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Nachdasein | Notebook

Nachdasein | Notebook

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A metapolitical journal for quick and undeveloped notes.

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Fundamental Dialectic of Soul and Spirit

Is the soulfulness of the soul. Accepting that spirituality is not an empty concept, the soul in its soulfulness is fundamental to the spirit in its spirituality. The two have both been equated and differentiated but only one is more disclosive of ground in general and the ground of the human being specifically. If we take spirit to mean consciousness or reason or mental cognition, then the soul takes on the locus and inner core and essence of the human being in its activity. If reason and cogni...

philosophysocialism

The Courtroom Phenomenon and Analogy

It seems more and more fitting, relevant, and apt to undertake and adopt the role or analogy of the courtroom, specifically in the character of presentation of the situation, presentation of facts and evidence, and deliberation on a verdict: deliberation of a decision to decide what comes forth, what comes next, how to proceed, and the verdict of the decision. The character of deliberation on a decision deciding the outcome. But further, interpretation of the outcome: deciding its meaning. This ...

philosophyself-interpretation

Earth and Unearth

Rootedness-in-soil: not blood and soil, but lifeblood and earthblood. The earthly character of dwelling mortal existence. Yet, rootedness also means unrootedness: without absolute ground and justification. This groundlessness is originary guilt: null ground of a nullity. The earthly is the given. The unearthly is the debt. Here, components of what is owed and what is given. Debt and givenness. What is owed: given as already null and default. Debt | givenness. Not opposites but originary structur...

existentialismMartin Heidegger

Threefold Character of Labor: Civilization, Society, Culture

Let us meet labor from how it appears everyday. Everyday, we must head to the factory or other workplace. We meet our coworkers, managers, and bosses at the worksite on the days divided up that constitute the working days. These working days constitute the work week. The work week is established such that, for the majority of days, labor can produce the most for the most amount of time. For the most amount of time, labor is concerned with gathering, assorting, assembling, and managing: building—...

metapoliticslabor

Finding Your Voice, and Philosophy From the Outside

There is a need to develop my own voice and style of speaking and writing. I have gained much from reading Heidegger, and Nietzsche before him. It is hard to write in my own authentic way when, after reading Heidegger, I cannot help but to channel him and embody his literary style, mannerisms, and prose. The same can be said of Nietzsche: one cannot simply read him without his firebrand and conviction seeping into one's own words. These two thinkers paradigmatically, in their mastery of language...

metapoliticsacademia

Research Project and Reading List

I have started a research project which traces the origin and development of the State throughout Western philosophy and a transformation of the concept of the sacred from the cosmos and the gods to being located in the State, what is called civil religion. This research project will inform the development of a book I'm titling End Times, Eschatology, Prophecy. The basis and inspiration for all this is Martin Heidegger's Contributions to Philosophy (Of the Event) (German: Beiträge zur Philosophi...

metapoliticspolitics

Metapolitics and the Essence of the Political

We shall enter a discussion here about the political and philosophy, in the aim of what we call metapolitics, in order to understand the standing of politics and philosophy, and our standing within them. However, the words “political philosophy,” “politics,” “political,” and “political theory,” as well as the political as such, seem foreign to us, some affairs that go on in academia and only carry weight in higher education institutions and their dry technical textbooks. These words don’t have a...

philosophypolitics

Introduction to Nachdasein and Metapolitics

Our publication is called Nachdasein. A German neologism, it can be translated as afterlife. It is the German translation of posthuman. Nach means after. Dasein means being-there, existence, or presence. Dasein is the being who, in its being, has an understanding of being. This being who has an understanding of being is the human being. Nachdasein, then, seems to imply some sort of change or transformation in the being of Dasein, this being nach, some sort of after or later or post. Or better: p...

philosophypolitics

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