In-der-Blog-sein

Long Sunday comments on a bungle by Heidegger in Le Thor:

But what struck me is a strange parapraxis which Heidegger makes. At one point during his exposition he quotes Hegel's famous aphorism about the old sock, "A torn sock is better than a mended sock." But immediately, as the notes to the seminar record, there is embarrassed whispering from his auditors. Heidegger had got it wrong. Hegel, they know, says something different: he says, "A mended sock is better than a torn sock; not so with self-consciousness". Heidegger, blushing (if one can read between the lines) defends himself with an elaborate story that Hegel's editor had changed the manuscript of the Wastebook (where the aphorism occurs) at the last minute, and what he has quoted was what Hegel originally said. His audience are clearly unconvinced.

Heh. All too human. Read the whole thing.  ¶ 8:24 PM