Heidegger, Nixon, Husserl, Corey (was Re: What?)

[jm]

>
>On Wed, 4 Sep 1996 hankhank at ccwf.cc.utexas.edu wrote:
>> 
>> Perhaps we are witnessing Nixon opening to Dasein, which to Heidegger is a 
>> question of opening to the question, question of questioning the ontology 
>> of Western metaphysics, which he himself quit doing in the 30s, when 
>> offering himself to the service of a certain, most ontological, Spirit. 
>> 
>> But probably we are not witnessing Nixon carrying out anything like that.
>> 
>> Heikki
>> 
>
>Though the Heideggerian question isn't "What" (the Platonic ti to on) but 
>rather the more Husserlian "How" -- not "what is being" (enquiring after 
>essence or after the 'beingness' (Seiendheit) of being) but how being 
>comes to presence, how it presences (within the 
>horizon opened up by the 'there' of 'there-being' (Da-sein)). Whether 
>Heid. 'quits asking' this question is contentious to say the least 
>(though something called "German Dasein" does, for a time, get tangled up 
>in the question).
>
>Cheers,
>Paul Murphy


Whether you're all being sentimental surrealists, derri-dadaists, or just
phenomenal p-list poseurs (Oh! It has to be aLITerative!), I think you've
outdone Prof. Irwin Corey himself.  Zounds, I'm impressed.          -jm