Identity Difference Repetition

At over 200 million, the population of Uttar Pradesh is now double the world-wide target population of 100 million put forward by Arne Naess.

And having exceeded 5 million, what was to be the target population of the former nation of Norway?

With some 200 Sumatran rhinos remaining, what was the ratio of rhino to hominid back in the golden age before, say, the mastery of cave fire?

A game with numbers: very human.

Metro Lucknow is about the population of metro Montreal; Kanpur about the same.

The Oslo region is about half as many as either.

And thanks to Arne Naess, Oslo philosophers are required to prove that they can use set theory to show that they can say what they mean.

Now let us compare mountains, while trying to think like the repeating difference.

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Heidegger in Japanese

While the Kanji  顧  for "there arises a looking back" occurs in many compounds concerning customers and advice, it is also found in editc2 as

顧慮 [こりょ] /(n,vs) concern/solicitude/consideration/EntL1267890X/

後顧 [こうこ] /(n) looking back/worry/anxiety/EntL1269630X/

後顧の憂い [こうこのうれい] /(n) anxiety (about the future)/EntL1651830X/

and in expressions concerning indecision.

Doctrine holds that the radical (181) is 頁.

The character is also present in Chinese and Korean family names as Gu, Koo or Ku.

My kanji.aule-browser.com summary follows:

顧, \u9867, Henshall 1235, look back, review, examine oneself, turn around
Skip code 1-12-9
urlencoding %E9%A1%A7
utf-8 E9A1A7

See also:
顧みて他を言う [かえりみてたをいう] /(exp,v5u) to give an evasive answer/EntL1864160X/
顧みる(P);省みる(P);顧る(io) [かえりみる] /(v1,vt) (1) to look back (e.g. over shoulder or at the past)/to turn around/to review/(2) to reflect/to reconsider/(3) (esp. 省みる) to consider (usu. used in negative)/to concern oneself about/(P)/EntL1267870X/

For copyright, see http://www.edrdg.org/edrdg/licence.html

Journal de voyage au Canada

Robert Laffont published this 1972 Michel Tournier journal in 1984.  It is difficult to take seriously.

The reason for publication: it pre-dates Les Météores (1975) and has a few notes on Le Roi des aulnes (1970) and Vendredi ou la Vie sauvage (1971).

Perhaps during the writing of the Tiffauges tale, Tournier missed Marital Law in Canada (the October Crisis.)  Jean Drapeau may not have mentioned it ( he had the 1976 Olympics on his mind.)  Where was Tournier when Charles De Gaulle called for a free Quebec («Vive le Québec libre ! ») in the summer of '67 ?

His editor lets him down repeatedly (see my review at amazon.ca) with examples such as "Times" for "Time Magazine" (pg 152.)

Had Tournier visited Lac St Jean, he might have heard a French somewhat closer to that of Normandy and seen something of "electricity" in rural Quebec before the James Bay projects.

Was he really not aware that The Bank of Montreal was also on Place d'Armes?

His ability to recognize "Eskimo" on the streets of Vancouver is very embarrassing.

But why ever is this journal still in print?  What merit is it supposed to have?

It is as unflattering a portrait of the author as it is of 1972 Canada.

Was it prior to 1984 that Marcel Brisebois interviewed Michel Tournier on "Rencontres"? My best guess is 1982 or 1983 (Glenn Gould dies in '82, Raymond Aron in '83.)  Brisebois became director of Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal  in 1985.  Was the interview conducted in France ?  Gilles et Jeanne was published in 1983.

The few pages on Kandinsky may be of interest.  There is one mention of Heidegger.

note: ISBN 0777701812, 9780777701812
Google Books link: digitized, but no preview (Canada, March, 2012.)

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Proto-ghazals and limerence

Dorothy Terrov's concept of 'limerence" would seem to find confirmation in the earliest form of the ghazal, prior to Islam.

With the recent unremarked passing of lupercalia, we have the one link to Marburg through Elizabeth of Hungary (married at 14, died aged 24.)

Imagine how different Sein und Ziet might be if only one or the other had behaved differently: Martin, Hannah or both.

From his letter, we see clearly the limerent moment.

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Issa Spyglass

Perhaps Heidegger was misled by his Japanese aristocrat student: Issa did not say "telescope".  He was speaking of a "spyglass".

He must have waited his turn with his 3 coins - but what was he expecting to see as if near?  Fuji-san?

That three-kanji combination is now archaic, but was not in 1790.

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Worringer Heidegger

I am not the first to note parallels between Heidegger and Worringer.

Worringer's text shows astonishing parallels to Heidegger's later etcetera

Here in New Brunswick I have no access to the German original of Abstraction and Empathy [1908/1919] but the second section of part II has entire paragraphs which could be used as an alternative to Heidegger's Feldweg altogether. Forget Die Kehre, we had the gist succinctly stated by Worringer and so much more easily disputed, extended or defended.  And more readily understood.

The "Etat de l'Âme" of Worringer need only be taken as the Stimmung of Heidegger and great deal more of his views of a return via "before Plato" seem simplified.  And relativized.

Does Husserl anywhere comment on Worringer?  See the relation of both to T. Lipps.

Did Heidegger assume this echo was present for his listener, his reader?  Did this come to him via Jaspers, Arendt or even both?  Heidegger seems to come to Van Gogh rather late (see his correspondence.)

Abstraktion und Einfühlung Wilhelm Worringer

See notes on Hoelderlin, Kunst, Dichter, Gedichte

Note: the Heidegger/Arendt attack on the telescope of Galileo - why not also the teknik of the press of Gutenberg and leaden moveable type?

The hyperborean moons of Jupiter and 20/200 vision above 3000m altitude: the tale and claims of a liar?

Yad Vashem and Marburg an der Lahn

The Press and Public Relations department of Marburg provided Yad Vashem with invaluable photographs for Marburg an der Lahn or Landkreis Marburg-Biedenkopf during the 1930's.

A student humiliated (passing over the 1892 Weidenhäuser Brücke on the Lahn linking Marburg old-town centre and Weidenhausen; incident dated 1933-08-24.) There is no note at the site as to the date when Marburg provided Yad Vashem with the photograph.

Today's missing synagogue.

Antisemitic parade in Marburg (photograph dated February 1936.).

The synagogue burning, Kristallnacht in Marburg.

My incidental notes:

Other references to KZ and Lager in the Marburg area.

Marburg Synagogue Rededicated, 1946 (not noted: tiny and not in old quarter; members are DP's and local war-time Allied military and others; note flags.)

Note: Marburg-Uni had been home to Otto Böckel and the rise of 19th Century antisemitism as a German political movement at a time when the great synagogue of 1897 was being built.

For the Marburg Uni's Center for Conflict Studies, see this English start-page.

The fate of forced labour in the area, the handicapped in the town hospital and others (the mentally ill, the retarded) is documented at the University of Minnesota and elsewhere.

For an Allied decision to bomb an asylum for the mentally-ill, see histories of Operation Market Garden and "The Great Mistake".  Allied failures to take prisoners among child troops is also reported during this military debacle to "end a war by Christmas".