Christopher Rhoades Dÿkema
Gordon Fitch wrote:
> Justin Schwartz:
> > You should have learned German anyway: Heidegger is actually beautiful in
> > German. The comparison to Habermas' turgid, social-sciency prose is
> > insulting to a writer is is the most poetic of German philosophers of the
> > last century. I do not consider myself a Heideggerian of any sort, but I do
> > think the old Nazi creep has a lot to offer, although I frankly haven't
> > studied his work for a decade. You can get a lot of the same thing from
> > Lukacs as far as romantic anticapitalism goes; Lucian Goldman has a little
> > book on this. --jks
>
> So maybe Heidegger should be considered as a poet _rather_than_ a philosopher.
> But in that case, Rilke would be the reason to learn German.