“Was not their mistake once more bred of the life of slavery that they had been living?—a life which was always looking upon everything, except mankind, animate and inanimate—‘nature,’ as people used to call it—as one thing, and mankind as another, it was natural to people thinking in this way, that they should try to make ‘nature’ their slave, since they thought ‘nature’ was something outside them” — William Morris


Wednesday, August 17, 2011

Heidegger Waits

My sister in law is studying at a Lutheran seminary in Berkeley. She's about to begin her residence in Eugene Oregon.

I persuaded her that Heidegger was cool so now she has ordered it. She said it would be waiting for her in her new house up there.

Suddenly this struck me as rather Heideggerian. An empty house, with a copy of Being and Time sitting on the doorstep, waiting for the reader. In the future...

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