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- From: coonstot@quads.uchicago.edu (charles orville onstott)
- Subject: Martin Heidegger: Understanding and Meaning--a reading group
- Message-ID: <1992Nov10.223036.20658@midway.uchicago.edu>
- Summary: Reading group proposition
- Keywords: Heidegger, meaning, understanding, interpretation, sign
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- Organization: University of Chicago Computing Organizations
- Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 22:30:36 GMT
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- I am planning on doing a detailed re-reading of Division 1 Section V
- of Martin Heidegger's _Being and Time_. This chapter deals with
- the concept of "Being-In." I am most concerned, however, with the
- concepts of _meaning_, _understanding_, _interpretation_, and _sign_.
- Therefore, I plan to do a reading to recover these concepts and
- their associated ramifications. I am not closed to the possibility
- that this could turn out to be a criticism.
-
- If anyone is interested in this sort of a study, I propose an
- email reading group which I will proctor. The readings will
- be designed so that most of Section V will be covered by the end of
- November. Thus, the reading will be a little demanding. However,
- we will not be reading all of Section V, only those that are relevent
- to the purpose stated above.
-
- Whether or not you have read Heidegger, if you would be interested
- in learning Heidegger's criticism of hermeneutics and reference theory
- as presented in _Being and Time_, this reading would be very useful
- to you. This could give you an introduction to a great thinker on these
- matters--and one that presents several challenges to our current
- understanding of these given concepts. The application of his
- criticism ranges anywhere from Artificial Intelligence, the Human
- Sciences, to Hermenuetics.
-
- The format: Readings will be conducted on a weekly basis with
- a posting of commentary on the reading at the end of the week by
- all members. These will be forwarded to all members of the group.
- Commentary on the responses should be made at will and will be
- forwarded to all those involved. At the end of November, a commentary
- on the group's movement of thought on Heidegger will be made by myself
- and will be open to response through December. It may take us
- 1 week into December to finish the relevent sections before the
- final phenomenological study of the group's thought.
-
- If you are interested, please send me email and I will send
- out the first reading set. You will need to have your own
- copy of _Being and Time_(any library should have at least 1 copy)
- I will be using the english translation of this text; however,
- if you know German and have a copy of _Sein und Zeit_ your
- input would be valuable.
-
- Thank You,
-
- Charles O. Onstott, III
- University of Chicago Divinity School
- coonstot@midway.uchicago.edu
-
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- Charles O. Onstott, III (coonstot@midway.uchicago.edu)
- Graduate Student in Religion and the Human Sciences
- The University of Chicago Divinity School
- "For [the study of] history, too, has its fashions." (Anouilh)
-