tradition of silence

“The abandonment at the supreme moment of the crucifixion, what an abyss of love on both sides!”

“Art is dead, not only because its critical transcendence is gone, but because reality itself, entirely impregnated by an aesthetic which is inseparable from its own structure, has been confused with its own image. Reality no longer has the time to take on the appearance of reality. It no longer even surpasses fiction: it captures every dream even before it takes on the appearance of a dream.”

3:10: Heidegger defines the Greek term aidos (shame) as “a fundamental word of authentic Greekness” (Martin Heidegger, Parmenides, trans. André Schuwer and Richard Rojcewicz). According to Heidegger, shame is something more than “a feeling that man has” (ibid.); instead, it is an emotive tonality that traverses and determines his whole Being…. “Being itself carries with itself shame, the shame of Being” (ibid.).