[lbo-talk] Grappling with Heidegger

[Chris Doss]

Hmmm. Interesting Jerry. Your use of the term
"non-experiential" here reminds me of my own
ruminations of the place of the "unconscious" in
phenomenology -- phenomenology has problems dealing
with it, for the obvious reason that it isn't an
object of experience. (It's interesting that Heidegger
never mentioned Freud to my knowledge -- maybe he
thought he was just a sex-obsessed nut, but I think
there's a bigger reason; note also Sartre's dismissal
of the idea of the subconscious.) I think just on the
spur of the moment that a strict Heideggerian analysis
of the "non-experiential" would fold it into the
concept of the Nothing. It molds lived experience,
while being unable to be thematized by it (that's
really what the Nothing and Being are, when you come
right down to it -- the borders of experience that
cannot be themselves thematically encountered as a
something but nevertheless control the content and
form of experience). More on this tomorrow, I have to
ruminate on it and it's 3 am here -- I have to be at
the office at 10 tomorrow!

BTW thanks Ravi! I'm trained as a Heidegger scholar
but never completed my dissertation -- it was
interrupted by a "break" in Russia that turned into 6
years (probably a lifetime commitment) and a total
divorce with academia -- and haven't read any of the
scholarly work on Heidegger since that time. In the
States I think I had most of Heidegger's collected
works at home -- now I just have Sein und Zeit, which
my mom brought me from Germany when she visited. So I
am hardly an up-to-date expert. I do love the guy
though. 

Nu, zayats, pogodi!

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