Dreyfus (was Re: The bizarre Nazi book craze)

[Michael F]

Kai,

As for Heidegger, he presents the nihilism of the Modern world, and
I'd be a fool as would many professionals would be to try to refute
him or jump on board: the leisure necessitated to wade through
Heidegger's constructed edifice of what Modern nihilism is hardly made
available to many.  Based upon my incomplete readings and the highly
professional thinkers, it is obvious that Heidegger constructs an
edifice or poetry that replicates the how and why of Modern Nihilism,
which can only be "incomplete", and this does not in any way seem to
comment on the possibility of "being" in the qualitative sense.  It's
no mystery that Dreyfus sits atop the big hill of technology with many
others, which may be the most direct way to access Heidegger via
Dreyfus.  But, because I find thought to be "complete" or a "system",
it is also possible to read Dreyfus and his system through his
utterances on Western Literature and on the act of reading.

Mike

On Sat, Mar 19, 2011 at 3:49 AM, Kai Frederik Lorentzen
<lorentzen at hotmail.de> wrote:
>
> On 18.03.2011 23:23, Michael F wrote:
>
>>  My problem is that he doesn't attend to the "human"
>> questions: the desire for "being" in a qualitative sense, which a few
>> humans still ask, and if you don't see this as the focus of human
>> thought, we will find no meeting ground and may be best to discontinue
>> the discussion.
>
> Well now. Dreyfus published a commentary on 'Being and Time'. What's your
> point?
>
>>   Deleuze and Foucault aren't on my reading lists
>> anymore.
>
> Since you started your contributions by dropping the term 'nihilism', let me
> remind you that Nietzsche considered it to be one of the main
> characteristics of nihilism that every little match light feels competent to
> comment in a pseudo-sovereign way on Zippos ...
>
> KFL
>
>