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Saturday, April 8, 2006

Heidegger is hard
So I finally got around to starting on Heidegger's Contributions to Philosophy. My god, just when I'd reached the point where I thought I could get just about anything the guy threw at me... well, suffice it to say that this is probably the second most difficult book I've ever tried to read, outside of Hegel's Phenomenology. Actually they're probably both difficult for the same reason. Both books, as far as I can understand, seem to be a kind of JOURNEY. Although, it's a very strange kind of journey where, and here's the hard part, the END of the journey (for Hegel: absolute knowledge, science; for Heidegger: be-ing, the overcoming of metaphysics towards the holding sway of being as ereignis) has to be where the journey is SEEN from. The journey is the self-discovery of the journey's end as it travels away from the place where it is differentiated from itself and towards what it essentially is; however, the journey can only be understood if read from its own conclusion.

I'm not sure if that even makes sense.

Anyways, I put in a few hours on the Kasimasi thing, which is now VERY late so I guess I'm skipping a month. It's up to about 2000 words; here's hoping I can keep this one under 20 pages.
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