Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2003 17:24:51 +0100
Subject: Re: post-nietzschean post


At 15:13 14-3-03 +0000, you wrote:
>Ok Rene, seriously here, Yes there is post-Nietzschian philosophy. Heidegger 
>is post-Nietzschian philosophy. Levinas is post-Nietzschian philosophy. The 
>sense in which Nietzsche never dies is true of Aristotle as much as 
>Nietzsche, so that's obviously not what I meant. 


To Heidegger, 'Nietzsche' is the whole of nihilism/metaphysics,
therefore also including Aristoteles, specificly when it comes to time.


What I meant was what you 
>are willing to do, but Kenneth is not. You have at least expressed a 
>willingness to learn post-Nietzschian philosophies, such as that of Levinas, 
>before simply dismissing it. You at least don't burn books before reading 
>them. So perhaps you are the one who can finally convince Kenneth to get rid 
>of those limitations in knowledge that he spoke of in a brief moment of 
>genuine humility 5 months ago. After all, you two seem to resonate, and 
>that's why he's here.

We're all doing our best, don't we?

But you bet he is learning about philosophers, who lived after Nietzsche.
Apart from his own reading fruits, his way of reading Heidegger  - a way
that looks in HIS case much more profitable than studying GA's - is reading
us all, is a little ticktocking on our heads with the hammer, or better with
a tuning fork, and giving his severe but always supramild judgment. 

There is no democracy in thinking. *We* can demand from each other
that we read the texts. Over against Kenneth, that would be out of place,
almost insulting. Resonate is a good word. We are persons, that is 
per-sonare, resonance boxes, with polyphonic devices to mix voices of
others. 
 
Your way of resonating is irritating to him, the causes of which it is
worthwhile,
if you ask me, for you to go after. If you have a gift, you're responsible
for it.
You are intelligent, but sometimes hard to get going.
Then he is reminding you. 
Not at all to convince you, and I would like to add: that goes for me too. 
One has only oneself to return to, so loosing oneself in another is no good
device,

rene


resonating with the rappers:

Nas:
Wanna be me, you can't you faggot, you bitch
You coward, you clown, you just wanna be down
So you - wanna be me, you bitch, you phony
You clone me, you wanna be son, I'm the one and only
But you - wanna be me, you suckers, you weak
You flunkies, you fake, you couldn't come close on my worst day
But you - wanna be me, I burn you and learn you a lesson
Concernin this mic profession, turn your direction





















'Resonate' I like


















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drs. Rene de Bakker
Universiteitsbibliotheek Amsterdam
Afdeling Catalogisering 
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