Abstract
Perhaps, what it means to be contemporary in thought is to find oneself in a situation of questioning that remains at once abstract and concrete. Such a place of questioning would inhabit the world while simultaneously releasing us from the binding and blindness of the world in drawing us away from its immediate hold, thus coming to place the world into the tighter grips of its questioning. To be contemporary, in this regard, would mean to be disjointed, placed athwart in a space that nonetheless still retained a footing in and orientation towards the world. Such a space of questioning is the place of thinking itself. In its inaugural figuration under the name of Socrates, thinking takes the form of an interpolation that speaks and enters the world from nowhere, as with the opening question of the dialogue Protagoras. “From where, Socrates, have you just arrived?” The voice of thinking is without place, atopos – strangely issued from nowhere, and in this sense, original without any manifest origins. Beginning with these reflections, the aim of this paper is to explore Reiner Schürmann’s iconoclastic engagement with Heidegger’s thinking.
I was far away from my origins for so long.
that the one and sole origin seems very close.
Reiner Schürmann.
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Notes
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“Reiner Schürmann’s Report of his Visit to Martin Heidegger,” translated and edited by P. Adler, in: Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal, (1997).
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Welte gave the funeral oration at Heidegger’s burial.
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Ingrid Schlüsser, “Nachwort der Herausgeberin,” Martin Heidegger, Feldweg-Gespräche (1944/1945), GA 77 (Frankfurt: Vittorio Klostermann, 1997).
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For a detailed analysis of Heidegger’s concept of Gelassenheit throughout his writings, see Brett Davis, Heidegger and the Will: On the Way to Gelassenheit, (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 2008).
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For an over-view and assessment of the reception and influence of Meister Eckhart’s thinking in the twentieth-century, with illuminating discussions of Heidegger and post-modern interpretations, see Dermot Moran, “Meister Eckhart in 20th-Century Philosophy,” in: A Companion to Meister Eckhart, ed. J. Hackett, (Leiden: Brill Publishers, 2013): 699–710.
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For an insightful treatment of Schürmann’s interpretation of Meister Eckhart, the contours of which I adopt here, see Robert Bernasconi, “Eckhart’s Anachorism,” in: Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal, (1997): 81–90.
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Reiner Schürmann, Wandering Joy. Meister Eckhart’s Mystical Philosophy, (Great Barrington: Lindisfarne Books, 2001), pp. 53–95.
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Reiner Schürmann, “The Loss of the Origin in Soto Zen and in Meister Eckhart,” in: The Thomist, 42 (1978), p. 283.
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For a thoughtful recollection of Schürmann as a teacher, see Christopher Long, “Care of Death: On the Teaching of Reiner Schürmann,” DOI: 10.5840/philtoday201713141
Online First: January 31, 2017 (accessed September 18, 2018).
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Hans-Georg Gadamer, “Review of Heidegger on Being and Acting,” in: Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal, (1988): 155–158.
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Reiner Schürmann, Heidegger on Being and Acting: From Principles to Anarchy, (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1987), p. 2.
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For an instructive comparison of deconstruction in Schürmann and Derrida, see Sergio Villalobos-Ruminott, “Anarchy as the Closure of Metaphysics: Historicity and Deconstruction in the Work of Reiner Schürmann,” Politica Comun, Volume 11 (2017): https://doi.org/10.3998/pc.12322227.0011.004 (accessed September 18, 2018).
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Heidegger, p. 3.
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Vittorio Hösle, “The Intellectual Background of Reiner Schürmann’s Heidegger Interpretation,” in: Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal, (1997): 263–285; p. 275.
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Ibid., p. 176.
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Reiner Schürmann, Heidegger on Being and Acting: From Principles to Anarchy, (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1987), p. 2.
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Reiner Schürmann, Origins, trans. E. Preston (Berlin: Diaphanes Press, 2016), p. 241.
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Ibid., p. 25.
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Ibid., p. 270.
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Heidegger, p. 237.
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Heidegger, p. 11.
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For a bibliography of Schürmann’s writings, published and unpublished, https://library.newschool.edu/archives/findingaids/NS000601.html#ref23
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Heidegger, p. 241.
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Heidegger, p. 236.
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Origins, p. 25.
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de Warren, N. (2022). Anarchy in the Name of Heidegger. In: Rogove, J., D’Oriano, P. (eds) Heidegger and his Anglo-American Reception. Contributions to Phenomenology, vol 119. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-05817-2_5
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