Sparks Will Fly by Vardoulakis Dimitris. Benjamin Andrew E

Author:Vardoulakis, Dimitris.,Benjamin, Andrew E.
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 2015-04-12T04:00:00+00:00

Heidegger’s Present

Although they may lack any predetermined and therefore pregiven presentation, aspects of this initial taking up of Benjamin’s work are, in the first place, intended to connect, reconnect, albeit on a general level, the projects of Heidegger and Benjamin. Connecting and reconnecting occur insofar as a constitutive part of each project is the relationship between showing and experience. Nonetheless, it goes without saying that the specific formulations of that relationship serve to open up an important difference between their projects, thus forcing a consideration of how that difference is itself to be thought. As difference eschews simple positing, its location is paramount. Here it turns on the present. More concretely, this particular point of departure is also intended, in the second place, to take up, again as an example, Heidegger’s Nietzsche, in particular the final part of the section entitled “European Nihilism,” a text in which “metaphysics,” the history of metaphysics, bears on by bearing the present.

Before pursuing Heidegger’s own formulation it should be noted that this presentation is itself intended to take up significant aspects within Benjamin’s own philosophical forewords—though, more emphatically, the relationship between the forewords and that which the forewords intend to have follow them. Because it can be taken to harbor the project itself, the foreword inevitably becomes more than a given site—even a preliminary site—within a textual topology. It is the latter component, the inherent complexity of the foreword, which, as has already been indicated, must form a fundamental part of any real philosophical engagement with it. Here the work of Benjamin and Heidegger is such that one tracks and tacks on the other. Neither their opposition nor their similarity can be taken as given. Sails will always have to be trimmed. The problem will always pertain to the nature of the calculation.

Heidegger’s final considerations of Nietzsche’s metaphysics could be said to incorporate “today’’s location.

“Today” [Heute], reckoned neither by the calendar, nor in terms of world-historical occurrences, is determined by the period in the history of metaphysics that is most our own: it is the metaphysical determination of historical mankind in the age of Nietzsche’s metaphysics. (N: 195/ GA 6.2: 254)

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