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In the ensuing discussion. it was acknowkdged that lllusic presents a challenge at least Ia the Kamian account ofiL if not imked to the boundaries of the agreeable and the beautiful. Professor PeterGilgen argued that in any case. there could be no imaginable Kalllian system in which this latterdistinction was not maintained. He urged that we not "blame the messenger" when Kant transmits to us the problem of the "confused pleasure" found in music. traceable to Leibniz or Baumgarten. He insisted that Kant would sooner admit the impossibility of aesthetic judgmcnts in general. than accede that it might happen along Tettlehautll's lines. But it seems that her suggcstions regarding beauty as a son of lost experience - suggestions neither fully developed in the papcr nor discussed on the day in question - could be fruitfully theorized in combination with the special tcmpom Ii tYofmusic. pcrhaps to establish a place for the latter within the Kantian aesthetics. Dal·idHolbr(){)k SWlll/Jf1 is (J grUilllwr slIIdelll in Ill.1rativc histol)'ofcinema in the two Germanies and in post WeI/de' Germany, Jill Gi/lr.fpie i.f a grmiliwe .ul«kllt ill the De· fJl.Jrlmenl ofGer/mlll Simlif'.f. •••••••• (lJeidegger· el)lIIlnul'llfrOIl/ lHlgl' I} consequen!ial divide of the Sralillgradwill/l'I". While the technologically superior German Anny was being smashed by the Red Anny and the cold Russian wimer, Martin Heidc£l!cr spent the winter semester 1942/~J delivering a !cclure series on the philosophy of ParmenidesofElea. He infonned his studelllS that "Technology is our Histol)'" - "Die Techllik iSl unsere Geschichte'" Waile stressed that lhe phrase ought to be unpacked with the utmost care "nd that certain problems resist historical redue· tion and arc confounded by the alleged ultimate un-tr"nslatabilily of Greek and Gemlan tcnllS. What did Heideggermean by Tl'c1l11ik? What is the meaning of "is" and whose hislal)' is he refening to in the phrase "our histol)'''? And what exactly docs Ge,fd,il'IIIe' signify, nOl only to Heidegger. hut to liS here and now? The first panel. "Reading. Heidegger Questioning Technology" began with William HrackclI (Philosophy). He introduced his presentation as a "pcdestrian version" of Heideggcr' s strategy for escaping cnframing (Geslefl) IlmJIIgh enfrarning itself. which he interprds as a PaSt' 1./ German Culillre Nf'lL·.~
set of disabling prejudices, Bracken proceeded to queslion a common reading of "On the Question Concerning Technology" which he traced back to Hubert Dreyfus· contribution in thc Camhrillge Compa/ljo/l to Hridegger. Dreyfus contends that Heidegger's notion of technology requires the abandonment ofspecific hUlllanistic Enlight
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