[lbo-talk] Grappling with Heidegger

Chris Doss lookoverhere1 at yahoo.com
Thu Jun 8 14:02:57 PDT 2006


You know, Ravi, I've been rereading Sein und Zeit -- one of the few books of philosophy since the Giant Move Across the World -- and I am still stunned by how simple, obvious, and brilliant it all is (as well as its spectacular beauty). The first time I read it I didn't understand a damn thing, because I wasn't conversant at that time with the tradition H was going from, his references, and the knowledge he assumes his readers have. The second time I was blown away by the fact that he was pointing out so many obvious features of everyday life and the meaning of that life that I had somehow never noticed. The undermining of the subject-object dichotomy, the interpenetration of the past, present, and future, and the pointing out that we encounter things contextually in the context of a project being first and foremost among them. Really, of all the books that have affected me most in my life, that book is in first place, neck and neck with Ulysses. I can't think of anything in the 20th century to compare with it (except for the aforementioned Ulysses, of course).

Nu, zayats, pogodi!

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