{"id":13220,"date":"2025-09-06T15:31:36","date_gmt":"2025-09-06T22:31:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/?p=13220"},"modified":"2025-09-07T08:31:56","modified_gmt":"2025-09-07T15:31:56","slug":"heidegger-carnap-and-das-nichts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2025\/09\/06\/heidegger-carnap-and-das-nichts\/","title":{"rendered":"Heidegger, Carnap, and Das Nichts<\/i>"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Substack<\/em> entry<\/a> wherein I diagnose Rudolf Carnap’s Heidegger Derangement Syndrome. Rudi was down with a very bad case of it. Thanks to him it spread to a crapload of analytic bigots. Excerpt:<\/span><\/p>\n

One of the reasons I gave my weblog the title\u00a0Maverick Philosopher<\/em>\u00a0is because I align neither with the analytic nor with the Continental camp. Study everything, I say, and drink from every stream. \u201cNothing human is foreign to me.\u201d (Terence)<\/p>\n

Reverting to the camp metaphor, when did the camps become two? In dead earnest this occurred when Heidegger burst onto the scene in 1927 with\u00a0Being and Time<\/em>. I agree with Peter Simons: “Probably no individual was more responsible for the schism in philosophy than Heidegger.” (Quoted in Overgaard, et al.,\u00a0An Introduction to Metaphilosophy<\/em>, Cambridge UP, 2013, 110.) It is not as if Heidegger set out to split the mainstream whose headwaters were in Franz Brentano into two tributaries; it is just that he started publishing things that the analytic types, who had some sympathy for Heidegger’s main teacher Husserl, could not relate to at all.<\/p>\n

If I were were to select two writings that best epitomize the depth of the Continental-analytic clash near the time of its outbreak, they would be Heidegger’s 1929\u00a0What is Metaphysics?<\/em>\u00a0and Carnap’s 1932 response, “On the Overcoming of Metaphysics Through the Logical Analysis of Language.” (In fairness to Carnap, let us note that his\u00a0Erkenntnis<\/em>\u00a0piece is more than a response to Heidegger inasmuch as it calls into question the meaningfulness of all metaphysics.)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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A Substack entry wherein I diagnose Rudolf Carnap’s Heidegger Derangement Syndrome. Rudi was down with a very bad case of it. Thanks to him it spread to a crapload of analytic bigots. Excerpt: One of the reasons I gave my weblog the title\u00a0Maverick Philosopher\u00a0is because I align neither with the analytic nor with the Continental … Continue reading “Heidegger, Carnap, and Das Nichts<\/i>“<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[689,142,283,454,218],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-carnap","category-existence","category-heidegger","category-history-of-philosophy","category-nothingness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13220"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13220\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13230,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13220\/revisions\/13230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}