[lbo-talk] Grappling with Heidegger

[Chris Doss]

Well, Heidegger and strutuaraliism certainly do
intersect, and I think it's not an accident that
post-Heideggerians like Derrida attacked Levi-Straus.
But anyway phenomenology is an analysis of experience
as lived by a person. It is an analysis of the
first-person point of view. Talk about "societies" and
so forth is meaningless to phenomenology, except
insofar as it relates to the first person. Just as
physics and chemistry are meaningless from the phen.
point of view, except insofar as it relates to the
first person experience. Heidegger is trying to
describe the structure of human experience in general,
regardless of whether the human in question is Karl
Marx, me, Charles Brown, Adam Smith, Adolph Hitler,
Stalin, Ghandi, my third-grade teacher, a
third-century Roman, or a neanderthal. Basically he's
trying to eludicate what it means to be a "first
person," describing the world as it appears to an
individual, or rather describing the general structure
of the world as experienced by an individual.

--- Charles Brown <cbrown at michiganlegal.org> wrote:


>  Chris Doss :
> Heidegger is describing the structure of meaning.
> He's
> not interested in its source. It's not a theory of
> development. ;) Questions such as what you are
> talking
> about are probably not addressable using
> phenomenology, with its first-person standpoint.
> 
> Heidegger in the second part of B & T does discuss
> history in relation to Dilthey and someone else
> whose
> name I can't remember (he's forgotten today). But
> that
> is in the context of describing how the past is
> interpreted in the present as part of the
> anticipation
> of the future.
> 
> ^^^^^^
> 
> CB: So he is focussed on the here and now, today,
> literally, a real
> presentism. Sounds like his theory is a
> structuralism.
> 
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