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Dwelling and the sacralisation of the air: A note on acousmatic music
This paper adapts Martin Heideggerâs philosophy of âdwellingâ in order to effect a liaison between acousmatic music and ecological concern. I propose this as an alternative to both the propagandist use of music as a means of
protest and to using the science of ecology as a domain
that might furnish new compositional means. I advance the interpretation that acousmatic music âoccupies the airâ in ways that transform the meaning of that dimension. It allows the sky to be sky and the earth, earth. I use the precedent of bell ringing as an example of sonic activity that occupies the air in order to furthe
Passivity, being-with and being-there: care during birth
This paper examines how to best be with women during birth, based on a phenomenological description of the birth experience. The first part of the paper establishes birth as an uncanny experience, that is, an experience that is not only entirely unfamiliar, but even unimaginable. The way in which birth happens under unknowable circumstances (in terms of when, how, with whomâŠ) creates a set of anxieties on top of the fundamental anxiety that emerges from the existential paradox by which it does not seem possible for a body to give birth to another body. Would homebirth provide a remedy to the uncanniness? The result yielded by medical studies is confirmed by the phenomenological perspective taken here: homebirth might be reassuring for some, but not for everybody; choice of birth place is important. Once the birth process starts happening, another layer of strangeness is added: it turns out to be an experience of radical passivity and waiting, normally. The question thus becomes how to best care for somebody who is exposed to uncanniness, passivity, and waiting. Martin Heideggerâs concepts of care and discourse prove useful in examining how to facilitate rather than interrupt this process. It becomes necessary to think beyond verbal communication towards a wider concept of communication that involves silence and intercorporeality. Birth requires a special kind of being-with as being-there
Power and Freedom in Heideggerâs First Notebook
© 2019, © 2019 The British Society for Phenomenology. In the first notebook published in Ăberlegungen II-VI, which covers the years 1931 and 1932, Martin Heidegger uses a conception of power that is different to that found in his later work. Rather than power being the expression of the will to will and source of ruin for humanity, he says that humanity can only be saved from ruin if it can pave the way for an âempowerment of beingâ (ErmĂ€chtigung des Seins). This article will show that this early understanding of power is related to Heideggerâs conception of freedom as the essence of truth, developing his thinking on this topic from the period of 1927â1930. It will show that the terms âempowerment of beingâ and âletting beâ (Seinlassen) are akin, and that Heidegger uses the former to distance his thinking from potential misinterpretations of the essay âOn the Essence of Truthâ
Coloquio sobre DialĂ©ctica y Ăltima lecciĂłn (XII), no impartida, del semestre de verano de 1952.
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Approaching Heideggerâs History of Being Through the Black Notebooks
This essay explores the importance of the Black Notebooks (GA 94-99) beyond their contribution to Heideggerâs political biography. While attention has up to now focused almost exclusively on other matters, the Black Notebooks offer new perspectives on Heideggerâs writings from the 1930s and 1940s, and beyond. The essay argues, that any reading of Heideggerâs later work that tries to ignore the question for the History of Being, as it moves from a consideration of the Meaning of Being to the History of Being, is doomed to misunderstand the whole of Heideggerâs thought. Therefore, if one wants to mobilize Heideggerâs thinking as a response to the great questions of our age, which this essay identifies as those of Global Warming, Globalisation, Nihilism and the Nightmare of the Manipulated Human Being, then one needs to force the question of history as the central problem underlying any future potentiality of Heidegger's philosophical impact
Heidegger and Blumenberg on modernity
The debate surrounding the way in which Heidegger and Blumenberg understand the modern age is an opportunity to discuss two different approaches to history. On one hand, from Heidegger's perspective, history should be understood as starting from how Western thought related to Being, which, in metaphysical thinking, took the form of the forgetfulness of Being. Thus, the modern age represents the last stage in the process of forgetfulness of Being, which announces the moment of the rethinking of the relationship with Being by appealing to the authentic disclosure of Being. On the other hand, Blumenberg understands history as the result of the reoccupation process, which means replacing old theories with other new ones. Thus, to the historical approach it is not important to identify epochs as periods of time between two events, but to think about the discontinuities occurring throughout history. Starting from here, the modern age will be thought of not as an expression of the radicalization of the forgetfulness of Being, but as a response to the crises of medieval conceptions. For the same reason, the interpretation of history as a history of the forgetfulness of Being is considered by Blumenberg to subordinate history to an absolute principle, without taking into account its protagonists' needs and necessities
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