Trumpery, Heidegger and Derrida

Graham Harman has had up a few posts on what he calls trumpery. The latest includes some bits about Heidegger and Derrida. First let me quote the Derridean bit. Orthodox Derridean: “…as in the shallow and naive charge that Derrida ‘reduces the world to a text.’” Comment: But Derrida does reduce the world to a [...]

Heidegger and Epistemology II

Quick quote from that thesis, “The Status of Epistemology in the Thought of Martin Heidegger,” I mentioned earlier today. Here Bartels is speaking of knowing as bringing out of concealment – an important notion in Heidegger. The idea is that knowledge isn’t merely propositional knowledge or awareness but a kind of know-how for revealing something. [...]

Heidegger and Epistemology

One thing I’ve long wondered about is how to think about epistemology. On the one hand some of the approaches to epistemology common in the analytic tradition seem a bit off to me. I’ve not gone through the details of how this affects the practical reasoning, but clearly some of the critiques that Heidegger leveled [...]

Heidegger on Present-at-Hand Relations

I put up some comments on the sidebar earlier today on present-at-hand relations in Heidegger prompted by Enowning’s repost of an interview with Graham Harman. I wanted to put up a relevant quote. (Note I’ve not yet read Harman’s Tool-Being although I enjoyed his Prince of Networks even though I disagree in some key areas) [...]

Present at Hand

I wanted to continue on something I’d said over at Enowning recently. I think most who have read Heidegger are familiar with his terms read-at-hand and present-at-hand. As part of his analysis of being in the world Heidegger notes the we encounter things in use. This means we encounter things as equipment. When we use [...]

Harmon on Science and Heidegger

Graham Harman at his blog responding to a post at Enowning: “As a scientist, I am fairly satisfied with science’s explanations for raindrops, but find science’s explanation for humans’ concerns unsatisfying, or just missing entirely.” Yes, this is the standard continental attitude. The natural sciences are doing fine already with the non-human world, so let’s [...]

More on the Prefix Paradox

I’ve been thinking a bit more about the Prefix Paradox from the other day, as I don’t think I really put into words well my objections. First, I think when considering it one ought distinguish between belief, assertion, and judgment. The most interesting aspects of the “paradox” are in my mind the epistemological ones. And [...]

Cosmology and Realism

I was rereading an old post from Deontologistics on Heidegger and realism. Part of his discussion is what he perceives to be the change in Heidegger’s thought from the middle to late period. One of the big changes he sees is that concealments becomes not just a feature of Dasein but the outside world itself. [...]

Heidegger, Humans and Language

I think it safe to say that one of the more interesting parts of the latter Heidegger is where he talks about language. One of the more famous quotes is that man doesn’t have language but rather language has man. This has always reminded me of Peirce’s quote that man is a symbol, even though [...]

Ereignis and Peirce

Enowning has up a great little quote from Jussi Backman’s “The Singularity of Being and the Fourfold in the Later Heidegger” which gets at Ereignis. Upon reading it I immediately thought of Peirce. I think this is a good place to examine some of the differences between Peirce and Heidegger instead of their overlap. Some [...]

Language and the House of Being

Interesting snippet up at Enowning on Heidegger’s infamous statement Language is the house of Being. In its home man dwells. Those who think and those who create with words are the guardians of this home. (Heidegger, Letter on Humanism) To me it just means that being shouldn’t be taken as nearly as mysterious as some [...]

New Stambaugh Translation

Enowning posted a note about a revised translation of Being and Time. Rather than being a completely new translation this is the Stambaugh translation only revised by Dennis Schmidt. Presumably this is reaction to many of the complaints about Stambaugh’s version. So there are more German words in brackets. (Will that really make for a [...]

Best OOO Papers and Books?

So after I finish my Hegel and Badiou I wanted to get deeper into Object Oriented Ontology. Now I read quite a few blogs that engage with OOO such as Object Oriented Philosophy , Hyper tiling, Deontologistics, Larval Subjects and so forth. (Sorry, too lazy too look them all up) What I really want is [...]

On Ethics

Paul Ennis has up a good post on Heidegger and the Social. It’s really a kind of reflection on intellectual development. It got me thinking though about my own engagement with Heidegger, Levinas and Derrida and Ethics. Now regular readers know I have a somewhat disparaging view of philosophical ethics. Part of that is more [...]

Heidegger: Most Overrated?

Lots of people have been talking about the most overrated philosopher the past month. Heidegger’s name came up a lot. (For one example among many, this Networkologies post) Let me say my own pick is Kant. Simply because I find him amazingly difficult to read – akin to how others see Derrida. (And I’ll be [...]

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