Daimon Life: Heidegger and Life-Philosophy

368 Pages·1992·26.723 MB·English

by  David Farrell Krell

DAIMON LIFE
Studies in Continental Thought
John Sallis, general editor
Consulting Editors
Robert Bernasconi William L. McBride
Rudolf Bernet J. N. Mohanty
John D. Caputo Mary Rawlinson
David Carr Tom Rockmore
Edward S. Casey Calvin O. Schrag
Hubert L. Dreyfus Reiner Schurmann
Don Ihde Charles E. Scott
David Farrell Krell Thomas Sheehan
Lenore Langsdorf Robert Sokolowski
Alphonso Lingis Bruce W. Wilshire
David Wood
DAIMON LIFE
Heidegger and Life-Philosophy
DAVID FARRELL KRELL
Indiana University Press
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Krell, David Farrell.
Daimon life : Heidegger and life-philosophy / David Farrell Krell.
p. cm. — (Studies in continental thought)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-2.53-33147-1 (hard : alk. paper). — ISBN 0-253-20739-8
(pbk. : alk. paper)
i. Heidegger, Martin, 1889—1976. 2- Life—History—2Oth century.
3. Biology—Philosophy—History—2Oth century. I. Title.
II. Series.
B3279.H49K739 1992
193—dc2o 91-47493
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for jd for life
In the ignorance that implies impression that
knits knowledge that finds the nameform
that whets the wits that convey contacts that
sweeten sensation that drives desire that ad-
heres to attachment that dogs death that
bitches birth that entails the ensuance of
existentiality.
—James Joyce, Finnegans Wake
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CONTENTS
PREFACE xi
KEY TO PRINCIPAL WORKS CITED xiii
An Introduction to Za-ology 1
Greater Nearness, Abyss of Essence 5
ζα-, Zer-, Zu: Too Far Afield 13
The Unified Field of Φύσις; the Δαίμων 18
PART ONE
ADVANCED ZA-OLOGY
ONE. "I Call It Death-in-Life .. .": Reading Being
and Time 33
The Facts of Life 34
From Factical Life to Dasein 49
Some Body Is Alive 52.
TWO. ". . . Life-in-Death": Reading Being and Time (II) 64
Vanus hebesco 64
The Anxious Animal 67
Compulsion 70
The Spending Star 73
The Life-Philosophical Background: Dilthey,
Husserl, Scheler 78
Death, Demise, and Animal Perishing 84
THREE. Where Deathless Horses Weep: The 1929–1930
Biology Lectures 100
Horses? 101
Mourning Becomes Life 104
Sleep 106
World Poverty 112
The Being of Beeing 110
viii Contents
The Touchstone 126
Which Horses? I32
PART TWO
TOWARD A POLITICS OF LIFE
FOUR. "You in front of Me, I in front of You":
Heidegger in the University of Life 137
The Silence 138
The Noise 142
The University of Life 147
Addendum: On the Hard Geschlecht 157
FIVE. Shattering: Heidegger's Rhetoric in the 1930s 171
Scheitern 173
Erschütterung 179
Plenipotence: The Overpowering 181
Bestrewal 184
The Cleaving of (Finite) Beyng 189
A Difficult Birth 193
SIX. Paranoetic Thinking: "Life" in the 1936–1938
Contributions to Philosophy (Of Propriation) 197
The Fissure of Life 197
(De)gradations of Beyng 204
The Other Reverberation of Da-Sein 20
The Croaking of the Earth 211
PART THREE
VITAL SIGNS
SEVEN. Lifedeath: Heidegger, Nietzsche, Freud 217
The New Interpretation of Sensuousness 218
Chaos and Ash 222
"Nietzsche's Alleged Biologism" 227
Reading Chaos 230
Immanent Death, Imminent Death:
Beyond the PP 237
ζαθνητός 244
Contents ix
EIGHT. Something like Sexes, Something like Spirit:
Heidegger and Derrida 251
Four Generations of "Geschlecht" 252
One Generation of "Spirit" 265
Of Sisters 288
NINE. Final Signs of Life: Heidegger and Irigaray 292
A Sublimity Lived in Life Itself 295
Stirrings of Languorous Divinity 296
δαιμόνιος τόπος: The Daimonic Site 301
Sirensong 306
What Bestirs in the Showing of Saying? 311
Addendum: Cristy's Mortality 317
NOTES 320
INDEX 348