<documenta X><blast> Re:<documentaX><blast>dot23
Jaakko Hucklebee (jessec@zipnet.net)
Wed, 03 Sep 1997 10:14:40 -0400
--
The point of dot23 was that historical change and space are related.
Existentialism, I'm thinking about Sartre, is, as he wrote in his book
"What Is Existentialism" that "existance preceeds essence." Existance
is not the choice, the choice is of the essence(I call essence
"function" as I read Aristotle's use of the word)(I don't want to get
into "what is a function?"right now although that is a fun question).
Existentialism is not a philosophy of free will, it is a philosophy of
human existance on the blood and guts level. The philosophy of choice
which you refer to is more Nietzsche. Nietzsche insulted morality and
advanced a will to power. How one reads Nietzsche opens question of if
he is horrible or wonderful, most think horrible these days. How one
reads Erasmus, I read him to be much like Kant, is also open to question
but not as much as Nietzsche. Would you say that Nietzsche was the first
postmodernist
or Heidegger, for example?
As unique as landing on the moon are many of the features of the human
condition today which have not happened in history. It's not all the
same. I warn that it could be like Rome in that information and
technology does not always drive politics, a view I share with Gilpin.
That we don't want it to be the same!
And I agree that if everyone could just read Erasmus, and wouldn't it be
great if we could ask him questions and pick him apart too? I think not.
Peace,
Hucklebee
-------------------------------------------------------------
a forum on spatial articulations, perspectives, and procedures
texts are the property of individual authors
for information, email majordomo@forum.documenta.de with
the following line in the message body: info blast
archive at http://www.documenta.de/english/blasta.htm
or http://www.documenta.de/deutsch/blasta.htm
documenta X Kassel and http://www.documenta.de 1997
-------------------------------------------------------------