Heidegger/Pynchon

[Kai Frederik Lorentzen]

The philosopher was indeed a Luftschiffer (hot air balloon rider) at the end of World War I,
but the fact is little known ...

" ... 1918 [:] Militärische Ausbildung mit meteorologischer Schulung ('Luftschiffer'), Ende August Frontwetterwarte vor Verdun, Nov.[ember] nach Freiburg entlassen ..."

Helmuth Vetter: Grundriss Heidegger. Ein Handbuch zu Leben und Werk. Hamburg 2014: Felix Meiner, p. 388.

> ... IN ATD readers might want to envision a Hot Air Ballon ride with TRP as the Air-Ship Commander and with primary passengers Plato and Heidegger- a ride which covers the globe during a 30 year period, a ride in which the major ideas of the era are made apparent through the wind that carries us hither and thither. If Pynchon is exploring Heideggerian thinking, ATD may be the text in which we understand that thinking most clearly. Remembering Heidegger's "es gibt" and his concept of "the step-back" [v., Country Path Conversation / aka, Gelassenheit], then perhaps readers might experience the sense of Gelassenheit during their reading of ATD, the Inconvenience being the "Great Step-Back" ... <

https://against-the-day.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=ATD_1-25

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