At Home with Heidegger: Dr. Steven Taubeneck LIVE!

Hosted by David S.

Scott & Dave’s High Ontology

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Prepare for a romantic pilgrimage into Heideggerland!

This Thursday, JUNE 2, join us as we ascend the Black Forest Mountains and penetrate its Holy of Holies—Heidegger’s cabin (which you can view here via satellite).

Our Schwarzwaldreise will be guided by Heidegger scholar Dr. Steven Taubeneck, whose poetico-phenomenological incantations will give us the wherewithal to banish das Man, purify our faculties of unconcealment, and consecrate ourselves to the Great Work of authentic becoming. Once transformed, we will attempt to evoke the ghost of Heidegger to visible appearance, and compel it to answer our most urgent questions.

Taubeneck will begin with an overview of Heidegger’s life, works, and significance. He will start with his biography, move to his sources (Parmenides to Husserl), discuss the trajectory of his works (from Being and Time to Time and Being), and end with a look at his “children”—Kellner marked out Arendt, Löwith, Jonas and Marcuse; Taubeneck will add Sartre, Beauvoir, Merleau-Ponty, Gadamer, Derrida, and Rorty.

As always, important questions can be sent to Scott in advance and he’ll pass them along to our guest expert so he can properly reflect on them before the event. Deadline for questions is Wednesday afternoon.

About our guest expert: Steven Taubeneck has worked in education since 1981, and has come to realize that genuine learning is normally impossible. What is learning in the first place, and how does it happen? What is teaching, and how is it related to learning? The primary figures he interrogates to answer such questions? Kafka, Nietzsche, Hegel, Heidegger, Gadamer, Derrida, Rorty and Judith Butler. Such writers, Taubeneck says, encourage him to mine the traces of the literary and political discourses that define us. A professor of German and Philosophy at UBC, Taubeneck has been wrestling with the core texts of 20-cent. phenomenology and existentialism for over 30 years, and has worked and collaborated with both Derrida and Rorty.

METHOD

Homework is a bit different this time: