Wednesday, April 06, 2005

My first book

Or my dissertation: The becoming-tranparent of Opacity: The Hermeneutics of Obscurity and the Obscurity of Hermeneutics; Heidegger with Heraclitus. Probably a dissertation because my first book should be "The Reign of Apathy: The Power of Indifference". Perhaps a redundancy, but this topic would surely cover the span of ethics, the relationships of eros, politics, epistemology, Hermeneutics, and finally and perhaps most importantly, the end of philosophy, its very beginning. Yet, to return to the dissertation, I must say the "becoming-transparent" rather than "making-transparent", for it proves to be Opacity's self-uncovering, the way in which it dissolves its horsetails into clarity, that Heidegger discovers in Heraclitus' obscurity: "Listen not to me but to the logos", and the logos will begin to radiate an illuminescence through the dark one, of the discovery of the self-showing, the discovery of discovery, the essence of creativity. How to discover the obscure and the limits of a hermeneutics that assumes no limit shall be the theme: on the one hand I will push the bounds of the understanding through the possibility of interpretation, and on the other, confine the understanding through the impossibility of finding truth in excessively radical interpretations or relations due to the finitude of ambiguity, the limits of meaning in being. Multiple interpretations with varying degrees of accuracy due to varying degrees of immediacy or mediacy (which I would like to make the cut-off point, that is, anything mediated is not sufficient to be called an accurate interpretation), perhaps so, yet unlimited interpretations cannot be the case. We will further this later...

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