a note about Heidegger and the university

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added discussion: August 25, 2024, second half below

Heidegger’s interest in transforming the university began relatively early in his career. For example: In a passionate letter to Karl Löwith, August 1921 (Heidegger was already 31!), he was very intent that...

the old university cannot be overcome [through merely replacing] the “intellectualism” of fossilized lecturers [with] individuals whom one considers to be richer, more lively, and deeper; instead it can be overcome only by returning to the origins of action in what has survived in contemporary facticity and by deciding for oneself what one can do....we [are to] sacrifice ourselves and find our way back into our existential limitation and facticity rather than reflecting our way off into programs and universal problems....

Want: balancing desire (ideality)and need (“reality”)

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When I’m facing a backlog of “home work” (life management chores), that causes updating of the site home page to be brief—though such “facing” is an interesting theme. 



 Pragmatically speaking—in a sense of balancing ideal (creative) interests and

 real (life managerial) interests—a conception of “balancing” is always at least implicit for actually living well (real-ly); and is appealing as a topic for thinking (creative-ly). 


site development as creative process

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Earlier this month, I uploaded a page from 2007 that’s very important to me: “Flows in living well”; and 30 old Habermasian postings, explained on a page about it all. The two pages are briefly explained in the update note for June 13.

spring 2017

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June 13:

Many discursive postings that I did in a blog that I never promoted have been put into this blog and our evolving—over 150 deliberative postings (and fun ones, for example: bizarre, more bizarre, and lightly wise). Those are postings prior to 2010 or so, tagged at each blog (by Web site Area at our evolving, more obliquely here).

a note on liminality of being

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This week, a professional mime talked about the nature of performance for the PBS News Hour (link, at the end here, after I enstance my own frame on it).
His is an artistic take on performance, but its implicit value to me includes its dramatizing how all action is performance: We do things, either at a distance of self in the stance toward the action (particular intent); or/and with a frame (or perspective) on the situation that’s relevant to action. We tailor our action (at least implicitly) to be apt in a twofold way: apt to our limited intention (stance) and apt for the situation (relevant frame). We make stances toward enacting by limiting our intent. We make frames toward acting dressed by what’s suitable.

“To be clear, this was reality, not ‘SNL.’”

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My title is a line in the Washington Post article about last night’s episode of Saturday Night Live. Clarity is good.

Getting to the clearing may be difficult for some sensibilities; e.g., seeing the unbearable uncanniness of one’s ordinariness (not to mention the unbearable persistence of viciousness, etc.)

creative process, event of appropriation

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My landscape of topics ahead feels so rich that I want to enjoy not yet deciding where to go next. Like having a clear conception of a painting, which doesn’t determine what part to begin with or to work on next, a story may be written from scenic designs that pop up with no hint yet where in a grand narrative they are to belong. Voices play around. A jazz of characters play their lives, while the painter-writer-composer documents in witness...