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Heidegger surfboards along on the electronic wave as
triumphantly as Descartes rode the mechanical wave.
* This kind of ballet of mind choreographed by Gutenberg by
means of the isolated visual sense, is about as philosophical as
Kant’s assumption of Euclidean space as a priori. But the
alphabet and kindred gimmicks have long served man as a
subliminal source of philosophical and religious assumptions.
Certainly Martin Heidegger would seem to be on better ground
in using the totality of language itself as philosophical datum.
For there, at least in nonliterate periods, will be the ratio among
all the senses. But this is not to recommend nonliteracy, any
more than the uses made of print are a judgment against
literacy. In fact, Heidegger seems to be quite unaware of the
role of electronic technology in promoting his own nonliterate