Category: heidegger

• Quaeritur: Aber ein Sturm…

  Dec 30

  How does a poet write history? I once began with this question. But after several years of focusing on the first part of my questionable query, I find myself now… more ›

• Extreme Humanism and the Name(d): A Leap over the Threshold of Language (Part IV of IV)

  Jul 14

  Throughout his later work, Heidegger carefully divests us human beings from our subjectivism, our techno-productionist views of the world, as well as our various forms of humanisms; that is, he… more ›

• Extreme Humanism and the Name(d): A Leap over the Threshold of Language (Part III of IV)

  Jul 12

  At first glance, the abyss separating human beings from animals within Heidegger’s work seems to allow for the greater possibility that human beings can be seen as privileged subjects and… more ›

• Extreme Humanism and the Name(d): A Leap over the Threshold of Language (Part II of IV)

  Jul 10

  World comes to the fore within Heidegger’s exploration of the humanity of human beings. Significantly, the etymological origins of world tend more toward time and historicity (as in “the age… more ›

• Extreme Humanism and the Name(d): A Leap over the Threshold of Language (Part I of IV)

  Jul 8

  What is the nature of language? What is the language of nature? Is it solely language that distinguishes human beings from animals, or is the difference between the two more… more ›