Re: Bad Writing?

Stuart:

Touche. Have you at hand the sign-up address for the Heidegger list?

Thanks,
Matthew


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>I wrote
>
>> Heidegger, for example, shouldn't be readily
>>>comprehensible. He assumed a great deal of background knowledge in
his
>>work:
>>>who can blame him. And when he is bastardised to suit the purposes of
a
>>>wider audience I can't help but feel that something serious is
missing.
>>
>
>
>Matthew wrote
>
>>You're quite right, although wouldn't you say that he made quite a
nasty
>>habit of "bastardizing" himself--in rectoral addresses, student
>>newspapers, and the like?
>>
>>Just asking.
>
>>
>
>
>Habit is too strong a word. He did this for a couple of years (33-34)
and
>the problems are well documented. But other public lectures etc. were
not a
>bastardisation of his thought, indeed some of his most important late
works
>come from them. The wider issue of Heidegger's politics is not really
the
>concern of this list. But there is a good ongoing discussion of it on
the
>parallel Heidegger mailing group.
>
>Best wishes
>
>Stuart
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