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A World Split Apart (c)
The anguish of a divided world gave birth to the Continue reading
A World Split Apart (d)
This active and tense competition comes to dominate all human Continue reading
A World Split Apart (e)
I have spent all my life under a Communist regime Continue reading
A World Split Apart (f)
…destructive and irresponsible freedom has been granted boundless space. Society Continue reading
A World Split Apart (g)
This tilt of freedom toward evil has come about gradually, Continue reading
A World Split Apart (h)
“Everyone is entitled to know everything.” (But this is a Continue reading
A World Split Apart (i)
In-depth analysis of a problem is anathema…(Alexandr Solzhenitsyn, A World Continue reading
A World Split Apart (j)
…the press has become the greatest power within Western countries, Continue reading
Krumm ist der Pfad der Ewigkeit
Alles geht, Alles kommt zurück; ewig rollt das Rad des Continue reading
1,2,3 in Plato (1)
What, then, Glaucon, would be the study that would draw Continue reading
Gigantomachia in Plato 2
Yes, for great is the struggle, I said, dear Glaucon, Continue reading
“Nur” in Hegel and Heidegger
The small word ‘nur‘ (= only) is enormously important to Continue reading
Zeitlichkeit
“Die” Zeit gibt es nicht; Zeit ist Zeitlichkeit. (Begriff der Zeit, 1924)
Thorweg 3
Nietzsche an Gersdorff, 20.12.1887: “In einem bedeutenden Sinn steht mein Continue reading
Thorweg 2
Vom Gesicht und Räthsel (Zarathustra III)
1. ….euch allein erzähle Continue reading
Thorweg 1
Wann es Noth thut, stehen zu bleiben —
Wenn die Continue reading
An Overview: Heidegger
Heidegger thinks his one thought, Being (= das Sein, later Continue reading
Etherial ground
Das reine Selbsterkennen im absoluten Anderssein, dieser Äther als solcher, Continue reading
Somersault
…the torch-bearers, advancing from behind the throne which King Artaphernes Continue reading
The space of the door (Hölderlin)
Hölderlin’s Der Ister
lange haben
Das Schickliche wir gesucht,
Nicht ohne Continue reading
Etymology of Sinn-sent-senso-sendero etc
Heidgger remarks somewhere (in a note in Unterwegs zur Sprache?) Continue reading
Ginnungagap
From the Völuspá section of the Norse-Icelandic Poetic Edda, with English and Continue reading
Dualisms, monisms and trinities
The gigantomachia is a battle of three ontological positions: two Continue reading
Time not our time
And under the oppression of the silent fog
The tolling Continue reading
Between two waves of the sea
At the source of the longest river
The voice of Continue reading
Between un-being and being
Love is itself unmoving,
Only the cause and end of Continue reading
Impossible union of spheres of existence
Here the impossible union
Of spheres of existence is actual Continue reading
Not the intense moment
Not the intense moment
Isolated, with no before and after, Continue reading
Where you are is where you are not
You say I am repeating
Something I have said before. Continue reading
World not world
Descend lower, descend only
Into the world of perpetual solitude,
World not world, but Continue reading
There we have been
At the still point of the turning world. Neither flesh Continue reading
Here is a place
Here is a place of disaffection
Time before and time Continue reading
has de ir por donde no eres
Para venir a gustarlo todo,
no quieras tener gusto en Continue reading
Per me si va (Inferno, canto 3)
1 Per me si va ne la città dolente,
2 Continue reading
The space of the door 1
One of Beckett’s Quatre Poèmes from 1948 reads (in his Continue reading
The space of the door 5 (over there)
Beckett’s last poem (first published in 1990), What is the Continue reading
The space of the door 4 (equinox)
The ‘equinox’ which figures in Krapp’s Last Tape is also Continue reading
The space of the door 2
Beckett directed that his 1976 Neither be included with his “short prose” rather than with his Continue reading
The space of the door 3
Krapp’s Last Tape, Samuel Beckett’s short play from 1958, introduces Continue reading
Inevitable struggle
An intense contest is inevitably implicated in the very idea Continue reading
Heidegger’s Sein und Zeit #4
Heidegger ends SZ exactly where it begins: “Es gilt, einen Weg zur Aufhellung der ontologischen Fundamentalfrage zu suchen und Continue reading
The 3 powers of the gigantomachia
The gigantomachia involves three powers or shapes of being which Continue reading
The battle of the gods in Greece
Like many Indo-European cultures, Greek myth and cult celebrated a Continue reading
Heidegger’s Sein und Zeit #3
In section #42 of SZ (that is, at the middle of its 83 sections), Heidegger cites and translates the Continue reading
Heidegger’s Sein und Zeit #2
Die genannte Frage (die Frage nach dem Sein) ist heute Continue reading
Heidegger’s Sein und Zeit #1
Heidegger begins SZ with a motto from Plato’s Sophist (244a) Continue reading
Hegel’s Phänomenologie 1
Aber ein wesentliches Moment ist dies Geschiedene, Unwirkliche selbst; denn Continue reading
Hesiod’s Tartarus
For a brazen anvil falling down from heaven nine nights Continue reading
The Titanomachia in Hesiod
But when first their father [=Ouranos, father of Chronos] was Continue reading