Subject: Re: Mind & Body, One More Time
Date: Sun, 5 Jul 1998 12:24:39 +0200


this this the kind of American banality I was talking about, in a (for
foreingers) difficult slang, not very different from the jargon he (sheetz)
is critizising...
Rafael
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Von: Robert V. Scheetz <ay581-AT-yfn.ysu.edu>
An: heidegger-AT-lists.village.Virginia.EDU
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Datum: Samstag, 4. Juli 1998 22:22
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>>Of course. There is, however, very little that is "American" in my views
>>here! Now, the American tendency *not* to learn foreign languages is of
>>not so good. Please do not attribute this to my xenophobia or whatever
>>senf-centered ignorance or "ugly Americanism" you might (understandably)
>>imagine. I don't learn foriegn languages for one reason only: I don't have
>>the energy for it. I am *poor*, in a more essential definition of poverty
>>which perhaps the likes of Heidegger can help to illuminate. In point of
>>fact, one project I have had in mind for a long time is a kind of
>>phenomenological exploration of language learning that would be on par
>>with David Sudnow's phenomenological exploration of learning jazz piano,
>>with a view, perhaps, towards designing better literacy programs in, say,
>>"third world" contries and inner city settings. Along with this could be a
>>project that has to do with programmed learning that integrates such
>>knowledge in certain ways in order to enable language learning. Illiteracy
>>is probably the single greatest problem in countries and places where
>>there is much starvation and violence. Again, lack of "energy" hold me
>>back from this, just one project of many...
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>don't listen to em, tom.
>these fellers 'r un-de-structured...
> plying the everyday comportment of their trade
>(wordswordswords)
>...all this grammato-philologico-linguistico lumber 's the
>same old modernist swindle...
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>the rarefied heights of todtnauberg
>coheres somehow with the mud 'n th'blood 'n th'beer of messkirch/frieberg?
>(wherein, sure, the koine figures somehow integrally with
>the entire  life-world...
>eye of newt 'n toe of frog ... hell's broth,
>which it is the normal business of mad pedagogs to tease out)
>but, for think'n,
>polemic 's the item...
>dialectically sloggin the forestpaths...
>and whatever's to hand for method
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>re nationalism/nazism:i'd match  the nihilism
>of our tobacco road bill's bottomless narcissism gainst all commers, quick
'r dead...
>as also our pop/lumpen cult  (hip-hoppers'd make skinheads blush) .
>...but as with H & co it is yet the banality of nihilism, not its
fearsomeness,
>that impresses.
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>july 4 salutations
>bob
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