Re: heid the conservative?

>Bob Scheetz on "thumbnail heid.":
>1)Class etiology is petty bourgeois, priest-teacher
>(mandarin); which false consciousness predisposed him to a politics 
>of ressentiment and cultural despair, and the fascist error. 
>Fascism is popular, a folk ideology, and revolutionary;  a style
>not to the taste of Mathew Arnold's and Edmund Burke's (Eng Rev &
>Am Rev were, to the despair of Tom Paine, chamber-o-commerce rev's, 
>of course); not careful of the sacred artifact of Tradition, but still
>profoundly reverant of the really antique superstitutions...
>
>2)  Philosophically he begins as a bomb-thrower, clearing the field,
>de-structuring the Thinking of  West Civ.  But if that is the content,
>the form is the archetypal jeremiad or augustinian pastor.  And then
>as his career succeeded, around 1930, he seemed to undergo an
>inversion: the message became arch-conservative (Gks & Holderlin)
>and the form radical, almost a manic contortionism of lang, trying
>to wring its neck to get it to let go the truth...
>

Bob, absolutely brilliant!!! 
i can appreciate the inner twining of dialectic
as well as the ongoingness of the Absolute.  
heidegger as the very embodiment of Aufhebung!
i am hushed by this titanic image...

thanks,
hen



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