[lbo-talk] Re: Heiddeger, Blackburn

[joanna bujes]

My mother, a writer and an intellectual of no particular political 
stripe, counts two great loves in her life. The first was a young 
Romanian brown-shirt (fascist) who was shot after the war. The second 
was a jew, my father, with whom she lived for fifity-five years, till 
his death three years ago.

Labels don't necessarily tell us everything. So far as Arendt and 
Heidegger are concerned, they obviously don't tell us enough to explain 
the life-long attraction. I am underimpressed by Heidegger; the stuff I 
tried to read sounded to me like eastern insights...reached in a very 
circuitous way....but I'll defer to his admirers on the list -- justin 
(?) and chris. Arendt I read in my twenties and all I remember was the 
"banality of evil" stuff, which seemed pretty good at the time. Celine 
is supposed to be a fascist, but I really liked "Journey to the End of 
the Night"...though I haven't finished it yet.

So, I don't know. Art...politics....philosophy; they don't necessarily 
sync up the way we'd like them to.

Joanna