--- Allen Scult <allen.scult@xxxxxxxxx> wrote (#164):
> There is an essay on my web page entitled " Hermes' Rhetorical
> problem" which tries
> to outline the shape of this problem a bit, but its thinking is
> "prior" to the present point in our discussion and not directly
> relevant. ( So why am I mentioning it?)
>
>
I want to second Henk's (#166) "Many thanks for your views on
Heidegger and the ethics of hermeneutics in this exchange of
mails!thanks for your wise comments."
"...why am I mentioning it?"
To me: because it's reasonable to expect that a persistent interest
in the warrent of your view of a present context would find helpful
dwelling with readily available background material where you've
already worked to clarify your approach to reading, for you as well
are a witness that may be brought forward (an enfolding of witnessing
into an event about witnessing).
My attitude here occurred to me last Thursday, and I printed all the
pages on your webpage, with the intent to read all that great free
wisdom before corresponding further. I regret to say I didn't make
time for this last weekend, but the intent is definite: This week,
for sure!
A brief excursion: The association of rhetoric and hermeneutics has
been longstanding for me. I add a third modality: pragmatics. And I
think of this as an applied theory of temporal standing: Rhetoric is
in the voice / mode of the future (anticipation, imagination,
potentiation); hermeneutics is in the voice / mode of the past
(remembrance, reconstruction, retrieval);and pragmatics is in the
mode / voice of the present (perception, immanence, maieutic, ongoing
interactivity, clarification). Altogether, these might be understood
as practical modes of Appropriation, in Heidegger's sense (in _On the
Way to Language). Appropriation happens as the temporality of
language, which is rhetorical, hermeneutical, and pragmatic--ideally
altogether in the extended event of Saying (a "complete" discourse).
This is the "spirit" in which I wish to read Heidegger.
Gary
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