{"id":92,"date":"2015-09-04T17:02:44","date_gmt":"2015-09-05T00:02:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/alteritas\/?p=92"},"modified":"2022-08-02T10:57:22","modified_gmt":"2022-08-02T17:57:22","slug":"heidegger-is-the-dubbyk-of-twentieth-century-philosophy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/alteritas\/2015\/09\/04\/heidegger-is-the-dubbyk-of-twentieth-century-philosophy\/","title":{"rendered":"Heidegger Is the Dubbyk of Twentieth-Century Philosophy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">He and his vocabulary of charms haunt us, to the point that Dasein no longer needs the italics of a foreign word. The expurgation of Yiddish from German culture &#8212; admittedly a backhanded way to speak of the Holocaust &#8212; meant that a promising rival cognate of sorts was obliterated from wide currency. <i>Doikayt <\/i>could be translated as &#8220;here-and-now-ness\u201d (<i>Da-keit<\/i> in German, as opposed to<i> Da-sein<\/i>, \u201cbeing there\u201d). It was a guiding principle of<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bundism#Doikayt\">Bundism<\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;\">, the organized social democratic movement in eastern Europe whose focus was to seek alliances with other distinct and even sometimes hostile cultures, customs and religions in multicultural societies. After all, there is no escape possible from the principal contradiction, which is capitalism. So why go anywhere?\u00a0<i>Doikayt<\/i> lost out to the escapist Zionist ideal of \u201csomewhere-other-ness\u201d (but a somewhere &#8220;we&#8221; once were). A relique of twentieth-century political nomencature, <i>doikayt<\/i> survived for only a few more decades, confined to the Yiddish-speaking diaspora, a seed without issue. As for Dasein, it has, alas, prospered, a fetish to wield within the English-speaking critical-theoretical academy, snaring us in convoluted tangles of speculative meaning from which there is no exit.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">***<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\"> On the importance of Yiddish to high German literature, see <i>Deutsch-J\u00fcdischer Parnass: Literaturgeschichte eines Mythos<\/i>, Willi Jasper.\u00a0 As for the relation German once had with the Yiddish language: <i>Was ist Deutsch?<\/i>, Utz Maas. Finally, for bios and close-ups of the literary figures in the Canadian diaspora who wrote in Yiddish and Hebrew, there is <i>Cents ans de litt\u00e9rature yiddish et h\u00e9bra\u00efque au Canada<\/i>, Heim-Lieb Fuks et Pierre Anctil. In the mid-twentieth century, small cells of\u00a0Bundist affiliation influenced Canadian social democracy, in the big cities at least. The history of the Prairies was entirely different, but no less an extension of ideology forged in eastern Europe, not necessarily, it goes without saying, in the Pale.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">&#8212; H. H. N.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He and his vocabulary of charms haunt us, to the point that Dasein no longer needs the italics of a foreign word. The expurgation of Yiddish from German culture &#8212; admittedly a backhanded way to speak of the Holocaust &#8212; meant that a promising rival cognate of sorts was obliterated from wide currency. Doikayt could &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/alteritas\/2015\/09\/04\/heidegger-is-the-dubbyk-of-twentieth-century-philosophy\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Heidegger Is the Dubbyk of Twentieth-Century Philosophy&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[23,5,19,20,22,21,24],"class_list":["post-92","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-post","tag-canada","tag-capital","tag-germany","tag-heidegger","tag-social-democracy","tag-yiddish","tag-zionism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/alteritas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/alteritas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/alteritas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/alteritas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/alteritas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/alteritas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1117,"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/alteritas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92\/revisions\/1117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/alteritas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/alteritas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/alteritas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}