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There are many years of things that could be listed here. But influence by Heidegger is so integral to me—echoing back to my mid-20s (in the mid-1970s)—that I might consider everything I write to be in light of his thinking.
Some pages within this project that are especially important for me are: “...flow,...design,... cultivate,” which dwells with a Heideggerian notion of emplacement <—> enframing (and was fun to do). “Fourfolding” is an approach to conceptual prospecting. “On a way of being” is a beginning for excursions that will reach back into decades of living with Heidegger.
“Heidegger and reading political times” above is marginally important (though carefully done—but only partially presented). It was motivated by ongoing controversies (which are likely to get sillier in coming years).
Presently, my projects are growing in non-Heideggerian terms. Yet, one intent of that—one horizon, a telic cohering of my interest in doing this Heideggerian portion of the site—is to show good ways into Heidegger’s ways, especially relative to our ethos, our contemporaneity. There’s more to scholarship than scholasticism (though this point seems to elude many scholars in academic business).
The September note below feels tiresome to me now, a creature of that autumn. But since my project is proximally for beginning students of his work, I will keep the little set of paragraphs.
Going my own way is gradually getting good form (through subarea listings here), but life is to be eternally met by more beginnings.
September, 2014
Each new generation of students may feel as if history begins with you—which is true, to some degree. What might be lastingly important for our accelerated times?
Sustainability of our Anthropocenic epoch is ultimately important. Also, legacy can be ultimately important, inherited and worth advancing beyond itself, like honoring influences by striving for excellent work that influences ( “paying forward,” it’s said), in effect giving the dead reincarnation, if not immortality, through one’s ownmost work, altogether contributing to Our evolving.
Nobody in the 20th century had a conception of Anthropocene (though Heidegger was appealing for “planetary thinking” before the environmental movement of the ’70s, leading to the “planet management” movement of the ’90s, now to struggles for UN climate accords that can have force of law).
We evolved to here, now, and we develop a life in light of there being the evolving—in ever more need of insight—fundamental, lasting insight—originality, origination that may gain lasting efficacy. In light of appealing futures, we draw pasts.
Of course, a pretense of hope for high efficacy, of becoming original, would be profoundly innocent of you—of you. Thank goodness.
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