[lbo-talk] Grappling with Heidegger

[Chris Doss]

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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