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A breath of fresh air

Raymond Tallis

pp. 36-59

Abstrakt

I always believe myself when I say I"m going out for a walk to catch a breath of fresh air. Honestly, I do not intend that the walk should end where it usually ends up: in the kind of smoke-filled "fresh air" of which I am sure you will not approve. A few glasses of locally fermented wine, the very child of the native soil you called your own, sitting in the open air with a few peasant farmers outside in a simple hostelry with bare scrubbed wooden floors and scrubbed wooden tables — this is more to your taste. Not this post-ontologically overthematised techno-dwelling which stands as a monument to the "forgetfulness of being" and deracinated modern man (for whom beings have been displaced by their symbols and even the symbols of being have become so shop-worn that they no longer symbolise anything) that is my local.

Publication details

Published in:

Tallis Raymond (2002) A conversation with Martin Heidegger. Dordrecht, Springer.

Seiten: 36-59

DOI: 10.1057/9780230513938_3

Referenz:

Tallis Raymond (2002) A breath of fresh air, In: A conversation with Martin Heidegger, Dordrecht, Springer, 36–59.