"ChrisD(RJ)" wrote:
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> There is a Heideggerian basis of OT, but it is a negative one (if you
> believe the thesis I was developing in my diss.). The structure of
> totalitarian ideology she outlines in OT resembles rather closely the
> structure of one of St. Augustine's interpretations of love she mapped out
> in her dissertation (and said was incapable of grounding social being,
> because it leads to viewing other people only as use-objects), which, in its
> turn, is suspiciously similar to certain aspects of the structure of Dasein
> given in Being and Time.
I'd like to see this developed a bit. I'm never going to have time to go back to Arendt, but she influenced me a lot at one time, & if I can pick it up on the fly on a maillist I'd enjoy knowing more about her, and this relationship (Augustine) in particular.
Carrol