enowning
Saturday, May 31, 2008
 
Here's the first page (minus some poetry) from the Albert Hofstadter essay "Enownment" referred to last Sunday.
Enownment

Martin Heidegger's life work as a thinker has been a struggle to attain a single thought.

By this thought he has worked to take the measure of man's Being. By it he has sought to illuminate man's nature and world, his personal and social existence, his art and poetry, his language, hi past and present and future.

This thought becomes more and more articulate in the sequence of the writings. It is most stringently spoken of in the lecture On Time and Being. That is fitting, since the second part of Being and Time was supposed to be a reversal, a Kehre, although perhaps the turn itself took a surprising turn. While there are only hints of possibility of the thought's turn. While there are only hints of the possibility of the thought's later form in that early book, it is brought out as clearly as its nature permits only in the later writings -- like Identity and Difference, On Time and Being, and the essays in Poetry, Language, Thought.

P. 17
 
Comments: Post a Comment

<< Home
For when Ereignis is not sufficient.

Appropriation appropriates! Send your appropriations to enowning at gmail.com.

View mobile version