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In Beyond Good and Evil he talks about how the slave morality of Judeo-Christianity brilliantly overthrew its masters. Go look it up. Derrida read a lot of Hei
by forkandwait 13y ago
In Beyond Good and Evil he talks about how the slave morality of Judeo-Christianity brilliantly overthrew its masters. Go look it up.
Derrida read a lot of Heidegger, even wrote some essays on him before Gramma-whatever. Heidegger used the german phrase "destruktion" of the basic ontology of western society. Go look that up too.
- igravious 13y agoYes (ok) he talks about the concept of master/slave morality in Beyond Good and Evil but he talks about a lot of other stuff in that book. He also talks about it in Human, All Too Human and probably other places. I don't remember off the top of my head. But where he explores it at length is in On the Genealogy of Morals. The title's a bit of a giveaway. I've read Beyond Good and Evil a number of times, and I'm sure I'll read it many more times before my number is up, I don't need you to tell me that :-) The only bit of Heidegger I'm going to read is his where he talks about technology. Other than that I'm going to give him a wide enough berth because I don't like his writing style. He can be as profound as he likes and he can destruct whatever ontologies he's into but after having flipped through a bit of Being and Time I have to say no thanks. And in fairness destruktion is not de_construction_. You still haven't told me where to look it up though. Chapter and verse and all that, no? edit: ok, so FreakLegion[1] hereabouts has some pointers and I used my Google-fu and got this[2] which looks helpful. But even that says that Derrida got inspiration but that the terms are not used in the same sense. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6390545 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6390545 [2] http://www.iep.utm.edu/deconst/ http://www.iep.utm.edu/deconst/
- forkandwait 13y agoWhen you say something like "The only bit of Heidegger I am going read" to absolve me from any responsibility of quoting you chapter and verse. Not that I would anyway -- I don't really care if I convince anyone -- if what I say is something you can build on, cool, if not, that is cool too.
- igravious 13y agoBecause of what I'm studying. Digital culture, cybernetics, science/humanities divide, technology, implications thereof... I've discovered that Heidegger is a go-to source when it comes to musings on technology so I know I'm going to be reading that whatever it is (I' m pretty sure it's not Being and Time). I don't have time to read all of B+T because (a) I'm not into the style, and (b) it's a major work that is not related to my studies. So I just want the part that talks about destruktion but it's ok FreakLegion told me so you don't have to.