Showing posts with label Martin Heidegger. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Martin Heidegger. Show all posts

Thursday, May 1, 2014

A Caricature


A Clerihew of the Disappointed Philosphers

MARTIN HEIDEGGER

Holding his unfinished Sein und Zeit,
Said Arendt, "Seems to me... a little light."
"Once again, you thought it would be bigger!"
Cried in anguish, the blushing Heidigger.

Monday, December 6, 2010

Daily Dose

From A Christmas Carol & Other Christmas Books, by Charles Dickens, Edited with an Introduction and Notes by Robert Douglas-Fairhurst

THE CAROL

"Reproduced so often, and in so many different forms, it has become as much a part of Christmas as mince pies or turkey, with the key difference that, as Martin Heidegger argued was true of all classic works, it has never been 'used up.'"

From the Introduction