{"id":7739,"date":"2014-08-27T07:07:27","date_gmt":"2014-08-27T07:07:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2014\/08\/27\/mrs-hopewell-meets-professor-heidegger\/"},"modified":"2014-08-27T07:07:27","modified_gmt":"2014-08-27T07:07:27","slug":"mrs-hopewell-meets-professor-heidegger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2014\/08\/27\/mrs-hopewell-meets-professor-heidegger\/","title":{"rendered":"Mrs. Hopewell Meets Professor Heidegger"},"content":{"rendered":"

Flannery O'Connor, "Good Country People," in A Good Man is Hard to Find and Other Stories<\/em>, Harcourt, 1955, p. 185:<\/span><\/p>\n

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One day Mrs. Hopewell had picked up one of the books the girl had just put down and opening it at random, she read, "Science, on the other hand, has to assert its soberness and seriousness afresh and declare that it is concerned solely with what-is.  Nothing — how can that be anything but a horror and a phantasm?  If science is right, then one thing stands firm: science wishes to know nothing of nothing. Such is after all the strictly scientific approach to Nothing.  We know it by wishing to know nothing of Nothing." These words had been underlined with a blue pencil and they worked on Mrs. Hopewell like some evil incantation in gibberish.  She shut the book quickly and went out of the room as if she were having a chill.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

It is for me to know and you to guess:  from which famous\/notorious essay of Heidegger is Miss O'Connor quoting?<\/span><\/p>\n

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Flannery O'Connor, "Good Country People," in A Good Man is Hard to Find and Other Stories, Harcourt, 1955, p. 185: One day Mrs. Hopewell had picked up one of the books the girl had just put down and opening it at random, she read, "Science, on the other hand, has to assert its soberness and … Continue reading “Mrs. Hopewell Meets Professor Heidegger”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[283,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-heidegger","category-literary-matters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7739","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=7739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7739\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}