{"id":1857,"date":"2020-06-14T06:54:52","date_gmt":"2020-06-14T06:54:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nancyannroth.com\/?p=1857"},"modified":"2020-06-14T08:11:51","modified_gmt":"2020-06-14T08:11:51","slug":"how-not-to-translate-heidegger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nancyannroth.com\/?p=1857","title":{"rendered":"How Not to Translate Heidegger"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cHow Not to Translate Heidegger\u201d is the name of a discussion on academia.edu.&nbsp;&nbsp;One segment, focussed on Heidegger\u2019s use of the word \u201cDasein,\u201d seems to have ended today.&nbsp;&nbsp;We\u2019ve all received a PDF summary.&nbsp;&nbsp;\u201cDasein\u201d is often translated \u201cbeing,\u201d but sometimes is left in German, too.&nbsp;&nbsp;In any case, it lies at the centre of the man\u2019s thinking, arguably at its core. I feel like a listener, rather than participant, because I haven\u2019t studied Heidegger, and it only dawned on me recently that academia is, in fact, a social medium.&nbsp;&nbsp;But I am impressed by at least two things: first, a social medium &#8212; nothing if not superficial &#8212; has been \u201crefunctioned\u201d into a vehicle for very complex thinking and very careful writing;&nbsp;&nbsp;second, the participants seems to be discussing an&nbsp;<em>aesthetic<\/em>&nbsp;question: there is no right, final, certainly no logical conclusion, but rather a cluster of perspectives that arise in the context of individual minds and memories. Flusser, as usual, said it a very long time ago.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cHow Not to Translate Heidegger\u201d is the name of a discussion on academia.edu.&nbsp;&nbsp;One segment, focussed on Heidegger\u2019s use of the word \u201cDasein,\u201d seems to have ended today.&nbsp;&nbsp;We\u2019ve all received a PDF summary.&nbsp;&nbsp;\u201cDasein\u201d is often&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1628,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"How Not to Translate Heidegger","bgseo_description":"This discussion on academia.edu makes use of a social medium in a exceptional way, namely to support a conversation in writing, in depth. The topic is Heidegger's use of the word Dasein.  ","bgseo_robots_index":"index","bgseo_robots_follow":"follow","_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[189,182],"tags":[337,336],"class_list":["post-1857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aesthetics","category-translation","tag-academic-edu","tag-heidegger"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nancyannroth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1857","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nancyannroth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nancyannroth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nancyannroth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nancyannroth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1857"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nancyannroth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1857\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1858,"href":"https:\/\/nancyannroth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1857\/revisions\/1858"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nancyannroth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nancyannroth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nancyannroth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nancyannroth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}