/lit/ - Literature

>>13342841
read Being and Time faggot, wikipedia is poisoning your understanding

>>12518575
>Heidegger said philosophy can't save us, only a god can. By this he meant Christ
doubt

>>12375983
there is no "return to our roots". you are caught imagining Heidegger as a historicist philosopher, which is an easy enough mistake to make. Heidegger would say something like: "the world of the Greeks is dead", which is literally to say, the meaning that the Greeks uncovered in their statues is not the same meaning we will uncover in them. there is no return to a prior conception of meaning, because remember, meaning is imminent, it exists in your engagement with your world right this very second. Heidegger talks a lot about the primordial, which can make people imagine he wants to return to an earlier point in history, but that is missing what he means by primordial. Dasein constitutes itself through historicality, but Dasein itself is primordial, it is imminent:
>In the fact of its Being, Dasein is as it already was.

>>11972529
17. Not to live as if you had endless years ahead of you. Death overshadows you. While you're alive and able--be good. - Book Four, p 46.

Solid stuff.

>>11754057
>tfw my favorite book doesn't have any 1-stars

>>11740371
BEING IN THE WORLD!
BE HERE NOW!
YOU BELONG HERE NOW!

>>11683248
the problem is Heidegger is he was never able to really deal with Time. Time was what killed Being and Time. after all, where is there room for development in the round dance of concealing and revealing? Land (to me, at least) serves as a particularly useful lens to fix this skew; development doesn't occur within, it occurs without. Dasein, properly speaking, can no longer be seen as something internal, subjective, and most important, no longer something phenomenal. Land steals the spotlight from phenomenology and turns out outside -- history is not only a trancendental, it lies outside of the realm of the Human entirely. this is where Deleuzian becoming-Other clicks in, and Land targets not only Oedipus, but the Human itself ("a 'snake-becoming' forming the first stage of bodily destratification"). obviously Land would say his praxis was broken, but its remnants are much harder to wash off.

>>10985268
If you haven't studied Heidegger you can't even talk about Being in a modern philosophical context; he's that influential.

>>10841826
Heidegger: An Introduction by Richard Polt
Good luck anon, that is one on the hardest books in philosophy. I hope you have a good grasp on the continental tradition too, although he doesn't borrow much explicitly, it helps understand his approach.

>>10829129
It's time for you to stop posting

>>10603715
>I think it was a John Green book
got him

>>10325620
>mfw right-wing ideologues still try and claim his as /theirguy/ cause he was joined the Nazi party
>mfw right leaning intellectuals never even touched his philosophical project
>mfw Heidegger will go down as the father of post-modern thought