Saturday, May 29, 2010

facing pages as responses: a Curl e-book alternative for Le Messager européen

In 1987 POL published a book in which the first chapter has many blank pages.

This is not due to illustrations, litigation or censorship: the text on the left-hand (even-numbered) pages from 16 through 70 (with the interesting exceptions of pages 15 and 72) are those of Heidegger as "interviewed" by Der Spiegel.

The right-hand pages (odd-numbered) 17 through 71 (and including 72), are the responses by Jan Patočka.

I will try to present this in a Curl format if I am able to obtain permission.

The book, Le Messager européen, is prefaced by Alain Finkielkraut.

My Curl e-book version would have alternative or even multiple responses - perhaps keyed to topics.

Pages which immediately suggest themselves for the right-pages are those of Hugo Ott or Victor Farias.

But there are also the pages of dissent: those of the Heideggerian faithful, the inspired, the devoted and the merely sympathetic.

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