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Saturday, November 26, 2011
 
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Liquid Time on the angst already uncanny in detached objectivity.
By orienting ourselves to an objective reality, the truth is presented as a neutral fact belonging to what Heidegger calls the they-self. It suits our everyday circumstances to subscribe to the they-self, but it is an inauthentic existence, plagued by angst. Unlike fear, angst is not oriented to an object, but rather to an uncanny sense of one’s own detached perspective.
 
Comments:
"uncanny"

The monstruous, you mean? IM sort of jesting Enk. but...a conspiracy minded sort might posit something like a PC-PoMo-Freudian- collusion plot behind the translation of Heidegger's "ungeheuer" into the merely psychlogical "uncanny"-- where..IMO Heid. probably intended ...something rather Nietzschean, frightening--ie monstrous..Die Raubtier.
 
We'r not dealing with a direct translation here, so whether uncanny stands for ungeheuer or unheimlich is more a matter of what's appropriate, rather than what corresponds best.

And I don't interpret this as a question of hugeness (monster sized), but more a case of the strangeness (another translation of to deinon) of another perspective.
 
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