Friday, July 27, 2007

"Idle-talk" and information

The more profound way to interpret Heidegger's term "idle-talk" that is found throughout Being and Time is as information, the concept that is really signified by "standing-reserve" in Heidegger's late work and especially in "The Question Concerning Technology." Reading this early term of Heidegger into the later and especially the later into the former would lend a greater understanding of exactly what he is getting at. Also handy for this would be his elaboration of the Greek concept doxa in his Introduction to Metaphysics.

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