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From: dcs2e@darwin.clas.virginia.edu (David Swanson)
Subject: Re: Heidegger
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In article <4oq36m$v8l@larch.cc.swarthmore.edu>
haneef@engin.swarthmore.edu (Omar Haneef '96) writes:

> David Swanson (dcs2e@darwin.clas.virginia.edu) wrote:
> > Has anybody read Heidegger yet?
> 
> Turns out, nobody has! All those citations were guesses from hearsay!


All what citations?


> 
> >  I ask because (1) he may appeal to
> > people Rorty does not appeal to, (2) he is not as difficult or
> > long-winded as Derrida,
> 
> I'd have to guess you haven't read "Being and Time"


Guess all you like.

> 
> > (3) you can't read Derrida without knowing
> > Heidegger anyway,
> 
> This is a philosophy bias. How far back do you want to go? To read Heidegger
> you gotta know Husserl, for Husserl you gotta do Hegel, for Hegel you gotta
> do Kant (where we can interrupt the lineage or keep going through the
> rationalists and empiricists to Descartes. You can stop there or keep going
> through the church dudes to Plato if need be.)


That's fair.  It is a bias.  But it's a bias fashioned to the current
debate and the side I want to argue on.


> 
> > (4) reading him would give his opponents something
> > concrete to oppose.
> 
> So would reading Derrida, or Foucault or ANYONE. I wish they'd give us
> citations!
> 
>         -Omar


David

"Resistance to the proposition that the essence of truth is freedom is
based on preconceptions, the most obstinate of which is that freedom is
a property of man."  Martin Heidegger, "On the Essence of Truth," [Vom
Wesen der Wahrheit] translated by John Sallis, in "Basic Writings,"
(old version, 1977) p.126.
