Heidegger/Pynchon

[Mark Thibodeau]

Oh, wow.

Do a word-search for Heidegger in the Google Books version of

The Marvelous Clouds: Toward a Philosophy of Elemental Media

and you find:
Heidegger the Weatherman

Heidegger spent much time in his youth in the tower of the church where his
father worked as a sexton, enjoying the views of Messkirch, his own
thoughts, and the company of the bats. He also perched in a military
observation tower during World War I, reading the winds. Heidegger was a
weatherman. He served in the end of World War I as a military meteorologist
on the western front, northeast of Verdun, France, in the ErsatzBataillon
Infanterie-Regiment 113, Frontwetterwarte 414, from late August until
November or December 1918, following an eight-week training course at the
Heimat-Wetter-Warte-Kommando in Charlottenburg, Berlin. In letters he wrote
to his wife Elfriede in July after arriving in Berlin, Heidegger said that
he expected to learn a great deal in the next weeks and mentioned his
desire to acquire a scientific book on meteorology."

There's more.

J

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On Fri, Dec 22, 2017 at 6:48 AM, Kai Frederik Lorentzen <
lorentzen at hotmail.de> wrote:

>
> 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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