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Tuesday, August 26, 2014
 
In Asia Times, Strauss on the polemos of all things.
When Heidegger speaks of "non-Being" in the ontological sense, he conceals (or rather discloses) a sly nod to Goethe's Mephistopheles: boredom, an objectless anxiety and alienation from life, gives us an intimation of "non-Being," Heidegger said. He might have mentioned rage, perversion, horror and violence. Heidegger followed the logical conclusion of his thinking into membership in the Nazi Party. I do not mean to attribute too much authority to Heidegger; as Michael Wyschogrod showed in his classic study of the two philosophers, he borrowed his best material from Heidegger. Nor did Heidegger discover intimations of non-Being in the pre-Socratics; Fernando de Rojas' citation of Heraclitus in the introduction to La Celestina (1499) long preceded him. Still, Heidegger gave us the modern formulation of the problem in its standard form.
My versión catedrática includes Fernando's Prologo. He cites fragment 53 in Latin: omnia secundum litem fiunt [Πόλεμος πάντων μὲν πατήρ ἐστι]. I don't recall it coming up in the version where Penelope Cruz played Melibea.
 
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