I will have to read Heidegger to clarify "thingness" in his meaning,
for myself.
mando
On Apr 21, 2009, at 6:12 AM, Chris Miller wrote:
There would seem to be three possible responses to an ideology:
subscription,
rejection, and selection (i.e. picking and choosing favorable
elements).
Regarding the one under discussion (call it German Idealism?) --
here's how
our group seems to be sorting out:
*subscription: (Saul, Luc)
*rejection: (Cheerskep, Mando, Miller)
*picking and choosing: William, Boris, Kate
In response the query that began this thread, it's interesting that
even Saul
did not find M.H.'s discussion of thingness to be especially
enlightening.
(i.e. -- it's just Kantian discourse embedded in MH's phenomenology).
I suppose there's no point in arguing matters of faith -- either
you subscribe
to Kantian discourse, or you don't -- but I do think that the
middle ground is
very problematic - since it's an essentialist program -- and if you're
rejecting the essentials, you're rejecting the whole thing.
And there have been some rather catastrophic consequences when
branches of
this discourse, Marxism and Fascism, were adopted by totalitarian
regimes in
the previous century.
(regarding the dire consequences of German idealism in the
artworld, I suppose
that's just a matter of taste)
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