Showing posts with label heidegger. Show all posts
Showing posts with label heidegger. Show all posts

Tuesday, February 16, 2010

Great Thinkers and Scandal


(Todtnauberg House,Heidegger the author"Sein und Zeit "Being and Time) )
There is no more difficult question than Blemishes which great thinkers left on their own careers.
Japanese Heidegger studies are active,and it might have influenced many intellectuals more over than in Germany.
As for Heidegger,a person who know his works, usually recognize the importance of his works,although even common German almost knows nothing about it.
Heidegger readers always have eagerly interest in Heidegger-Nazi problem.(please read Wikipedia" Martin Heidegger" )
His affirmative position to NSDAP, marked great stain on his works. This fact teach me "Common person in the world(dasein;Heidegger's term) may be possessed by diabolical principle just as a justice."
By the way, Foucault(French philosopher) had praised Islamic revolution in Iran.
I have great influenced by his works.but I don't agree with Iran.
And he was homosexual.(of course, I'm not)
Foucault studies seems like more popular in U.S liberals than in France.
What a misunderstanding it is!
This means obviously that he was opposed to Democracy(anti enlightenment), hated western culture, had no interest in woman and feminism.( If he were in Iran alive,he might be executed by death penalty.)His passion have enough of exposing dirty secrets of humanity as a Western in his works.and liberals are the very typical Westerns he disclosed. Foucault,himself might be a excellent juvenile delinquent or an anarchist.
Anyway he was a pagan enemy essentially against LIBERAL postmodernists rather than a friend.

Sunday, July 5, 2009

Journey to "existence"


I finished reading the book"Journey to Ixtlan"to the end.
This story is written so crafty and details are vivid, it can be read without getting tired.
For my English skill, the style of expression is too redundant. It took four days for me to read it.
Only on my own viewpoint,not always
authorized,Heidegger(German philosopher ;existentialism) is closely similar to the way of the thinking of this book.
I thought the difference between "doing" and "not doing"is similar
to Heidegger's term;"sein in der welt"(being in the world).Depending on his philosophy, Human being exists in the tool system and Nature is inevitably looked to as a raw material.
In the scene of this novel, mood of fog ,rock and mountains impressed me. Because it reminded me Mt Osore in Japan. Famous female shaman (channeling) are doing their spiritual activity there.
Talking with coyote , it was "Stopping the World" , I thought the climax of this story was easy a little.