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Nietzsche has played that role for decades. Apart from the political aspect, the question is, is there any evidence that such readings get the philoso...

Gadamer’s conversation with Ricardo Dottori: D.: Hence the analytic of Dasein in Heidegger. Is this the same thing as the illumination of existence of...

But of course the bits are themselves bits of language (mathematics belongs to language) just as the Word icon is. The Word icon can ‘mean’ a program,...

And what are computer bits an icon for?

Is this problematic of cultural history not also that of natural history? When scientists delve into the earliest and oldest origins of life or of phy...

But you are not just learning from him. The reason you have a perspective in the first place is that your thinking is situated within an intersubjecti...

The former requires a trick of hememeutic acrobatics that runs counter to the historically perspectival nature of authorial interpretation. The only w...

Heidegger’s model of temporality differs from Husserl’s by getting rid of the transcendental ego, among other things. But like Husserl’s, it is neithe...

There isn’t a line, but a horizon of retentions of retentions trailing off into the receding past. It quickly gets really complicated.

Husserl’s solution ( which was also William James’) was to argue that the present moment is ‘specious’. That is , it includes retentions and protentio...

I’m not seeing what Heidegger and Deleuze are providing as constituting a metaphysical ground. I agree that the above authors are forming a whole out ...

The way I read Heidegger, the experience of persisting presence is a kind of illusion , or better yet, distortion, flattening, closing off of the what...

Yes, Heidegger’s account of presence-at-hand and Being as persisting presence are closely related.

I guess you’re right in the general sense that both assimilate the being of the mechanistic world to the will. Of course the devil is in the details. ...

The interpreters of Nietzsche that I am allied with argue that he offered a critique of the assumptions guiding Western science , the main one he form...

The second one.

This sounds like more of a traditional notion of power than a Nierzschean one. As Foucault conceives it, “power is not something that is acquired, sei...

Could you elaborate on that point a bit more?

What drives us this way. As opposed to being driven any other way. An arbitrary foundation. The preferring of one drive, desire , willed outcome over ...

Your starting point seems to be the autonomous individual subject, who decides from their own vantage of free will what to agree or disagree with. But...

So far in this discussion, whether it is considered as more primordial than or secondary to objective aspects of the world, value has been treated ind...

I suppose the following, in which Nietzsche equate eternal return with will to power, is more consistent with the direction of those readings:

Yes indeed. That is the tricky part. So if we make time and becoming the irreducible ‘center’ and ground, how do we do it in a way that doesn’t end up...

This is the familiar anti-pomo argument. As Derrida put it “Since the deconstructionist (which is to say, isn't it, the skeptic-relativist-nihilist!) ...

It’s interesting that almost all ‘postmodern’ readings of eternal return depict it as the return of the same absolutely new difference, rather than th...

I’m getting hints of a complexity theory, dynamical systems-type model here. I do think one can draw all sorts of parallels between Hegelian dialectic...

In one sense, all poststructuralist and phenomenological thinking is indebted to Hegel and shows his influence, thanks in part to Kojeve’s interpretat...

Yes, Heidegger has not abandoned the Husserlian epoche

Moksa is a classic form of nihilism in Nietzsche’s sense of the word. “For Nietzsche nihilism is not in any way simply a phenomenon of decay; rather n...

I don’t see Heidegger as a Kierkegaardian existentialist. His philosophy moved quite a distance from Kierkegaard, despite the surface similarities. In...

Idle talk doesn’t illustrate the sedimented nature of language, as if we directly introject verbal meanings from the culture. On the contrary, idle ta...

I wouldnt say that Heidegger considered language as a mere medium, tool or presupposition that intermediates between thought and expression. What we a...

That’s Heidegger in What is Thinking. Yes, that’s Heidegger again from WIT. The Being of beings is the question of the essence or ground of beings. We...

For Heidegger, will to power, whether you want to call it a force , value-positing or that which makes beings possible, is that which persists as pres...

They are still beings in Heidegger’s reading of Nietzsche. Will to power is a value-positing being. The Being of the eternal return is ‘in time’ rathe...

He’s far from the only contemporary philosopher who believes Plato led Western thinking on the path of truth as objective representation.

In ‘The Word of Nietzsche’, Heidegger says that the thinking of Being as a value is what characterizes Western metaphysics from Aristotle through Niet...

I like the way the I.E.P. explains Heidegger’s relation to metaphysics: “Metaphysics cannot be rejected, canceled or denied, but it can be overcome by...

Given your involvement with psychotherapy, you may be interested in how Heidegger’s work is being applied in cognitive approaches to affectivity. Ther...

Heidegger’s influence on atheists has been equally strong, which has led to constant battles between theological and atheistic interpretations of his ...

There are those, such as Derrida, who argued that Heidegger hadn’t managed to go beyond traditional metaphysics with his approach, but Heidegger himse...

That is exactly why Heidegger argues that Nietzsche’s thinking of Being remains within metaphysics. The tradition has always treated being as a persis...

In BT there is a distinction made between authentic and inauthentic modes of thinking. When we are in the inauthentic mode , we always have in front o...

Heidegger isn’t silent on the question of the good. On the contrary, he is giving us a way to think differently about the justification and grounding ...

Yes it is. The title of the book Being and Time expresses this. First , Being is linked with Dasein , the being there of the human being. To be a dase...

Good points. In What is Thinking, Heidegger says that at first we tend to orient ourselves to what words seem to be, mere expressions of pre-existing ...

It’s easier to dismiss his entire ouvre as a colossally irrelevant and dangerous “anti-modernist, pre/ir-rationalist ("blood"), agrarian ("soil"), tot...

Yes, Dreyfus’ approach was linked to his interest in Kierkegaard. He founded what became known as the West Coast school of Heidegger interpretation, w...

I suppose it depends on who you put in the postmodern camp. On the conservative side, there are those who read him in close proximity to Kierkegaard ,...

Not without profoundly distorting the sense of this line of thought in BT. There are other writings of Heidegger where he specifically singles out the...