Heidegger+(BB)


 * '...Dasein make no choices, gets carried along by the nobody, and thus ensnares itself in inauthenticity. This process can be reversed only if Dasin specifically brings itself back to itself from its lostness in the "they". But this bringing-back must have that kind of Being by the neglect of which Dasein has lost itself in inauthenticity.' (SuZ, McQuarrie and Robinson, p. 312-3)**

Wittgenstein <-> Heidegger

Translation is a problem of all reading, not merely or uniquely exclusive to changing the words from one language to another.

Weber writes that "By determining the goings-on of technics as radically different from technics itself, Heidegger leads his readers in a quest after something that is not simply equivalent to technology, although it is that without which technology would not be." (p. 63)

While "different" or "to differ" have historically been synonymous with "separate," and that seems to be Weber's intended meaning, the connotation of "special" has been with Anglophones for about a hundred years. "Different" can be thought of as fully, categorically distinct. And when we consider "radically distinct" as a concatenated concept, perhaps I'm being too charitable to Weber. I would not support a reading of Heidegger that would absolutely sever the goings-on of technics from technics itself as a ontological condition, but would rather support the conclusion that these are linguistic or rhetorical mechanisms to conceptually dissolve problematic linguistic contrivances that stand in the way of a more useful ontology of technics. But teasing apart this matter would require at least a full article and months of study, and instead I raise the matter because this problem reveals another: the problem of reading is always a matter of translation, and the issues Weber raises with transitioning Heidegger's text from German to English is likewise not categorically distinct from reading Heidegger in German.

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"When man, in his way, from within unconcealment reveals that which presences, he merely responds to the cal of unconcealment even when he contradicts it. Thus when man, investigating, observing, ensnares nature as an area of his own conceiving, he has already been claimed by a way of revealing that challenges him to approach nature as an object of research, until even the object disappears into the objectlessness of standing-reserve." (Heidegger, p. 19)

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das Zeug, "equipment, gear" according to footnote for page 69 of the McQuarrie and Robinson translation of SuZ. "...can sometimes be used in a way which is comparable to the 'stuff' in such sentences as 'there is plenty of stuff lying around.' In general, however, this pejorative connotation is lacking. For the most part Heidegger uses the term as a collective noun, so that he can say that there is no such thing as '// an // equipment'; but he still uses it oc casionally with an indefinite article to refer to some specific tool or instrument -- some item or bit of equipment."

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"Everywhere everything is ordered to stand by, to be immediately at hand, indeed to stand there just so that it may be on call for a further ordering."