Small talk on big books
Dec. 13th, 2005 05:15 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
franceslievensMe (having put the phone down after a way too long call): That was A.
P.: I know.
Me: (stunned look)
P.: I don't know anyone else you have casual phone conversations with on Heidegger.
(I did find out what irritates me in Heidegger's work: his constant use of etymology to poke at the truth of things, at their "true meaning". Because the etymology is infallible, in her we find experiences that have come down to us from our ancestors. I prefer paragraph 7 in the work of another philosopher (nevertheless here used completely wrong and out of context): Wovon man nicht sprechen kann, darüber muß man schweigen.)
P.: I know.
Me: (stunned look)
P.: I don't know anyone else you have casual phone conversations with on Heidegger.
(I did find out what irritates me in Heidegger's work: his constant use of etymology to poke at the truth of things, at their "true meaning". Because the etymology is infallible, in her we find experiences that have come down to us from our ancestors. I prefer paragraph 7 in the work of another philosopher (nevertheless here used completely wrong and out of context): Wovon man nicht sprechen kann, darüber muß man schweigen.)
