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Showing posts with label Fate Destiny. Show all posts

Thursday, June 2, 2011

The Flying Dutchman

Source.

On 11 July 1881 the Bacchante was off Cape Town when a strange sail was spotted. Prince George, the future King George V later wrote this in his diary:

"At 4 a.m. the Flying Dutchman crossed our bows. A strange red light as of a phantom ship all aglow, in the midst of which light the masts, spars and sails of a brig 200 yards distant stood out in strong relief as she came up. The lookout man on the forecastle reported her as close to the port bow, where also the officer of the watch from the bridge clearly saw her... Thirteen persons altogether saw her.[7] The Tourmaline and Cleopatra, who were sailing on our starboard bow, flashed to ask whether we had seen the strange red light... At 10.45 A.M. the ordinary seaman who had this morning reported the Flying Dutchman fell from the foretopmast crosstrees on to the topgallant forecastle and was smashed to atoms."


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Marryat, Frederick - The Phantom Ship
Fitzball, Edward - The Flying Dutchman; or the Phantom Ship: a Nautical Drama, in three acts (1826)
Wagner - The Flying Dutchman (in English)

Wikipedia Entry

Thursday, May 26, 2011

Nietzsche's Thus Spake Zarathustra, Beyond Good and Evil and Antichrist

Nietzsche shares the position with Marx in being the most (subsequently) pervasive and persuasive of 19th Century agitators calling for a "New Man," with attendant prescriptions, programs and forecasts of upheaval. A theme which energizes the early twentieth century, and also likely fuels an intellectual and creative retreat by century end.

The Antichrist
Thus Spake Zarathustra
Beyond Good and Evil

Monday, January 24, 2011

Illustrations to Dante's "Divine Comedy" by William Blake

"The Wood of the Self-Murderers: The Harpies and the Suicides"



Wednesday, September 15, 2010

Holderlin in Translation Online


 A selection, translated, by David Constantine.

Heidegger Online (in English Translation)


"Heraclitus" [1966-1967] - Martin Heidegger
Heidegger's seminar on Heraclitus.

"Letter on "Humanism" [1949] - Martin Heidegger
Heidegger's famous essay in English translation.

"Nietzsche's Word, "God is Dead." - Martin Heidegger
Complete text of Martin Heidegger's essay on Nietzsche's announcement that "God is dead" (cf. The Gay Science).

"Parmenides" [1942-1943] - Martin Heidegger
Heidegger's course on Parmenides.

"Who is Nietzsche's Zarathustra?" - Martin Heidegger

Natural Science and Metaphysics - Martin Heidegger
An essay by Martin Heidegger on the dispositions underlying metaphysics (Aristotle), and modern natural science (Newton, Descartes).
"Nietzsche's Word: GOD IS DEAD" [Holzwege] - Martin Heidegger
A second translation of this important work.

The Self Assertion of the German University 1933 - Martin Heidegger
Martin Heidegger's [in]famous "Rectoratsrede" or "Rector's inaugural address", given in 1933. A careful reading of this speech is essential for anyone trying to understand the early philosophy of Heidegger, and why he eventually withdrew from politics.

Davos 1929, Confrontation with Cassirer re Kant - Martin Heidegger, Ernst Cassirer
A written transcript of the the Heidegger-Cassirer debate in Davos, Switzerland in 1929 regarding the question of Kant and "neo-Kantianism."

Der Spiegel Interview 1966 (English translation): - Martin Heidegger (interview 1966)
This is the famous "Der Spiegel Interview" from 1966 in which Heidegger discusses the current crisis of nihilism and his rejection of some kind of fusion of East and West. A return to, and a resuscitation of the Western Tradition is here anticipated as essential. Heidegger also here gives some further information which may help one to think about his motives in 1933 and thereafter.

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