From: Rene de Bakker To: heidegger@lists.village.virginia.edu
Sent: September 5, 2000
Gary C. Moore wrote
3-9-00 -0400, :
It is strange that Heidegger, in his book
THE FUNDAMENTAL CONCEPTS OF METAPHYSICS:
World, Finitude, Solitude does not actually
discuss "solitude" [Einsamkeit]
but rather "individuation" [Vereinzelung]
which, instead of being a withdrawal or detachment
or being cut off, is a process of interaction
with the world -- which would really make
it more consistent with "world"
and "finitude" than "solitude"
which is a withdrawal or detachment from
interaction into silence or destain for communication.
Does Heidegger actually discuss "solitude"
as such, the real thing, anywhere? If so,
I have missed it. For after all, he says
he has "loneliness", not that he
is "alone".
Hi Gary,
Heidegger in 1930 presents Einsamkeit and
Vereinzelung as 2 words for the same thing.
See German p. 8, bottom, of the "Metaphysical
Concepts":
"Endlichkeit IST nur in der wahren Verendlichung.
In dieser aber vollzieht sich letzlich eine
VEREINZELUNG des Menschen auf sein Dasein.
[...] Diese Vereinzelung ist vielmehr jene
VEREINSAMUNG, in der jeder Mensch allererst
in die Naehe zum Wesentlichen aller Dinge
gelangt, zur Welt. Was ist diese EINSAMKEIT,
wo der Mensch je wie ein Einziger sein wird?"
When we apply the all-important par. 70 ("the
fundamental methodical Ueberlegung to the
understanding of all metaphysical problems
and concepts"), to these concepts, and
prohibit any present-at-hand character of
what they intend, if we follow the direction
of their indication, - Grundbegriffe show
into the Dasein - we become ourselves a happening
(Geschehen) of Dasein. We verendlichen, are
becoming finite; vereinsamen, become ein-sam,
one-some; vereinzeln: become einzeln, individual.
Only then, according to Heidegger's "thesis"
in this lecture, *world* comes into play.
About this loneliness/individuation one can
still talk publicly, as Heidegger did, with
all reservations. Heidegger also said to
Wisser: "Yes, your question *is* a question,
but not mine." To clarify the question
of being on tv, is already very difficult
- Wisser is constantly afraid, Heidegger
in the end won't do it - but as to the question
of solitude, his solitude, it is impossible.
(Springer etc.) So loneliness here, in the
lecture, would regard his, Heidegger's question.
The question of the loneliness of Heidegger
and of everybody else in this world is another
one, and maybe can be talked about privately.
Or in a different medium, I remember again
the play by Lorca, wherein an old professor,
called Martin, is disparaged by his own pupils,
and Heidegger, who was attending it together
with Petzet, whispered in his ear: that's
me.
The interview has been the only one on tv,
H. granted during his life and, together
with the Spiegel-interview, was planned deliberately,
as everything he did vis-a-vis the public
world. Incl. what he publicized when.
I'll have to think longer about the rest
of your mail, esp. about: "There is
still something Heidegger wants."
I don't think the missing of a public as
such is decisive with Hoelderlin and Nietzsche.
During his last years Nietzsche started to
break through. He corresponded with Taine,
and Brandes' discovery, he knew, was the
beginning of his "fame". But then
something else started. He seemed rather
to *loose* his solitude, the domain of finitude,
by becoming Dionysos. And Hoelderlin wrote
from Bordeaux: Apollo has hit me. I'm not
sure, what role Mme Gontard played in this.
Back home, he wrote in utmost concentration
some of his finest poems.
Anyway, this is endless. Van Gogh, Dostojevsky's
"Idiot" ... Nietzsche: who besides
me, knows, what Ariadne is?
(May I recommend to you: "Aladin's problem"
by Ernst Juenger, which has to do with this?)
thanks,
Rene
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