Sunday, November 6, 2011

Heidegger and Realism Part IV: a brief remark

I realize that the account I gave in the last post sounds a little like one version of 20th Century Analytic philosophy, with science permitted to talk about the world and philosophy concerned with the conditions of such talk. But there are important differences; for one thing, for Heidegger science is not privileged over other modes of ontic disclosure. For another, Heideggerian thinking isn't concerned with the mechanics of signification--logic-- so much as it is an attempt to preserve the world-disclosing potentialities in language, and to cultivate an openness to the event of disclosure. Much more could, of course, be said about this, but this is not the moment for that.

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