Arendt about Heidegger

[Kai Frederik Lorentzen]

Now, of course "being alive" is always a necessary condition for 
thinking. But that's trivial, no? What's meant here is the specific 
intensity that goes along with Heidegger's phaenomenology of every day 
life. Heidegger analysis moods like angst, ecstasy or boredom in their 
potential to break through conventions and open up new and authentic 
ways of existence in the unconcealedness (aletheia) of Being. The 
thinking process itself thus becomes a transformation of existence. Like 
art to which thinking ("Denken", not - academic - "Philosophie") is 
"neighbored" according to the Black Forest Wizard. It is in this sense 
that Heidegger says that "science does not think". The (non-passionate) 
cognitions of science or analytic philosophy are "not one with being 
alive". They're instruments of modernity or, as Heidegger would put it, 
machine like tools of the Ge-stell.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gestell

The idea of the Ge-stell always appeared kinda Pynchonian to me.


On 03.12.2013 23:29, malignd at aol.com wrote:
> So, if not passionate, thinking is not one with being alive? Just 
> curious ...
>
>     "a passionate
>     thinking in which thinking and being alive is one"
>
>
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>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kai Frederik Lorentzen <lorentzen at hotmail.de>
> To: pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> Sent: Tue, Dec 3, 2013 6:49 am
> Subject: Arendt about Heidegger
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>
> Speech on occasion of Heidegger's 80th birthday in 1969. Arendt reports
> how she first heard the rumor about "the secret King in the empire of
> thinking", how she then met the man and experienced "a passionate
> thinking in which thinking and being alive is one":
>
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8O6zvAGR-c
>
> Long live the King!
>
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