Sunday, April 25, 2010

Derrida quoting Heidegger

In the paragraph of the Einführung in der Metaphysik which follows upon his treatment of heliocentrism, Heidegger makes one of his little puns: "nur der überkluge Witz" - he means of course the Spirit of the Enlightenment - reduced to a clever joke.

The problem in quoting from Heidegger is demonstrated in the Derrida text: two views are required - one with the mere text and another with the text adumbrated.

I will post the Derrida quotation over at aule-browser.com with 2 variants using the Curl web content language.

An alternative presentation of the 1953 Tübingen Max Niemeyer Verlag edition would begin with a quote from the first line of what we deem to be Aristotle's "post-physics"
πάντες ἄνθρωποι τοῦ εἰδέναι ὀρέγονται φύσει.
Aristotle does not say "cleverness" or "obscurity" or "oracular" or "prophetic" or "dythrambic" but
τοῦ εἰδέναι
Pan + anthropoi -- not Das Volk and their "guide" -- and Eidos -- and then our very nature: physei and then a word with which Heidegger could never be comfortable in the open: oregon

1 comment:

  1. For the Derrida, see his 1987 contribution on l'Esprit
    For the Heidegger see Seite 80, of "Einführung in die Metaphysik"

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