[lbo-talk] Grappling with Heidegger

Dennis Claxton ddclaxton at earthlink.net
Wed May 10 13:14:59 PDT 2006



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>If Heidegger is only repeating banalities, truisms or propounding
>bad poetry about death, why should he be celebrated as a great philosopher?

That's what I mean. I don't think anybody was overly concerned with celebrating a great philosopher. They were just pointing out that someone spoke to them in important ways.


>makes your impenetrable prose irrelevant and simply a form of obscurantism.

I never get this either. If somebody says they understand something, then how is it impenetrable?



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