Summer 2016 Professor of Philosophy Fordham University, The Jesuit University of New York Executive Editor: New Nietzsche Studies Web Page:
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/10427/) - Written By: Richard Hammond Thanks for the contributions/thoughts. I'm about 8 weeks out from submitting my thesis so I find it hard to offer any snapshot thoughts of my own, as everything is revealed as hermeneutically circular and bound together (for e.g I can't speak of mythos without Sorge, even though they are two
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/11830/) - Written By: Shane Ewegen Tom: Your foray into Aristotle was very helpful in thinking through this issue -- thank you for it. I want to add, very briefly, one potential complication. In GA 55, Heidegger analyzes at length the relationship of the human being to ; and, for the most part, everything you've said
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/11831/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan Dear Shane, This is very important, thank you. Could you provide the page in GA 55? Tom
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/11832/) - Written By: sorrowandsmiles Tom: Sure thing --- 328 and ff. Really, though, that entire section of the volume is focused on this very problem. All the best, Shane.
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/12279/) - Written By: Gary R. Brown Everyone has probably seen this, but just in case, in relation to these animal postsThe heartbreaking story of Tahlequah, the orca mother who won't let go of her dead baby and still clings to its corpse more than a week after losing her newborn, continues to shake the world.The
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/6618/) - Written By: Dear Tom (if I may), Many thanks for your excellent, detailed Gesamtausgabe and ETs bibliography. That is a gift that will keep on giving. I have also found Richard Polt's fine bibliography very helpful in the last few years. Ellis Dye
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/8406/) - Written By: Babette Babich The precise beauty of Derrida's point is that one need not choose... although literally the term refers not to a flower but a turning to the sun, tracking the sun, for the sake of measurement, which is what Gauss's invention does.... ah, technology Babette Babich Professor of Philosophy Fordham University,
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/11123/) - Written By: Christopher Ruth Anyone know Alan Wood's take on the lying thing? He makes much of what constitutes a "declaration," and in general basically says Kant thinks ethics can't be too abstract and rigid...but I need to read his book to really evaluate the argument. Off the topic of Heidegger I know, but
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/11490/) - Written By: Thanks, Richard. This is really insightful, I think. Like Babette, I will be looking for your piece in the collection, if I can turn the cover quickly enough to avoid seeing "Anthropocene." I have problems with the idea of a geological age that started in 1950 and is named after the minds
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/12376/) - Written By: Reginald Lilly Oy! I know I've "vigorously confronted" others on this listserve, and I've never been censured for it, nor officially or unofficially 'warned.' Life went on. Life is short. Please unsubscribe me. Regards, Reg Lilly
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/12377/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan Thanks for your message, Alberto. John Rose spoke in the name of the Executive Committee, which is taking the Circle in a direction I cannot agree with. I can only image how colleagues like Bill Richardson and Reiner Sch rmann would react to the imposition of a gag order, not
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/12378/) - Written By: antoniouk Dear all, I totally agree with Alberto's message. I don't see anything wrong with Tom's post of August 17, 2018. I personally find the Executive Committee's disciplinary tone and attitude unnecessary and objectionable. King regards, Antonio Il giorno sab 15 set 2018 alle ore 09:39 Thomas Sheehan ha scritto: Thanks
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/7100/) - Written By: eric d. meyer Dear Prof. Sheehan & All: I'd certainly agree that Martin Heidegger's interpretation of Greek ousia in the early texts (from the mid-1920s to the mid-1930s) like Basic Concepts of Aristotelian Philosophy (1924?) can be read in a "proto-phenomenological" sense (...or would that be a "post-phenomneological" sense?...), in which ousia
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/8990/) - Written By: Babette Babich Well, at least to this reader, that take of yours also seems a "pretty shallow reading" of both JMB and a very gullible reading of economics. Note how all the "power of human innovative know-how (technology)" is spectacularly not helping Greece much less ameliorating in any way the anthropo-obscenity that
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/9005/) - Written By: Ian Moore Thanks, David, for this clarification, and for your question, Tom. I agree that we should distinguish between different senses of Gelassenheit, but I would do so a little differently. I would say that, at the most fundamental level, there is what might be called (1) 'existential-ontological Gelassenheit,' which we could
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/9006/) - Written By: David Kleinberg-Levin Thank you, Ian, for your comments.Ontic Gelassenheit would pertain to letting-be- and letting-go in any particular situation; it s existentiell. And yes, it could very well be indifference or neglect, as when one lets the person drown because, after all, that s the way things are. Obviously a twisted, pathological
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/9007/) - Written By: Christopher Ruth I don't think we can maintain the ontic-ontological distinction in the Memorial Address instance. Ge-Stell is the seizure of beings as resource, the enactment of the meaning of beingness "Bestand" through our technological interface with nature, and in that sense "Ge-stell" is an enacted or operationalized metaphysics, so the different
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/9008/) - Written By: Yifeng Peng Is there any danger of making the ontic-ontological difference, when there is not enough ontic? And indeed, I tend to think it is often the case that there is not enough ontic, particularly when it comes to technology. What's the ontological experience with say, a plastic bottle? Most people tend
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/9009/) - Written By: David Kleinberg-Levin Dear Yifeng Peng:I shall try to answer the questions you have addressed to me. I am not sure I grasp them, however. I would agree that, in general, most people have limited knowledge of the provenance, Herkunft, of the things in their life, as well as all sorts of other
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/9010/) - Written By: Yifeng Peng Hi Eric, How interesting you brought up the fourfold of plastic bottle, I think this is precisely what I meant, or maybe not precisely, something like the danger of making ontological difference when there is not enough ontic. It is easy to treat plastic bottle as" the very paradigm of
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/9011/) - Written By: Yifeng Peng Dear Prof. Kleinberg-Levin, Thanks for your reply. I think I am in complete agreement with you that the ontological difference is extremely important. But I tended to think the ontological difference is, to a great extend, pedagogically extremely important. This might be a crude way to put it, it teaches
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/9150/) - Written By: David Kleinberg-Levin
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/9157/) - Written By: R. Dye Dear Friends, As for "troubled," the German phrase for "fishing in troubled waters" is "im Tr ben fischen." In Schubert's song "Die Forelle," the fisherman "machtdas B chlein t ckisch tr be," I guess in order to obscure his presence to the unsuspecting trout (which does not seem a brilliant
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/9158/) - Written By: R. Dye As for "troubled," the German phrase for "fishing in troubled waters" is "im Tr ben fischen." In Schubert's song "Die Forelle," the fisherman "machtdas B chlein t ckisch tr be," I guess in order to obscure his presence to the unsuspecting trout (which does not seem a brilliant trick to
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/9160/) - Written By: Ian Moore Thanks, Richard, for drawing our attention to Heidegger's Melville citation, and to everyone who responded. You all may be interested to know that Arendt sent Heidegger a copy of Billy Budd in 1972, which Heidegger says he began reading in September of that year. Unfortunatly, he does not convey any
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/9836/) - Written By: Arkadi Choufrine My hunch is that solitude is not to be confused with loneliness. One could argue that solitude is a sine qua non of authentically connecting to others, and WWW is an historically unprecedented means for that. This, in my view, explains David W.'s experience, with which I can easily identify.
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/9838/) - Written By: Arkadi Choufrine Alberto: I am not claiming that "solitude" is a fully positive term in English (which is not my native language, btw) but only that, unlike "loneliness," it seems value-neutral (or, as you say, ambivalent). Yet, I have to admit, I am sympathetic to monastic ( = "alone") tradition with its
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/10478/) - Written By: Gregory Fried This is very well put, David! You ask this question: But what would forgiveness for the dead Heidegger look like or feel like? Let's for the moment stipulate that Heidegger the Human was an anti-Semitic, elitist, sexist, arrogant little sh*t. Now forgive him for this. What has changed? Is there
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/11480/) - Written By: Gregory Fried In the end, David, I would say that it would not even matter, although it might be nice, to find support for that reading in Heidegger. (I also am inclined to agree with it.) Is it not ultimately in die Sache selbst that we should look for support for reading" the
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/11481/) - Written By: I would be interested to know from David, Richard, and perhaps others who repudiate all "seinsgeschichtlich phantasmagoria" what effect this has on their reading of Heidegger's idea that the Western tradition of "philosophy" is ending/culminating in technoscience and there is now the task of working out a "free relation" with it. The
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/12332/) - Written By: rcscharff Me, too, Tom. Bob Sent from my iPhone
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/6261/) - Written By: Christopher Ruth For my money that reads better than "sway" in those passages.
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/7407/) - Written By: ERIC J SANDBERG Derek: Some good stuff here. Let me tiptoe over the 'topos.' The step back in 'logic' is one of the principle gestures of Heiderrida. It just is a strategy for thinking the different together. Do I think Heidegger might have shown of different mind today about technology. He'd be
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/7408/) - Written By: ERIC J SANDBERG Richard: To much of this, amen. But you didn't attach the paper that I can see. If you don't mind sharing . . . As to Plato and language (writing), see Ewegen's Cratylus: The Comedy of Language. Plato is shown as peremptory of 'modern theory.' It's really heady stuff,
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/7409/) - Written By: Derek Smith Just a joke. I meant: "No one seems as interested in arguing about Heidegger's ideas concerning language as they are about arguing about technology."
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/7410/) - Written By: ERIC J SANDBERG Richard: I've hung it up on the wall as more than just a hoot! Regards, E
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/7411/) - Written By: dweinberger So much to think about! Too many points I want to reply to. First, Richard, it's a hilarious presentation of a position I disagree with. Nicely done. Derek, you have helped explain why I don't think we can fruitfully discuss whether the Net more firmly entrenches or disrupts the Gestell. I
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/7412/) - Written By: Derek Smith David wrote: "As I understand it (a flag that I probably don't understand it), when we are dealing with a particular historical way of Being such as the Gestell, Heidegger's phenomenological ontology requires us to start with the phenomenon. No?" As I remember it (and I'm at work waiting for
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/7413/) - Written By: dweinberger Nicely done, Derek. And yet, don't you think that Heidegger came to his description of what modern tech reveals at least in part by looking at the hydroelectric dam and the power lines over head? Or do we think that Heidegger's reading of the history of Being is so hermetic and
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/7414/) - Written By: Derek Smith That is why I am trying to avoid examples in my last few posts, so we can get out of that loop. I don't doubt that he looked at what lay around him, of course, but it might not be the case that we can ONLY start there. Perhaps we
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/7415/) - Written By: dweinberger Really helpful. You may have brought us to the core of our disagreement. I'm not against examples. I think they put the "phenomenological" into phenomenological ontology. But they also create hermeneutic circles that don't intersect when people (like you and me) disagree about what the phenomena are and disclose. Hence my
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/7416/) - Written By: Derek Smith I like the way you framed your last line: "make progress on the question." Since that is what Heidegger was claiming as well, not to have an answer that we can store in a box some where and feel like we had gotten it "right," that might be the best
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/8764/) - Written By: ERIC J SANDBERG Richard: The 'truth' of your position can be heard in the displacement that Heidegger makes in the "Beitrage" from the 'understanding' of Being to the 'truth' of be-ing. The 'agency' (human) dropping out of the equation resounds like 'dullthuding barrels." --------------------------------------------
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/8765/) - Written By: Nate Zuckerman Thanks Richard. I've been thinking about this (while enjoying your book & Tom's!), and, as I can't help doing, returning to Kant, in the following way: I think you clearly have a point, that Dasein neither creates nor settles anything pertaining to being as such; and that there could not
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/5802/) - Written By: Miles Groth Dear Tom,I've extracted the text from the site and it is attached.All best, Miles Attachments-116/A Philosopher in the Twilight.doc
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/5803/) - Written By: Miles Groth Yes, that is the article. I've extracted the text and attached it. Attachments-115/A Philosopher in the Twilight.doc
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/5804/) - Written By: sean mcwillie Hi Tom; I ran into the same issue - this is the google cache version: https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:mtBqs_uWv5wJ:www.firstthings.com/article/2011/01/a-philosopher-in-the-twilight+http://www.firstthings.com/article/2011/01/a-philosopher-in-the-twilight&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us&client=firefox-a&source=www.google.com - Sean
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/5805/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan Thanks much, Miles. I’ve just printed it out. Best, Tom From: heideggercircle@googlegroups.com [mailto:heideggercircle@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Miles Groth
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/5806/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan Thanks, Pete. I tried a work-around and was able to get it. Best, Tom From: heideggercircle@googlegroups.com [mailto:heideggercircle@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of That Pete
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/5807/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan Dear Sean, Thanks for your help. I managed to us a work-around to get to the text, which I look forward to reading. Best regards, Tom
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/5849/) - Written By: Miles Groth Thanks, David. I've had a few hours' response of about 6 people. I think the responses would be interesting mostly to others in the group, if not to a broader group. Miles
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/5944/) - Written By: Nobuya Ochinero Dear Richard,I want to thank Thomas Sheehan for his essay in the following way: Thank you Doctor Sheehan for your essay. As I am forever a novice in Heideggerian thinking, all I can say is that I have seen in Heidegger through your essay the importance of the notion of
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/5946/) - Written By: Nate Zuckerman Thanks for posting this, Tom. It lives up to your standard of careful attention to quotations, context and clarity that I admire in your writing. Here are a few questions which I hope are relevant enough to be constructive for both your own thought and the Heidegger Circle group conversation:
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/6737/) - Written By: Babette Babich I could not agree more regarding Richard's reflections on Heidegger and translation. This goes a good deal towards telling us why Heidegger would vary Feuerbach and Brillat-Savarin as he did when he wrote 'tell me what you think of translation and I will tell you who you are...' -- single
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/6794/) - Written By: Babette Babich Yes, it does (and it is also on the internet).
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/6795/) - Written By: Babette Babich ... see locus here -- where it is referenced to the Cahier de L Herne: Heidegger , pp. 66-69.
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/6796/) - Written By: Babette Babich (sorry for staccato email) to repeat : where it is referenced to Cahier de L Herne: Heidegger , pp. 66-69 and dated 10/22/1927 The date for the French collection on Heidegger (a classic) is '83.
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/7747/) - Written By: eric d. meyer Dear Prof. Hatab: Thanks for your comments, which jibe with my feelings about the current edition of The Denazification Trials. Your first point (1)) is a comment, not a question. But I will respond to your question: From what standpoint are they coming? By my reading, E. Faye is
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/12037/) - Written By: Nathaniel Ozunko Wouldn't Heidegger see any possible anthropology as just part of the "historiological interpretation" of human Da-Sein that continues the tradition of the metaphysical subject that he sees as reaching it's end (or wishes it was)? More or less as something that continues to avoid or mask an ever-increasing anthropomorphization? Get
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/12038/) - Written By: Regarding the idea that "as Heidegger engages psychology in philosophical critique as well as physics, so he would engage anthropology," isn't the point to see human practices phenomenologically and for what they "are," rather than either reject them or let them continue thinking of themselves "metaphysically"? Of course, that would leave open
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/12041/) - Written By: Corey Dansereau Bob, this makes a lot of sense but when i got to the end my question was: but isn't the metaphysical (i.e. the onto-theological constitution of objectiveness and universality) itself something to which we should apply your demand that we "see human practices phenomenologically and for what they 'are' rather
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/12042/) - Written By: Corey, Good questions. I think "Is metaphysics a human practice?" contains important ambiguities. If "metaphysics" refers to a system of concepts taken to be either really or ideally the Full Story of the Totality of Everything (or of Nature or History or Beauty or Justice or...), then the kindest thing one
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/12043/) - Written By: Corey, My apologies. The last three sentences--after I revised them--should read: On this issue, I think Heidegger would generally agree with this assessment of scientific theory as it has generally been understood through the mid-20th century (i.e., about its being about "known knowledge"). But object to Comte's optimism--that is, to his
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/12440/) - Written By: Richard Ackermann Thanks Richard, that's at least encouraging. Now I'll have to up my game to write one of those papers. Would love to see more papers that make more connections across texts. I'm currently seeing how Origin of the Work Art offers some illumination on the very terse Fourfold. Best, Richard
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/12455/) - Written By: David, Dave, Richart, et al.- Amen to all that, but there is still a problem. On some construals of "generalization," "abstracting," and "analogizing," we will not be hard pressed to find computers that at least "behaviorally" qualify as displaying these characteristics. (Checked the performance of the latest interations of Watson lately?)
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/12464/) - Written By: Richard (and David), Yes, it's the "shockingly ready" part that concerns me. My experience with computer and AI people in the field (including my son-in-law, who is a Senior Technical Staff member at IBM, working on the Watson project) is similar to David W's. These are not people who spend their
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/12467/) - Written By: Richard Ackermann I haven't read it yet, but Dreyfus published "On the Internet (Thinking in Action)" in 2001. Richard A.
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/12469/) - Written By: Michael, One of Bert's last forays into the AI controversy that you might like is attached (it's also partially anthologized in the Scharff-Dusek Philosophy of Technology anthology). Bob Attachments-118/Dreyfus- 'Why Heideggerian AI Failed...,'in Husbands, et al., The Mechanical Mind in History (MIT, 2008).pdf
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- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/12472/) - Written By: Oops. Sorry. Pressed the wrong button. I was about to say that I like Bert's willingness to leave open just how close to a fully phenomenological take on human be-ing some future AI geniuses might come. The point, as the title says, is keep the contrast between being human and what is
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/12474/) - Written By: Richard Ackermann And integral to having a body is knowing it can perish. Animals, poor in world, have instincts to ensure they do their utmost to save their perishable bodies. Humans occupy yet another level in knowing they will die. Care intrinsically follows. So we can safely say machines (and artificial life)
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/12487/) - Written By: William Britt Dear David W., Thanks for a fascinating discussion. I, too, look forward to your book. I wonder about a couple of the things you have been saying to Justin. First, you speak of "human reason." Is that merely intended to contrast with ML (there's the sort of things we do,
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/12488/) - Written By: Babette Babich Dear David, It is always good to read these exchanges -- I see more basic problems, of course. And write about some of them here. https://medium.com/amor-mundi/martin-heidegger-and-g%C3%BCnther-anders-on-technology-on-ray-kurzweil-fritz-lang-and-transhumanism-a48a4c123c09Especially in the notes, but who reads notes? All bestBabette
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/13011/) - Written By: Eric Hovland I would second John's enthusiasm for this book. I bought it for Crowell's "Locating the First-Person in Being and Time," hoping it would help with a project of mine, but I was glad to find all of the essays engaging. Especially Nicholson's "The Constitution of Our Being," McNeill's "The Genesis
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/13013/) - Written By: Eric Hovland Hi John. >From reading your blog posts, it seems to me that you are definitely on the right track. I suspect once you dive into SZ you will find it is not quite as opaque as you remember. My sense is that there is an initial chasm of confusion especially
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/12397/) - Written By: David, I don't think we disagree on the level of what you say here. But I'm interested in "what goes on for 'us' in the thinking of this grounding"--if Heidegger is right to say that authentically speaking, this "individualizes" us. Of course, one could just proudly avoid this question with a
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/12398/) - Written By: Silvia Benso Dear all, I have never written on this forum, but please allow me to point you to a volume (arguably one of his best works) specifically on Heidegger (and Nietzsche) by Vattimo that is going to appear with SUNY Press in the spring. You can find relevant information here: http://www.sunypress.edu/p-6676-beyond-the-subject.aspx.
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/12966/) - Written By: Shane Ewegen Bob: I find these to be wonderful and enriching thoughts. If I can pose an additional question, I would appreciate your further thoughts. If I recall correctly, Heidegger's later work uses the term 'phenomenology' less and less, until it is not consistently used at all. The word metaphysics, for its
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/12970/) - Written By: sorrowandsmiles Richard: Could you helpfully point to any passages from GA 55 that suggest that Heidegger wants to identify his thinking as metaphysical in any sense whatsoever? Every single passage I can find suggests the contrary: he is consistently critical of metaphysics 'of any kind' in GA 55. I see no indication
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/12974/) - Written By: Hi David, et al., I'm with you on this one. Familar as the passage is, what Heidegger says in 1963 about phenomenology is, I think, too often ignored: "...in what is most its own phenomenology is not a school. It is the possiblity of thinking, at times changing and only thus
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/12975/) - Written By: Shane Ewegen Thank you all -- this is all very helpful. Especially fruitful is trying to understand Heidegger's position with respect to phenomenology. It makes sense to me to say that Heidegger did phenomenology from beginning to end, though it remains somewhat confounding to me that he ceased to use the term
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/12979/) - Written By: Shane Ewegen Richard (Colledge): Thank you for your very clear and thoughtful reply, which proposes a amicable way of moving forward. Such a conceptual division makes a good amount of sense to me. My one enduring reservation is that Heidegger himself (as you noted) does not refer to his thinking as metaphysical;
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/12982/) - Written By: Hi Wayne, I completely agree with your first sentence, but not about what your say regarding hermeneutics. His earliest use of the term goes with the idea that the task of hermeneutics is to consider "what goes on in [a] philosophy before it becomes what it is"--with the clear implication that
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/12986/) - Written By: Shane Ewegen Richard (Colledge): This is exceedingly helpful -- thank you so much. (Heidegger doesn't make anything easy, does he!) Pointing to these texts certainly helps enrich the discussion. I want to go and read the texts you've referenced to get a greater sense of context, but everything you've said here makes
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/12989/) - Written By: rcscharff In terms of what understanding of time do you think Whitehead developed his conception of process? Sent from my iPhone
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/12992/) - Written By: I have read PR. I took two graduate seminars on it with a Whiteheadan. Richard's citation does nothing to dissuade me from sharing Wayne's skepticism. Besides, implying that disagreement is based on someone else's failing to read what one is personally already convinced is right is not helpful to dialogue.
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/9553/) - Written By: Babette Babich Thanks to Richard, and thanks to to Bob Scharf who sent an answer to this question! Yay for the mathematics genealogy project! And thus emboldened for scholarly archival and other reasons bearing on my own research on the phenomenology of music and sound : does anyone remember Joseph Smith one
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/9554/) - Written By: Babette Babich I left out as I seem to do on this wretched keyboard the final f! The kind respondent was, of course, Bob Scharff Babette Babich Fulbright Fellow , Humboldt University, Berlin Fordham Faculty Fellowship Leave: Fall 2015-Summer 2016 Professor of Philosophy Fordham University, The Jesuit University of New York Executive
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/9555/) - Written By: Babette Babich Note p.7 on Smith https://www.academia.edu/18097431/In_Memoriam_Letter_for_Peter_Manchesters_Promotion_to_Full_Professor
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/9559/) - Written By: Jedidiah Mohring Andrew, It's tough German. You may have mistranslated a part of the passage. Here's what I came up with: "In the sacrifice, a hidden thanks comes into its own in the open, that only recognizes grace(,) as that which Being itself has appropriated over to the essence of the human
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/10451/) - Written By: antoniouk Dear Richard and Laurence, many thanks for the interesting discussion. Can I just add that many Germans did see "the thing" coming. People like L with had to flee the country much earlier than "the "final solution." I have attached to this email a very short account of the last meeting
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/10454/) - Written By: David Kleinberg-Levin Very moving testimony, Richard. I cherish it. And I thank you. I am now going to find your aunt's book! I simply cannot believe that, when Heidegger wrote that word, "Vernichtung" to characterize how Germany should deal with "its internal enemy," he surely knew it referred to the Jews and
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/10455/) - Written By: David Kleinberg-Levin Very moving testimony, Richard. I cherish it. And I thank you. I am now going to find your aunt's book! Please accept my correction here to the message I just sent. I simply cannot believe that, when Heidegger wrote that word, "Vernichtung" to characterize how Germany should deal with
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/10456/) - Written By: Richard Hearn, MD First, I want to thank both Richard and Laurence for this most illuminating discussion. In my opinion, it's one of the best I've read. Second, I want to applaud Richard's decision to bring his family history into the discussion. At least to me, it was "necessary" to do so.
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/10458/) - Written By: Babette Babich Dear Laurence, Thank you for this nuanced and thoughtfully expressed, layers over layers and levels, reply. I think that those thinking history and Geschick will learn much if they follow even a few of the interleavings, textual references, assonances between times and texts. And then, but it is so hard
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/10459/) - Written By: Gregory Fried Dear Laurence, Apologies for the delay in responding --- getting set up in Berlin is a bit distracting! You make many fine points in what you write here. Of course, I am very interested in the role of Plato in all this, and the claim by Heidegger about the specific role
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/9556/) - Written By: Babette Babich Long reply interval notwithstanding, Richard, herewith being towards death, deskhood, and a typewriter. In a tweet. https://twitter.com/Libroantiguo/status/763133151849934849 Cheers from Winchester! Babette Babich z. Zt., Fulbright Professor , Humboldt University, Berlin Fordham Faculty Fellowship Leave: Fall 2015-Summer 2016 Professor of Philosophy Fordham University, The Jesuit University of New York Executive Editor:
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/9563/) - Written By: Gregory Fried Larry, I've searched SZ for variations of verbergen, verschleiern, and verh llen. Nothing for the first two, at least not in the sense you seek. For the third, I found the following, which are not exactly what you asked for, but perhaps in the zone: ... je weniger das Hammerding
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/12806/) - Written By: Ian Moore Hi Rodrigo et al., Just discovering the fascinating exchanges on Derrida and Heidegger's reading of Trakl of late, and thought I'd weigh in on this particular issue, as I've been thinking recently about how to translate the peculiar line you mention from Trakl's Fr hling der Seele ("Es ist die
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/12808/) - Written By: William Britt Hey Ian, That's really helpful. Re: auf, what about 'unto'? I'm hesitant because the first translation of the Beitraege uses 'unto' in ways that seem to me to render sentences meaningless. But There is the soul, something foreign unto (the) earth. might suggest both 'foreign to' and 'foreign toward.' I'm
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/12815/) - Written By: Ian Moore Dear Will, John, Rodrigo, Will, I like the suggestion of 'unto,' which to me also seems to bear both valences. As for "auf Erden," it is an idiomatic expression using an archaic form of the dative. Cf. Luther's translation of the Lord's Prayer: "Dein Reich komme. Dein Wille geschehe auf
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/6452/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan Thank you, Dave, for the reference to Polanyi, which I’ll follow up. It sounds fascinating. --TomFrom: heideggercircle@googlegroups.com [mailto:heideggercircle@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Dave
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/6453/) - Written By: Thomas Sheehan Thank you, Dave, for the reference to Polanyi, which I’ll follow up. It sounds fascinating. --TomFrom: heideggercircle@googlegroups.com [mailto:heideggercircle@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Dave Cc: 'Dave'; "heidegg..."@googlegroups.com dave On Thursday, January 17, 2013 7:52:07 AM UTC-6, tsheehan wrote: Dear Dave,Thanks for this insightful posting. What I had in mind by human agency
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/6772/) - Written By: eric d. meyer Dear John & All: Yes, but I'm still puzzled at how "Being" can "make"? itself present as "being(s)" (...without "doing" anything?...). If it's not either a substance (ousia) or a thing (onta) or a force (energeia). And exactly how clear is the "distinction" (Krell translation) or "difference" (everybody else!)
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/6927/) - Written By: Shane Ewegen Richard:Thank you so much for this posting, which I found very helpful. The Penone piece is amazing – I’ve been trying to think of something worthy to say about it. While one could say it shows the human to be the absolute measure of all that is – even natural
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/6928/) - Written By: Shane Ewegen Richard (Polt!):I’ve been thinking more about your excellent post on August 25th, and I have a question for you. You wrote that “Our every interaction with an entity is an encounter between a cultural system of the proper/improper and the entity's own appropriateness/inappropriateness (e.g. the wooden block's unsuitability for wrapping
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/6930/) - Written By: Shane Ewegen Richard (Polt):Thank you for these further, and very helpful, comments. I want to offer just a few brief thoughts and then let you get back to your work!I wonder if your bunny-ear example can still be seen to be anthropocentric, in a way—or, logocentric, really. In his excellent introductory essay
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/6031/) - Written By: Derek Smith Is there a basis in Heidegger for the distinction between science and "scientism"? And, for myself, what is that distinction? Derek
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/7642/) - Written By: Shane Ewegen Eric: These are important and interesting passages — thank you for drawing our attention to them. I agree with your assessment of them — I don’t see how these can be read otherwise. Dasein is not equivalent to ‘human’ in any straightforward sense: rather, the human is called to /
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/8184/) - Written By: David Kleinberg-Levin It is indeed en creux, as Fran ois Vezin says, that discloses Heidegger s anti-Semitism in the all its complicity with evil. It s what is missing from his words, his lectures, his historical surveys, what during Kristallnacht and the Nurnburg rallies he remained silent about, what he never once
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/8185/) - Written By: Stephan Fuchs David's comment strikes me as setting up an impossible expectation. For all of us remain silent, especially in our writings, about most of the "evil" in the world, without ever expecting others to "exonerate" us from such "failures," or delivering apologies for that which we have remained silent about --
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/8186/) - Written By: David Kleinberg-Levin Stephen Fuchs misses my point entirely, in fact, turns it around to mean the opposite of what was intended. I was talking only about those on this website perpetually trying to excuse or justify or mitigate Heidegger s anti-Semitism! I certainly was not urging silence about homelessness, climate change, the
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/8188/) - Written By: Stephan Fuchs Just to clarify: I am neither arguing for or against those trying to excuse Heidegger for his various perceived misdeeds and shortcomings -- after all, no one appointed me as a judge on morality. Rather, my point is that it is blatantly unfair to judge a philosopher, or anyone else,
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/8189/) - Written By: Babette Babich Thank you for this important point, especially on this day. L'shana tovah. Babette Babich Professor of Philosophy Fordham University, The Jesuit University of New York Executive Editor: New Nietzsche Studies Web Page: http://faculty.fordham.edu/babich/ The Hallelujah Effect: Philosophical Reflections on Music, Performance Practice, and Technology(Surrey: Ashgate, 2013) Professor Babette Babich Department
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/8190/) - Written By: Babette Babich Thank you for the important point on judging someone on what is not said. And mindful, too of David's points,I include for what I meant by 'today' in my earlier remark... although I do not mention Heidegger until the very end, my essay, "Hallelujah and Atonement." Babette Babich Professor of
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/8191/) - Written By: David Kleinberg-Levin We must never abdicate our responsibility to evaluate and judge, what is good and bad, right and wrong. Both as persons and as philosophers, we have that obligation. Hence, I will not withhold my judgment of Heidegger s silence. Many years ago, I sought to find a way to
- [](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/reply/8193/) - Written By: Stephan Fuchs Richard, the passage from your book you quote could be read to suggest that the entire movement of Heideggers thinking -- from beings to being, from being to Seinsgeschichte and Ereignis -- is driven by the psychology of exculpation and wishful thinking, by an attempt at shifting responsibility for Nazism

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- [New book by Shane Ewegen](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic-tag/new-book-by-shane-ewegen/)
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- [the death of God](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic-tag/the-death-of-god/)
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- [custodianship](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic-tag/custodianship/)
- [the human](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic-tag/the-human/)
- [place](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic-tag/place/)
- [Darwin](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic-tag/darwin/)
- [Heidegger; Plato; Phaedrus; Truth; Art; Beauty](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic-tag/heidegger-plato-phaedrus-truth-art-beauty/)
- [gift](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic-tag/gift/)
- [technology - the operative](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic-tag/technology-the-operative/)
- [I've never done this before. They asked for another upload](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic-tag/ive-never-done-this-before-they-asked-for-another-upload/)
- [so I uploaded the nearest one handy.](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic-tag/so-i-uploaded-the-nearest-one-handy/)
- [Heidegger; Bakewell; Polt](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic-tag/heidegger-bakewell-polt/)
- [Drew Hyland](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic-tag/drew-hyland/)
- [English translation](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic-tag/english-translation/)
- [Drew Hyland Conference](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic-tag/drew-hyland-conference/)
- [Denken](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic-tag/denken/)
- [Wegmarken](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic-tag/wegmarken/)
- [Heidegger & fiction!](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic-tag/heidegger-fiction/)
- [Sheehan](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic-tag/sheehan/)
- [inception](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic-tag/inception/)
- [Poster for William J. Richardson](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic-tag/poster-for-william-j-richardson/)
- [Roundtable](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic-tag/roundtable/)
- [Mysticism](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic-tag/mysticism/)
- [Language](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic-tag/language/)
- [Performativity](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic-tag/performativity/)
- [Enigma](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic-tag/enigma/)
- [Being-in as Such](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic-tag/being-in-as-such/)
- [India](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic-tag/india/)
- [Transcendence](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic-tag/transcendence/)
- [Dasein](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic-tag/dasein/)
- [Authenticity](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic-tag/authenticity/)
- [Husserl Crisis Nietzsche](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic-tag/husserl-crisis-nietzsche/)
- [Classical philosophy; ancient philosophy; philology](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic-tag/classical-philosophy-ancient-philosophy-philology/)
- [Alfredo Lev Guzzoni](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic-tag/alfredo-lev-guzzoni/)
- [Heidegger; Plato; Aristotle; Heraclitus; Euripides](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic-tag/heidegger-plato-aristotle-heraclitus-euripides/)
- [Visiting Scholar](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic-tag/visiting-scholar/)
- [Greek Heidegger Anaximander](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic-tag/greek-heidegger-anaximander/)
- [seminars greece](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic-tag/seminars-greece/)
- [translation](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic-tag/translation/)
- [Black Notebooks](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic-tag/black-notebooks/)
- [Anaximander](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic-tag/anaximander/)
- [Bob Dylan](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic-tag/bob-dylan/)
- [being-towards-death](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic-tag/being-towards-death/)
- [Marriott City Center](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic-tag/marriott-city-center/)
- ["Die Sprache"](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic-tag/die-sprache/)
- [Being and Time](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic-tag/being-and-time/)
- [Derrida](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic-tag/derrida/)
- [Deconstruction](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic-tag/deconstruction/)
- [Derrida; Heidegger; Death; Christianity](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic-tag/derrida-heidegger-death-christianity/)
- [Walt Whitman's America](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic-tag/walt-whitmans-america/)
- [univocity](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic-tag/univocity/)
- [Regrets](https://heidegger-circle.org/forums/topic-tag/regrets/)