Re: Rene's comment

on 20/2/04 1:39 am, Marilynn Lawrence at pronoia@xxxxxxx wrote:

> I find Levinas' criticism of Heidegger as totalizing - that is, of covering
> over the Other with the Same - largely unfounded.  Being is not another word
> for the Same.   It will always be more - a element of the concealed and
> unfolding other.

Exactly, be-ing 'is' dif-ference(ing) in the same; an infinitesimally thin
rip that runs like a tear in a fabric but closing up as it reveals,
trac(k)ing of time as it times... In a way, "being" is not a word: it names
nothing, not a thing; once it is made over to name some thing, it makes
being over to be an other thing, another being; be-ing escapes its name and
eludes any linguistic/conceptual prisonhouse [just as sleep eludes me this
cold windy morn]

regards

michaelP



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