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 [...]

Philosophical Focus

I notice one other interesting thing at the materialism post at Larval Subjects. Levi says the following: And moreover, as Graham likes to say, if you only ever find yourself talking about the human-world relation then you’re a correlationist. If your philosophy has nothing significant to say about the relation between a rock and soil, [...]

Mormonism, Externalism and OOO

I’d brought up at LDS-Herm my recent comments on Heidegger, Peirce and externalism. While this is one of those topics where there appears no over LDS connection I did find it interesting that this discussion was so close to topics I’ve been studying off and on for many years. In fact this blog got started [...]

More Against Correlationism

Just a quick followup on yesterday’s post on Kant, Heidegger, Peirce and externalism. This is from Gary Fuhrman’s paper I’d linked to in the sideblog earlier.

Avoiding Correlationism

Enowning linked today to Graham Harman explaining Meillassoux’s correlationism critique in Philosophy Today. I thought this would be a great place to engage Peirce and Heidegger with each other. The critique is roughly a Kantian critique. To think things in themselves fails since to think of it immediately turns itself into something not itself. All [...]

Heidegger and Realism

Heidegger’s realism (or lack thereof) has been a topic of many blogs the past few weeks. Sadly it’s come right at what for me has been the second most busy time of the year. So other than the occasional comment at other blogs I’ve not said much. I still don’t really have time to say [...]

Dreyfus and Heidegger

Interesting post over at Minds and Brains. It makes a claim about Dreyfus that is intriguing. (Dreyfus of course has a well received commentary on Being and Time as well as a highly influential class at Berkeley on the same that many subscribe to via iTunes U) …it is this feature of Heideggerian thought which [...]

Levinas, Heidegger & Objects

Enowning linked to a post by dis|closure on “enjoying your objects.” It’s interesting as it raises one place where I think Levinas simply gets Heidegger wrong. Levinas refutes the Heideggerian notion that the existents in our lives, whether they be bread, hammers, pens, etc. are simply tools, or “means of life.” Levinas claims that, though [...]

Heidegger on Dewey

Despite having a lot of parallels with the pragmatism movement Heidegger had a very dim view of American philosophy and Dewey in particular. Pragmatism in general but Dewey in particular thoughts that philosophy had to include all the other kinds of experiences we have beyond what philosophy had traditionally considered. This was a scandal in [...]

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