Showing posts with label Witz. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Witz. Show all posts

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