Tuesday, May 24, 2011
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The Owl on what Arendt to read.
The Owl on what Arendt to read.
Arendt’s small chapter in the final section of The Human Condition, ‘The Reversal of Contemplation and Action’, is a gem and must read. It has Heidegger written all over it. The hidden king and master had taught his student well. Arendt, like Heidegger, was calling for a reversal of the reversal. Contemplation had once been the queen of knowing and philosophy, but modern rationalism had come to dethrone the queen and sit on the throne of knowing. The reversal of contemplation and action had to be reversed. This was the philosophic vocation of Heidegger and Arendt. Is it even possible to be political in the ‘polis’ in a meaningful manner when drivenness banishes depth and knowledge casts wisdom to the margins of learning and education?¶ 9:59 AM
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"Heidegger’s notion of Being had no real grounding...."
Yes, but if one takes such a lack seriously (and beyng as beyng is beyond ground) then one has at the least a warning sign that even too much contemplation is never enough.
Reading philosopher Grant's story alerts me to a constant theme. My hero, Emerson, has been dismissed as a cheerful gentleman until some renewed studies in the last quarter of the 20th Century. But the old attitude persists. He survives because he was an excellent writer and rhetorician and not a philosopher/theologian.
Froment-Meurice has a chapter that concludes with an examination of Paul de Man's commentary on Heidegger's commentary on Holderlin. My current interpretation is that, while the identification of language with beyng (or Nature or equivalent) is correct, such is never complete but always leaves a "remaining." So that even Holderlin's "sacred" ultimately traces back to his committment to the poet's vocation, not to any literal word of god. That may not be a new message, but MH tells us why that is so.
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Yes, but if one takes such a lack seriously (and beyng as beyng is beyond ground) then one has at the least a warning sign that even too much contemplation is never enough.
Reading philosopher Grant's story alerts me to a constant theme. My hero, Emerson, has been dismissed as a cheerful gentleman until some renewed studies in the last quarter of the 20th Century. But the old attitude persists. He survives because he was an excellent writer and rhetorician and not a philosopher/theologian.
Froment-Meurice has a chapter that concludes with an examination of Paul de Man's commentary on Heidegger's commentary on Holderlin. My current interpretation is that, while the identification of language with beyng (or Nature or equivalent) is correct, such is never complete but always leaves a "remaining." So that even Holderlin's "sacred" ultimately traces back to his committment to the poet's vocation, not to any literal word of god. That may not be a new message, but MH tells us why that is so.
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