Death of Derrida: Do real Pynchonians mourn or par-tay?
Glenn Scheper
glenn_scheper at earthlink.net
Mon Oct 11 09:32:13 CDT 2004
You may recall, or can still obtain, my first P-list post:
http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0301&msg=74051
_Subject: Glenn Scheper's introduction to Pynchon-l list_
...
What I lack is the writing background to prosecute my thesis
which would bust phallologocentrism, by declaring the domain
(very real, not transcendent) to which its prophets hearken.
...
The poets that know it can twist a trope upon our domain that
stands out, that says, he's one of us, not a mime pedant that
rations and catalogs facts in the infinite regress, who only
ever asymptotically approches the boundary of the simulacrum.
Such a man is Pychon, savvy in reflexive bodily hermeneutics.
...
That image of the crack-pot came with several other ideas
that were introjected non-linguistically, and can only be
recovered discursively by interpreting various actings-out
during my psychosis, in light of the body of all human myth.
...
These are the anecdotal evidence for transcendental idealism:
a priori non-analytical propositions, hope of which Kant took
for his epitaph, that we might establish a "moral law within".
Pynchon is one of my fellows.
Nietzsche is one of my fellows.
About Hegel, I am undecided.
Derrida is not one of my fellows.
Heidegger is not one of my fellows.
Starting _Being and Time_ gave me hope Heidegger was a fellow,
by his use of specific words that frequent our tantric domain.
However, before long, he wandered off in infinite speculations.
I say Heidegger inherited a few primary concepts from Nietzsche,
Shelling, Shiller, and ancients, whichever were crazy and prior.
But Heidegger, living in a non Son-of-Man space, could not find
the ground to resolve all underlying eternal spiritual referents.
At first I thought his Dasein was a moniker of us fellows, later
his Dasein seems to be the condition of an unmetamorphosized man.
Infinite speculations are the generator of hypotheses of science,
to be ever held in suspense even within a horizon of testability,
but frequently do not support valid reasoning beyond the horizon.
Here are many links to a philosophy site explaining these things:
http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0302&msg=76209
_Subject: First and second order metaphysics._
Nietzsche, clearly showing he perceived the underlying absolute,
could ridicule exoteric religion, and pace this, enlightenment:
http://scrye.com/~station/dissertation.html
_Nietzsche as Critic and Captive of Enlightenment_
Yet he wished to establich another basis. Surely that same as I.
Nietzsche describing Hegel's work said "a core is wrapped around,
and wrapped around again and again, until it scarcely peeks out".
Derrida, like most men without that spark, only have the infinite
regress to play with. That is their bag, out of which they cannot
punch. After all, it takes the reflexive, self-intersecting shape
of us M/F auto-erotics to develop the hermeneutic for this domain.
Yours truly,
Glenn Scheper
http://home.earthlink.net/~glenn_scheper/
glenn_scheper + at + earthlink.net
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