EXCHANGES

(New, May, 2000) Recently, I have found that one of the most pleasant
ways of avoiding the unpleasantness that sometimes attaches itself to the writing
of formal papers and essays is to insinuate some things I've been wanting to say
into conversations on the Heidegger List or the Postmodern Jewish Studies
List called "Textual Reasoning." The context of the conversations gives the
sayings added dimensions of possible meaning as I try to align my sayings
with a direction implied by what has already been said.  As I looked through my "posts" over a given period of time, I found (not surprisingly) that there was an interesting degree of thematic coherence and even development.  So I gave the posts a more general thematic title, cleaned them up a bit, and now list them below for easy
"click and peruse."
(N.B. I apologize to my colleagues on both lists whose remarks are reduced to
the "carroted"[<] interpolations which the conventions of e-mail conversation provide.
More often than not, the complete text of their remarks evince greater erudition and insight than my own. I commend the reader to read the exchanges in full in the archives of the lists(gopher://lists.village.virginia.edu/11/pubs/listservs/spoons/heidegger.archive; the TR Archive is still in the making).  I have given the general range of dates below for convenient reference.

                1. ETHICS AND HERMENEUTICS IN THE  EARLY HEIDEGGER
                    (April, 2000)  Does Heidegger have an "ethics"?  Might that
                    ethics be found in the manner of his reading and teaching
                    those foundational philosophical texts which are sacred
                    to him, especially Aristotle and the Presocratics?

            2.  HEIDEGGER'S "ROMANTIC" RHETORIC (Late April, 2000)