Comments on: The writing style of Being and Time https://www.monomorphic.org/wordpress/the-writing-style-of-being-and-time/ Conceptual meandering Fri, 04 Jan 2013 14:49:13 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 By: johan https://www.monomorphic.org/wordpress/the-writing-style-of-being-and-time/comment-page-1/#comment-17191 Fri, 04 Jan 2013 14:49:13 +0000 http://www.monomorphic.org/wordpress/?p=1148#comment-17191 Fri intellektuell: Thanks, but I just summarised what you wrote.

Zizek might be right, or almost. I believe that I have found irony or sarcasm in at least two places in Being & Time. After hundreds of pages of seriousness and tension, even a tiny hint of sarcasm is hilarious.

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By: fri intellektuell https://www.monomorphic.org/wordpress/the-writing-style-of-being-and-time/comment-page-1/#comment-17136 Thu, 03 Jan 2013 13:05:57 +0000 http://www.monomorphic.org/wordpress/?p=1148#comment-17136 t pretension and humor kind of opposites? Slavoj Zizek has named Heidegger “the philosopher who is completely devoid of any sense of humor” (The Parallax View, page 110). Although Heidegger doesn’t promise more than he delivers, he also doesn’t relativize what he delivers.]]> Thankyou for explaining my point in a far better way than I did myself : )

Some people would describe writing in a deliberately dense and difficult style as utterly pretentious in itself (also if there is a reason behind the difficulty, as you explain in your next post). Isn’t pretension and humor kind of opposites? Slavoj Zizek has named Heidegger “the philosopher who is completely devoid of any sense of humor” (The Parallax View, page 110). Although Heidegger doesn’t promise more than he delivers, he also doesn’t relativize what he delivers.

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By: Monomorphic - The writing style of Being and Time (2) https://www.monomorphic.org/wordpress/the-writing-style-of-being-and-time/comment-page-1/#comment-17083 Thu, 03 Jan 2013 02:36:17 +0000 http://www.monomorphic.org/wordpress/?p=1148#comment-17083 […] I can see two valid reasons for Being and Time to be written in its peculiarly difficult style. The subject matter that Heidegger wants to explore is sufficiently novel that no simple path to it […]

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