We read sections 137 and 138 of Contributions to Philosophy (of the Event). Herein is discussed the fact that beyng is not some accessory to being, that beyng is not knowable through presencing, and that understanding is the opposite of an I-subject and its lived experiences, but is instead the self coming to itself in…
Read MoreWe read all of section 136 in which Heidegger discusses the relationship between beyng and being, highlighting the disposition of restraint by Dasein against its availability to the gods, the role of the actual, and the “privileged now” theory of time of the first beginning and the other beginning’s concept of memory, preparedness, and a…
Read MoreIn sections 134 and 135 we read about how the “relation” between Dasein and beyng is in a sense not a relation at all, at least not in the way subject/object is. Beyng essentially occurs via an appropriation of Dasein, so they exist in a dynamic interplay. From here we discuss the liberal aversion to…
Read MoreIn section 133 we read of beyng needing humans and humans belonging to beyng, of the uniqueness, unrepresentability, strangeness, and self-concealment of beyng, and of giving up our lostness in beings in order to be appropriated by beyng. We then discuss art, creativity, failure and poo-pooing in the context of the liberal compulsion toward domination….
Read MoreIn sections 131 and 132 of Heidegger’s Contributions to Philosophy (of the Event) we read about the excess that comes of the self-concealing, withdrawing from the mathematical retrogression that comes of objective conditions of possibility, and leaping into the truth of beyng rather than preliminarily defining the ontological distinction between beings and beyng. We then…
Read More
In section 130 of Contributions to Philosophy (of the Event) we read about how beyng essentially occurs as the event, how no formula can say what is essential, how beings emerge out of beyng, and how strangeness is a common characteristic of beyng. From here we discuss the liberal tendencies to demonize alienation, negate nature,…
Read More
In sections 128 and 129 we read of human beings having exclusive access to beyng via the self, of nothingness, not as negativity, but as a no that is an essential, creative yes, and of the spurious distinction between affirmation and negation. We then talk about how these ideas point to problems with escaping the…
Read More
In section 127 of Contributions to Philosophy (of the Event) we read of the intimacy of beyng that is attained via the fissure that is created thru the refusal. In this fissure can be found our trembling and the battle among the gods. We then discuss some possible implications of this framework for how the…
Read More
In sections 125 and 126 we read about the connections among beyng and God and being in philosophical history and in the creation process, how beyng attains its greatness by being that which the gods need, and of the necessity for art in whose work the truth is set in bringing being to beyng. We…
Read More
In sections 124 and the first half of 125, we read about the task of bringing the essential occurrence of beyng into the grasping word and how time must become the ecstatic playing field of the truth of beyng. From these perspectives we discuss communism as violence, the dangers of fraud yoga, and “everything must…
Read More