GRGR(5): Weissmann & Heidegger: being-towards-death

[Lorentzen / Nicklaus]

 In 'Dog years' there is also a passage in which the dog is told that Hitler & 
 Heidegger "invented each other". Of course that's far too cheap. But to diss 
 Heidegger was popular in those days, like it still is today. At least among 
 the Non-Postmodernist minds [ :> ]. In 1964, Adorno published "Jargon der 
 Eigentlichkeit" against Heidegger. His worst book; today we can see clearly 
 that is was only meant to hide & cover the parallels in the deep of these two 
 brilliant theories. What really interests me: Why do you think that Heidegger 
 was "so important to the war"? Never heard something like that. He wasn't 
 esteemated by the Nazis at all. Not even between 1933 and 1935, when he tried 
 to take part in their 'revolution' on the academic level. Intructive insights 
 (not only) into the relation of Heidegger & the NS you can find in Ruediger  
 Safranski's study "Ein Meister aus Deutschland. Heidegger und seine Zeit"  
 (1994). By now there must be a translation. 
                                                    Yours, Kai


Terrance F. Flaherty schrieb:
> Well, I'm probably the wrong guy to answer this, since in my Non-Postmodern
>  mind,  Ontic, Epistemic, and Semantic, are not at all confused, however,
>  your post does tie into the dogs, as Pynchon's black irony is here like that
>  of Gunter Grass, who has Tulla living in Harras's kennel like a dog (how's
> that for a simple metaphor), and like Pointsman's dog hunting, the hunt for
>  the Fuhrer's dog in Dog Years, directs the reader  to consider the
>  "unspeakable" of war as the language he uses to describe these scenes is
>  couched, appropriately, in a parody of the language of Heidegger, the great
> Philosopher, so important to the war.
>
> Kevin Won wrote:
>
> > I'm going to have to review my Heidegger again, but the Phenomenological
>  Being-Towards-Death aspect of Dazien seems a definite thread woven in the GR
>  tapestry.  I hope someone more knowledgeable on Heidegger will expand on
>  this so I don't reveal too many ignorances explicating Herr doctor myself.
> >
> > >>> Lorentzen / Nicklaus <lorentzen-nicklaus at t-online.de> 06/28 2:04 PM >>>
> >
> >  "Tonight he feels the potency of every word: words are only an eye-twitch
>  away
> >   from the things they stand for." (p. 100)
> >
> >   With his loving of the (late) Rilke & his urge to a change that goes far
> >   beyond the political dimension, Weissmann is somehow like Heidegger. In
>  the
> >   'Humanismusbrief' it says: "Die Sprache ist das Haus des Seins" (- about
> >   "Language is the house of being"). Could be connected to the above quoted
> >   passage. And Heidegger also says: "Ereignis ist eignendes Er-äugnis".
>  This is
> >   probably untranslatable, but "Er-äugnis" is not too for away from
> >   "eye-twitch". The term "Ereignis", a core category og the late Heidegger,
> >   might be "occurence" or "incident" or "happening" or "event".
> >
> >    Best, KFL
>