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On Sat, Jul 9, 2016 at 2:25 PM, Monte Davis <montedavis49 at gmail.com> wrote:

> ​KFL > ​we've gone through Eddins & Voegelin debates since a former
> millennium again and again
>
> As the archives will remind you, I haven't participated in those debates.
> I've never read Voegelin. My "VERY idiosyncratic modern reading" is
> shorthand for "I can't judge how well Eddins reads Voegelin, still less how
> Voegelin in his time read Gnostic studies -- but from my own understanding
> of Gnostic studies, Eddins' POV is very much his own, not a consensus."
>
> That said, Eddins had a greater influence on my own view of GR (the first
> three Pynchon novels as a whole, not so much) than any critic since Schaub
> and Hite. For me, it brought a useful coherence to what previously seemed
> many conflicting and overlapping stances vis-a-vis "Transcendence And How
> to Get There...Or Is It a Trap?"
>
> Understand: I DO NOT KNOW AND DO NOT CARE whether Eddins is a
> true/legitimate/good expositor of Voegelin, or whether either of them is a
> true/legitimate/good expositor of Gnostic scholarship. I like 'The Gnostic
> Pynchon' as an insightful reading of GR...period.
>
> PS -- I've nothing to say about the relationship of any of this to
> Heidegger, whom I have tried  to read half a dozen times without success.
> To me, all of Heidegger -- much of Hegel, too -- is either beyond my
> intellectual grasp or incoherent word-spinning, or possibly both. Pity me
> as a philistine and pass by.
>
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