Wednesday 22 July 2015

Martin Heidegger and the Abandonment

The famous phrase of Martin Heidegger "only a God can save us" may be subject to different interpretations. According to Diego Fusaro it means that there is no room to change the world through praxis and it is a surrender to the fate of the technique without possibility of transformation. This also results in a de-empowerment of man who has no freedom of initiative as we are submitted to the history of Being.I would like to propose a different interpretation. It is true that Heidegger often says that man cannot save himself and he criticizes praxis conceived as the primacy of the humankind creating history. However he also says that Being is shown to man who must walk the path of abandonment and listening. Then there is room for human action but within the Being ( r with my own words within the mystery of the Whole). I do not interpret the abandonment as surrending to the fate of this mechanism that Heidegger calls Gestell. Abandonment is already a practice, a decision not to do but never independent of the Whole. Abandonment, returning to the earth, to nature, to our roots, economic slowdown, I think this is the only revolutionary path we can take.



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