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Friday, February 22, 2013

Derrida on spirit in Heidegger

Because this suspicion appears absurd, because it carries in it something intolerable, and perhaps too because it moves towards the most worrying places in Heidegger's itinerary, discourses, and history, people avoid in their turn speaking of spirit in a work which nonetheless lets itself be magnetized, from its first to its last word, by that very thing. 

Why even when the legacy is being rejected does Geist not occupy the place it deserves alongside the major themes and major terms: being, Dasein, time, the world, history, ontological difference, Ereignis, etc.? It was perhaps nec

Geist cannot fail to gather this interlacing insofar as, for Heidegger, as we shall verify,. it is another name for the One and the Versammlung, one of the names of collecting and gathering.

do mean the profoundest. This is particularly manifest in the Fundamental Concepts of Metaphysics,9 around some guiding theses to which I shall return later: the stone is without world Iweltlos), the animal is poor in world Iweltarm), man is world-forming Iweltbildend).






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