Showing posts with label Marburg. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Marburg. Show all posts
Saturday, February 18, 2012
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.
Monday, February 6, 2012
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.
Sunday, June 12, 2011
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".
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".
Thursday, May 27, 2010
Heidegger, Arendt, Jaspers
I have not seen a plain word spoken on Heidegger handing his willing Arendt to his friend Jaspers.
Heidegger remarks somewhere about Jaspers refusal to leave his Jewish wife. Did Heidegger imagine in some way that they would share his wood nymph?
Ambiguity remains in just how Heidegger and Arendt negotiated her transfer from Marburg to Heidelberg. Jaspers response to Arendt's disclosure decades later was something of a surprise. Was he inept at feigning ignorance?
The "transfer" to the esteemed Jaspers has its counterpart in her loveless marriage to the despised Guenther Stern. And with regard to both Stern and Arendt, the name of Hans Jonas.
In Heidegger's Children, Richard Wolin seems to indicate that there was nothing more to say about Jonas seeking out Arendt: there is no reference to a source. Heidegger simply sent him.
Heidegger remarks somewhere about Jaspers refusal to leave his Jewish wife. Did Heidegger imagine in some way that they would share his wood nymph?
Ambiguity remains in just how Heidegger and Arendt negotiated her transfer from Marburg to Heidelberg. Jaspers response to Arendt's disclosure decades later was something of a surprise. Was he inept at feigning ignorance?
The "transfer" to the esteemed Jaspers has its counterpart in her loveless marriage to the despised Guenther Stern. And with regard to both Stern and Arendt, the name of Hans Jonas.
In Heidegger's Children, Richard Wolin seems to indicate that there was nothing more to say about Jonas seeking out Arendt: there is no reference to a source. Heidegger simply sent him.
Thursday, May 13, 2010
Another absence in the Martin Heidegger letters
The absence of an index in the GA volume of Vorträge unde Aufsätze may reflect Heidegger's view on "der Leser".
The absence of one particular entry in the index to the English translation of "Letters to his Wife" is vexing: it may reflect the use of digital indexing and the exclusion of "common words". The missing term is culture or Kultur. There are a few old Indo-European words which any reader should know and this is one.
I have added two notes: page 137 and page 190 which correspond to his letter 19320620 and his 19450614.
While both remarks are distasteful as quotations, they are perhaps not as troubling as his repeated mention in other works of those who "reckon" or "calculate".
Unlike correspondence between Jaspers and Arnedt with its many discussions of "German" and "Jewish", in the letters to Elfride the English translators have the term "Jews" in the index refer the reader to "anti-Semitism." This is astonishing. If many politically radicalized Jews were attracted to Communism then his remark to that effect is to indicate what? A lack of anti-Semitism? His literary executors proved unable to translate one of his remarks; another appears to be a repetition of a stereotypical insult.
But the absence for me will always be the Jews of Marburg. How many mezuzah were neglected on doorframes? Where is the map of Marburg for December 1938? Who later retired in comfort from the sale of such a house in 1965, 1975? How were the tax-rolls of Marburg lost in the undamaged town? Lost in a town so free of the "culture" that the Heideggers despised? What would be a simple index on such a map?
When Heidegger says hegen it is as if the forest has not only a steward, but a shepherd. And the houses in the town, what he called "Wohnhäuser" - who was to be the steward of those absent names and each Mezuzuh "en-framed"?
The absence of one particular entry in the index to the English translation of "Letters to his Wife" is vexing: it may reflect the use of digital indexing and the exclusion of "common words". The missing term is culture or Kultur. There are a few old Indo-European words which any reader should know and this is one.
I have added two notes: page 137 and page 190 which correspond to his letter 19320620 and his 19450614.
While both remarks are distasteful as quotations, they are perhaps not as troubling as his repeated mention in other works of those who "reckon" or "calculate".
Unlike correspondence between Jaspers and Arnedt with its many discussions of "German" and "Jewish", in the letters to Elfride the English translators have the term "Jews" in the index refer the reader to "anti-Semitism." This is astonishing. If many politically radicalized Jews were attracted to Communism then his remark to that effect is to indicate what? A lack of anti-Semitism? His literary executors proved unable to translate one of his remarks; another appears to be a repetition of a stereotypical insult.
But the absence for me will always be the Jews of Marburg. How many mezuzah were neglected on doorframes? Where is the map of Marburg for December 1938? Who later retired in comfort from the sale of such a house in 1965, 1975? How were the tax-rolls of Marburg lost in the undamaged town? Lost in a town so free of the "culture" that the Heideggers despised? What would be a simple index on such a map?
When Heidegger says hegen it is as if the forest has not only a steward, but a shepherd. And the houses in the town, what he called "Wohnhäuser" - who was to be the steward of those absent names and each Mezuzuh "en-framed"?
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