Ahh today I got distracted and didnt follow my usual routine of reading everything first then replying. My apologies.
Heidegger was so incredibly painful for me to read, I remember reading a page and getting to the end only to realize I had absolutely no idea of what I just read! LOL I first read him in an existentialist seminar in college, Im afraid I didnt spend too much time on him. Its interesting to note, however, the roots of existentialism that you noted. Which also brings me back to Husserl, who is equally difficult to read, but for some reason I actually understood.
What was incredibly interesting about Husserl to me, aside from the methodology he espoused which doesnt interest me, was the influence that Descartes had upon the movement. Husserl took Descartes scepticism and the Cogito, removed the cop out to God, and took it to its logical conclusion, in the form of the Epoch. Funny thing you mention about Kant and Heidegger, since Kant is the inheritor of the Rationalist tradition of Descartes, which Nietzsche (although he would firmly deny it) is an inheritor of Kant, if only in reaction. Phenomenology and Existentialism have a fine pedigree if nothing else! :) |
