I have read Heidegger and it looks like Buddhism rendered in western terms. In other words, very valuable, but can be found expressed more clearly elsewhere.
Joanna
andie nachgeborenen wrote:
>Actually Heidegger's post Being & Time writing is
>_really_ beautiful German. The translations do not do
>him justice, nowhere near.
>
>And is your contrast supposed to to whom and on what
>grounds? Quine, whose major thesis (the indeterminacy
>of translation) no two people can agree on what it
>means? Davidson, similarly opaque? Rawls, whose
>writing is a crime against the English language?
>Sellars? Give me a break.
>
>Foucault can write perfectly well -- his prose not
>fancy, but clear and serviceable. Zizek has a nice
>breezy accessible journalistic style. Merleau Ponty
>writes like an analytical philosopher, for good or ill
>(says one who was trained in that tradition).
>
>As you know, you can get a PhD in philosophy from a
>top school without ever looking at a word of
>Heidegger. I actually think he's a major philosopher
>though, one of the 20th century greats, well worth the
>effort of headbanging you have have top do to get your
>head around the main points.
>
>--- Jerry Monaco <monacojerry at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>
>>On 5/7/06, Chris Doss <lookoverhere1 at yahoo.com>
>>wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Hell, without Heidegger there wouldn't even BE a
>>>Zizek. Or a Sartre, Foucault, Derrida,
>>>
>>>
>>Merleau-Ponty,
>>
>>
>>>Lacan, Arendt, Marcuse, Adorno and probably a
>>>
>>>
>>couple
>>
>>
>>>of dozen other thinkers I'm in too much of a hurry
>>>
>>>
>>to
>>
>>
>>>remember right now. What did Arendt call him --
>>>
>>>
>>the
>>
>>
>>>Hidden King?
>>>
>>>
>>
>>Does that mean all these people might actually have
>>to learn to write? I'll
>>admit an affection for Sartre in his popular mode
>>and Merleau-Ponty when
>>writing about the senses.... But the world would
>>have been better off
>>without Heidegger. At least trees and graduate
>>classes would have been
>>better off.
>>
>>--- ravi <gadfly at exitleft.org> wrote:
>>
>>
>>>>At around 7/5/06 8:46 am, Chris Doss wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>Cuz he's the most influential philosopher
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>since
>>
>>
>>>>Hegel?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>You mean not Zizek?!! ;-)
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>Nu, zayats, pogodi!
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>>is
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>>
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>>
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>>browsing
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