Monday, August 21, 2006
Continuing with the Young Heidegger, Ereignis in one of the early lectures.
Continued. ¶ 9:29 PM
In order to illustrate Ereignis as the temporal sense of comportment to-the-primal-something (it-worlds-for-me) and as the temporalizing of situations, Heidegger's lecture course of KNS 1919 set up still another contrast in his phenomenological kindergarten. He first described the theoretical experience of a sunrise in astronomy. Next to this he held up the experience of sunrise from a mountain top (for example, in an outing in "the 'free-German youth movement'") and after a battle in Friedrich Hölderlin's translation of Sophocles's Antigone:I made some minor corrections to quote marks and punctuation in the original. Also, Thebes is usually seven-gated.Let us transplant ourselves into the comportment of astronomers who in astrophysics investigate the phenomenon of the sunrise as a mere process in nature and, indifferently comporting themselves to it, merely let it run its course before them. And let us hold up before this the lived experience of the chorus of Theban elders in Sophocles's Antigone who, on the first friendly morning after the victorious counteroffensive, look toward the rising sun...O glance of the sun, you most beautiful one, who / upon seven throned Thebes / ever shine...In the theoretical experience of the sunrise, whether in astronomy or traditional philosophy, the pretheoretical Ereignis of the it-worlds/breaks-forth-for-me is objectified into a Vor-gang, a pro-cess. Theory thereby dedistoricizes it in two basic ways. Frist, not only are the worlding of the world and the personal I designified and delived into naked and discrete "things," but simultaneously their flowing circular Ereignis put of an unavailable future is "reified" into a "thing-time," into the static presence of an available pro-cess that runs its course before one's all-seeing gaze. "[The situation] contains no static moments, but rather 'Ereignisse,' [events/enownments]. The happening of the situation is no 'process'--as this is observed, for instance, in the physicist's laboratory in a theoretical attitude, e.g., an electrical discharge."
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Continued. ¶ 9:29 PM
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"In the theoretical experience of the sunrise, whether in astronomy or traditional philosophy, the pretheoretical Ereignis of the it-worlds/breaks-forth-for-me is objectified into a Vor-gang, a pro-cess."
I wonder if this is a way to distinguish Heidegger from process thought.
Just musing out loud since I've never been able to figure out the major process thinkers. (Well, outside of Peirce and Leibniz that is)
I wonder if this is a way to distinguish Heidegger from process thought.
Just musing out loud since I've never been able to figure out the major process thinkers. (Well, outside of Peirce and Leibniz that is)
I hadn't come across Process Thought before, I see from searching the web that others have been thinking about it and Heidegger.
This is an interesting bit:
"In 1956, Professor John E. Smith of Yale University paid a visit to the venerable Martin Heidegger. Their conversation lasted for three hours, during which time Heidegger expressed his passionate interest in turning toward a new, post-Hegelian pursuit of a philosophy of nature. Smith responded that in America A.N. Whitehead had already spawned such a movement. Heidegger was most pleasantly surprised and interested, and expressed a desire to read some of Whitehead’s philosophy. It was, in fact, at Heidegger’s request that the tremendous project of translating Process and Reality (PR) was begun at Suhrkamp Verlag (Frankfurt). However, before the translation could be made available to him, Heidegger died."
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This is an interesting bit:
"In 1956, Professor John E. Smith of Yale University paid a visit to the venerable Martin Heidegger. Their conversation lasted for three hours, during which time Heidegger expressed his passionate interest in turning toward a new, post-Hegelian pursuit of a philosophy of nature. Smith responded that in America A.N. Whitehead had already spawned such a movement. Heidegger was most pleasantly surprised and interested, and expressed a desire to read some of Whitehead’s philosophy. It was, in fact, at Heidegger’s request that the tremendous project of translating Process and Reality (PR) was begun at Suhrkamp Verlag (Frankfurt). However, before the translation could be made available to him, Heidegger died."
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