Cologne, 24 May 1997
Dear Iain and Henk,
Iain writes:
>>For Heidegger the renaming of the Being of beings--which quietly
circumscribes and predetermines all of our conceptualizations--does found
the state: the renaming of the Being of beings is the polos around which
the polis spins.<<
This more 'impersonal' account contrasts with Henk's:
>>What is Heidegger's idea of the founding of a state in _The origin of
the work of art_? Don't we find here Heidegger's three musketeers back
(artist, thinker, founder of state) - in illustrious company...<<
In some passages in Heidegger, I do indeed think of Heidegger using the ancient
trio of Homer-Plato-Pericles as some sort of model for the present day.
To the statesman I prefer the conception of a recasting and reshaping of the
beyng of beings by way of calyptic subterranean historical undercurrents. This
could be the namelessness of beyng to which H. refers in the _Letter on
Humanism_.
Thanks to Iain for the reference to Dreyfus and comments on H.'s appropriation
of Nietzsche, ontological renewal, etc.
By the way, further to our discussion of renderings of "Entbergen" recently, it
occurs to me that, apart from "decryption", "decalyption" would be a candidate,
which, however, is closer to "unveil" or "uncover". (Gr. _kalyptos_ a. "veiled",
"covered").
Michael
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