Tuesday, November 13, 2007
(7:33 PM) | Amish Lovelock:
Yasushi Yamanouchi...
...who I posted on a while back now, is starting to say that Heidegger's kehre represents a move away from the early praise he placed upon kairos and is very similar to what a Nietzschian inspired Weber was looking for in his studies of Ancient economy and religion - i.e. not an attempt, like Junger's, to overcome the age of technology, but to find another time scheme, one of re-enchantment, the source of which is Ancient Greece. Yamanouchi does this specifically with reference to the work of Christian Graf Von Krockow - who is famous for grouping the early Heidegger with Schmitt and Junger as thinkers of the Entscheidung within the state of exception.As for myself, being all for fantasistic intellectual confrontations, I believe that I am the only person in the world right now who is reading this development as a direct challenge to the prevailing of the Agambenesque. Yamanouchi, an environmentalist sociologist, who is now 74, and far more interested in re-radicalizing social science as an academic discipline, probably couldn't care less.
Old's comment on the previous post mentioned a quote from Foucault along the lines that "if Nietzsche is so important to me its because he was essential for Weber..." This new comment from Yamanouchi's on the kehre made me think of Foucault again too. And not Agamben's Foucault...
So...
Is the age of the kairos over? Or is the Weberian-Heideggerian doomsday lament for the comtemporary tied inextricably to the instant that time ends rather than the time of the end?
The Hellenistic or the Hebraic?
Yes. That's what I want to know on this fine sunny afternoon.
