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>From: coonstot@quads.uchicago.edu (charles orville onstott)
Subject: Martin Heidegger: Understanding and Meaning--a reading group
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Summary: Reading group proposition 
Keywords: Heidegger, meaning, understanding, interpretation, sign
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I am planning on doing a detailed re-reading of Division 1 Section V
of Martin Heidegger's _Being and Time_.	 This chapter deals with
the concept of "Being-In."  I am most concerned, however, with the
concepts of _meaning_, _understanding_, _interpretation_, and _sign_.
Therefore, I plan to do a reading to recover these concepts and
their associated ramifications.	 I am not closed to the possibility
that this could turn out to be a criticism.

  If anyone is interested in this sort of a study, I propose an
email reading group which I will proctor.    The readings will
be designed so that most of Section V will be covered by the end of
November.  Thus, the reading will be  a little demanding.  However,
we will not be reading all of Section V, only those that are relevent
to the purpose stated above.

  Whether or not you have read Heidegger, if you would be interested
in learning Heidegger's criticism of hermeneutics and reference theory
as presented in _Being and Time_, this reading would be very useful
to you.	 This could give you an introduction to a great thinker on these
matters--and one that presents several challenges to our current
understanding of these given concepts.	The application of his
criticism ranges anywhere from Artificial Intelligence, the Human
Sciences, to Hermenuetics.

The format:  Readings will be conducted on a weekly basis with
a posting of commentary on the reading at the end of the week by
all members.  These will be forwarded to all members of the group.
Commentary on the responses should be made at will and will be
forwarded to all those involved.  At the end of November, a commentary
on the group's movement of thought on Heidegger will be made by myself
and will be open to response through December.	It may take us
1 week into December to finish the relevent sections before the
final phenomenological study of the group's thought.

If you are interested, please send me email and I will send
out the first reading set.  You will need to have your own
copy of _Being and Time_(any library should have at least 1 copy)
I will be using the english translation of this text; however,
if you know German and have a copy of _Sein und Zeit_ your
input would be valuable.

Thank You,

Charles O. Onstott, III
University of Chicago Divinity School
coonstot@midway.uchicago.edu


-- 
Charles O. Onstott, III                         (coonstot@midway.uchicago.edu)
Graduate Student in Religion and the Human Sciences
The University of Chicago Divinity School
           "For [the study of] history, too, has its fashions."  (Anouilh)


