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Jeff Collins

Introducing Heidegger

  • Elena Akaevahas quoted3 years ago
    And a darker hint is his known admiration for the totalitarian social doctrines of the novelist Ernst Jünger (b. 1895), an acquaintance and correspondent.
  • Elena Akaevahas quoted3 years ago
    But his later texts carry some hints – a sense of fundamental crisis, of anarchistic individualism as the only way that humans can transcend the situations into which they are thrown.
  • Elena Akaevahas quoted3 years ago
    René Descartes (1596–1650) had proposed a distinction between SUBJECT and OBJECT: the “knowing subject” was identified with the conscious, rational mind – the Ego – whose own processes of reasoning offered the assured knowledge of the “objects” of the world, “out there” beyond it.
  • Elena Akaevahas quoted3 years ago
    As a transcendental Being, the uncaused causer, God had to encompass and generate all other beings – all substances and attributes.
  • Elena Akaevahas quoted3 years ago
    Heidegger entered a world of fitful collisions between continuity and change, settled existences and dynamic mobilities.
  • Elena Akaevahas quoted3 years ago
    world of new invention, permeated by the rhetorics of modernism: progress, change, valorization of the new.
  • Elena Akaevahas quoted3 years ago
    Freiburg connected to a different world, one marked by modernity: burgeoning metropolitan cities, time-compressing transport and telecommunications (the telephone, for commerce of all kinds), industrialization, mechanization (new labour patterns, new forms of social life).
  • Elena Akaevahas quoted3 years ago
    Ontology – thinking about being – has been part of Western philosophy since its inauguration in Greece in the 5th century BC.
  • Elena Akaevahas quoted3 years ago
    Resisting sensory apprehension, characterization, disposability, commodification, measurement, etc., being is highly resistant to our usual ways of dealing with, and thinking about, beings ...
  • Elena Akaevahas quoted3 years ago
    ONTOLOGICAL: a statement concerning the being of such entities ...
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