Buber: Congealing the Whirl of Doom

[Dave Monroe]

Yeah, and I left out a whole lotta Buber as well.  My
concern was, get up the gist of the immediately
Pynchon-related, let anyone interested--say,
yrself--make their way through the rest.  Stumbled on
that ...

--- Otto <ottosell at yahoo.de> wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Dave Monroe" <monrovius at yahoo.com>
> To: <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, November 05, 2003 8:08 PM
> Subject: Buber: Congealing the Whirl of Doom
> 
> 
> > Three Dialogues
> > Buber: Congealing the Whirl of Doom
> >
> > [...]
> >
> 
> Thanks Dave, great stuff.
> 
> But what you didn't copied from the beginning of the
> essay seems very important to me, is a precondition
> of postmodernism:
> 
> "There's a respectable philosophical tradition from
> the British empiricists to the phenomenologists that
> says causality is an imaginative construct. To say
> that A causes B is to place two events in a
> hierarchical logic that exists in our heads, not in
> nature."
>
http://home.olemiss.edu/~djr/pages/writer/books/html/3dialogs/buber.html
> 
> The secret word for tonight is *hierarchical* - one
> pole ("A") of the binary opposition claims to be
> the "higher," more important pole. But
> phenomenological we can only look for a cause
> because we have perceived the effect, thus in our
> brain "B" comes before "A".

Straight outta Nietzsche, as I recall ...

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