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Sunday, December 03, 2017
 
From Babette Babich's "Philosophy Bakes No Bread".
My teacher, Hans-Georg Gadamer (1900-2002), was fond of relating the cli-ché: “philosophy bakes no bread.” Given Heidegger’s reflections on bread (and wine), inspired by the poets Hölderlin, Trakl, and George, the challenge would not be to bake but to think bread, from the sheltering of the seed (Monsanto is part of this) to the labor of the farmers, where Heidegger turns to the poet’s reflection on the gift of bread to offer a guest, a wanderer, wel-come: the work of hands, the work of the harvest, the gift of nature itself.
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