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Loading... Echoes of No Thing: Thinking between Heidegger and Dōgenby Nico Jenkins
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Echoes of No Thing seeks to understand the space between thinking which Martin Heidegger and the 13th-century Zen patriarch Eihei D?gen explore in their writing and teachings. Heidegger most clearly attempts this in Contributions to Philosophy (of the Event) and D?gen in his Sh?b?genz?, a collection of fascicles which he compiled in his lifetime. Both thinkers draw us towards thinking, instead of merely defining systems of thought. Both Heidegger and D?gen imagine possibilities not apparent in the world we currently inhabit, but notably, find possible, through a refashioning of thinking as a soteriological reimagining that clears space for the presencing of an authentic experience in the space which emerges between certainties. Jenkins elucidates this soteriological reimagining through a close reading of both authors conceptions of time and space, and by developing a practice of listening that is attuned to the echoes that resonate between the two thinkers. While Heidegger often wrote about new beginnings (as well as about gathering oneself, preparing the site, clearings, and practicing) in preparation for the evental un-concealing of truth, nowhere is this as present as in the enigmatic, difficult, and in fact beautiful, Contributions. To call a text beautiful, especially a work of philosophy, risks committing an act of disingenuity, and yet Contributions, like Jacques Derridas Glas or Walter Benjamins unfinished Arcades Project, rises to this acclaim through its very resistance to a system, its refusal to be easily digested, or even understood. Contributions is unfinished, partial, even at times muttered; it is the beginning of a thinking which takes place on a path and as such cannot imagineor refuseits final destination. It invites us to take up towards, but not to insist on, its thinking; it is a turn away from the reason and logic of a technologized world and returns philosophyas a thinkingto a place of wonder and awe. D?gens Sh?bogenz?, from another culture and time entirely, is also a beautiful text, for similar reasons. The Sh?bogenz?, gathered first as a series of talks given by Eihei D?gen (and later composed as written texts) details the process of understanding which leads, for D?gen, to a position of pure seeing, or satori, and yet these talks are not simply rules for monks, nor merely imprecations and demands for a laity; rather, they open a beings thinking to the possibility of something purely other and work as a transition across worlds that also opens us to an other world. What both thinkers illustrate, as do the other thinkers drawn on in this projectmost notably, those philosophers associated with the Kyoto School, who were both intimately aware of D?gens work, and studied, or studied with, Heideggeris that world is not a fixed, stable entity; rather it is a fugal composition of possibility, of as yet untraversedand at times un-traversablespaces. Echoes of No Thing seeks to examine, within the lacunal eddies of be-comings arrival, that space between which both thinkers point towards as possible sites of new beginnings. No library descriptions found. |
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