Re: ME's new article (3)

Michael Eldred wrote:
>Then the last god's granting is too close to be noticed. 

This is a new setting, even a new mode of being - if it is 
true "dass jede Frage hier endgueltig der Unmoeglichkeit 
einer Antwort gleichkommt" (each question equals here the 
impossibility of an answer; cf. Esposito, in: _Heidegger 
Studies XI_ 60). 
Esposito makes an interesting point when he adds that this 
"impossibility" itself is God. Ergo, if God is Time, there 
is no Time for questioning and answering, for whispering 
and complaining. We step out of the context of an I-You 
relation, i.e. of the awareness of our metaphysical 
isolation. 

Michael:
>I heard Kurtag playing
>John Cage's "Cheap Imitation" on the radio last week -- all single notes, very
>simple, almost nothing at all. So the Minimalism prevalent in painting and music
>after 1945 could be seen as secretly related to what Heidegger calls _das
>Gering_ (the little ring) in which world worlds?

Only if the truth of beings sets itself to work in these 
works, they become works of art. There is no direct - 
let alone a necessary - relation with the worlding of the 
world. 
In a context of not yet and no longer, we probably
experience what might (have) be(en). 
While hearing Kurtag and/or Cage there might remain 
a lingering "and yet ...". 
And isn't it our "choice" to enter into the essence of 
this "..." (nothingness?)?   

Kindest regards,
Henk


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