Being is nothing.
“Nothing,” wrote Martin Heidegger,
“not merely provides the conceptual opposite of what-is but is also an original part of essence.”
That may not make sense logically, but:
“Authentic speaking about nothing always remains extraordinary. It cannot be vulgarized. It dissolves if it is placed in the cheap acid of merely logical intelligence.”
For more on the meaning of these quotations and Heidegger’s contributions to postmodernism, see my Explaining Postmodernism: Skepticism from Rousseau to Foucault.
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