I am not a Heideggerian; it has been probably 17-18 years since I seriously read Heidegger at all, and I was trained as an analytical philosopher of science anyway; almost all my writing has been in that tradition, including a number of analytical Marxist-style papers on Marx. It's just that as former student of Rorty and sometime Marxian I have more interest in and sympathy for continental philosophy than most people with my background. These days that is pretty much confined to Hegel, Marx, Nietzsche, and bit of the Frankfurt School, vita brevis, as H would remind us.
But anyway, since we are not going to persuade each other and since the discussion does not strike me an constructive or illuminating for anyone else, I hereby bow out. Please also don't get your back up about this discussion, no one has said anything personal to you.
jks
>
> Dear Justin,
>
> Heidegger's Profound Reflections on Death:
>
> Heidegger's thoughts on death when made clear are
> neither profound
> nor original.
>
> Chris Doss complains about my random quotes. So
> here I will just
> summarize Heidegger's views on death. Of course the
> Heidegerrians on
> this list will just assume that such summaries only
> show my stupidity
> and laziness. I have several points but to begin
> with two will be
> enough.
>
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