Will I ever understand Heidegger? I’m on my third reading of Being and Time, and it’s still a “no”. He’s more understandable than people think, but even with crib notes and the Herbert Dreyfus lectures (didn’t finish) it’s still a mystery.
This is similar to Ted Hughes when he says life is about becoming constrained and the having everything open up (break up, job crisis, death)...before it closes down again. I think for Heidegger these moments of opening are confrontations with death, not simply moments of nausea.
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The problem is that, if you absorb this much Heidegger, you start to sound ridiculous. I am keeping my death before...being-before Being-in-death (my invented Heidegger jargon). “That’s great, Tom. What do you want for breakfast?”
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