There is no doubt that a person, even if he is a migrant worker, has a spiritual pursuit to make his heart stronger.
Text | Hexi
Gu Yu's laboratory article "A migrant worker thinks that Heidegger is a normal thing" has been screened in the circle of friends, and it has also caused some controversy, and a migrant worker thinks about whether Heidegger is a normal thing?
It can be said that this incident is both normal and abnormal.
Normal, that is, there are 1.4 billion Chinese, and it is not normal for a migrant worker to like and think and study Heidegger? Not only may migrant workers like Heidegger, square dancing aunts may also be thinking about the relationship between surrealism and a fish in the family, and the uncle who collects waste may also export chapters like "wandering master" Shen Wei to discuss "Zuo Zhuan" and "Shang Shu" with you.
"Wandering Master" Shen Wei
Say not normal. Some netizens said it very well, "A migrant worker thinking about Heidegger is a normal thing" The popularity of this article just shows that it is an abnormal thing for a migrant worker to think about Heidegger. Normal does not have to make a fuss, and will not brush the screen, you say?
The communication effect obtained by this article is actually the same as the popularity of Yu Xiuhua, the "cerebral palsy poet" at that time, and the logic of many Internet celebrities on Douyin who rely on contrast to become popular.
Can a farmer with cerebral palsy write poetry? A middle-aged uncle with a bad look and a beard is amazing when he opens his mouth, and a takeaway courier can play a good piano, this is the contrast, this is the contrast, it will surprise you, it will make you can't help but click to see, and sigh: I am not even as good as a courier! Or: couriers can play the piano, why can't I pursue my dreams?
The takeaway courier plays the piano
As far as the problem of Chen Zhi, a migrant worker, is concerned, what he is stinging this time is the nerves of intellectuals. Heidegger's philosophy is known for its obscurity, but what is his brick-thick book Of Being and Time about? Few university professors can explain it in a simple and concise way. Now that a young migrant worker has translated "Introduction to Heidegger", how do you judge him?
I'll give you an example of the phrase "born to die" in rotten streets today, which comes from Heidegger's Being and Time. And the original meaning of this word is that the existence of man is the process of death, that is, beauvoir said that "all people are going to die", and there is no meaning at all that many people who put this word on their lips think that they have the courage to face death. How many people know what "living to die" means?
Moreover, the most important master of existentialism after Heidegger was Sartre, whose book Of Existence and Nothingness is an existentialist Bible that is equally thick as a brick and is known for its obscurity.
Sartre did not deny that he was influenced by Heidegger, but Heidegger believed that Sartre had misread his work, and Heidegger later spoke of this:
Sartre's statement of the main proposition of the primacy of "exisentia" over "essentia" also defends the name "existentialism" as a title appropriate to such philosophy. However, the main proposition of "existentialism" has nothing in common with the one in Existence and Time; in Existence and Time there is no proposition in Existence and Time that is not yet able to express a proposition about the relation between "essence" and "existence", which can be left aside, because there is still some kind of tentative precursory (ein Vorläufiges / preparing something precursory).
— Heidegger, Letters on Humanitarianism
You see, Heidegger's evaluation of Sartre, the second-ranked master of the existentialist camp, is actually Sartre's "the main proposition of 'existentialism' has nothing in common with the proposition in Existence and Time"!
Not biased, but "nothing in common"! It's a complete denial of Sartre. Sartre didn't even read Heidegger, do you think you understood Heidegger? At present, so many elite professors in academia are studying Heidegger, Sartre and existentialism, and none of them can make you feel clear, accurate and fluent, and the translation of Heidegger's "Existence and Time" and Sartre's "Existence and Nothingness". Don't say that these two well-known books of heaven are mostly tomes, that is, Camus's pamphlet "The Myth of Sisyphus", Wenqing is almost a hand, but there are few that can really understand, if you have read it, do you feel confused after reading it, as if you understand it or not? So what's the problem?
Is it possible that the problem lies with these existential masters themselves? You know, when Camus wrote the Myth of Sisyphus in 1942, he was only 29 years old, two years younger than the 31-year-old migrant worker Chen Zhi! Of course, Camus may have been gifted, and I just said: Possibly.
And Heidegger's position in the philosophical world is so high, if this migrant worker is not thinking about Heidegger, but Sartre, Camus, or just novels and short videos, then will this event still attract so much attention?
I think that perhaps the dissemination effect and attention of the article will be greatly reduced, because the contrast between migrant workers and Heidegger is far greater than a migrant worker reading a title like Ma Yuan's novel. A migrant worker is thinking about Heidegger, there are heroes from the grassroots, and there is life that is meticulous but also looks for poetic directions.
Zhou Xingchi said it well: If you don't have a dream, what is the difference between you and salted fish? There is no doubt that a person, even if he is a migrant worker, has a spiritual pursuit to make his heart stronger.
Migrant worker Chen Zhi pursues his philosophical ideals in a difficult environment, of course, we can not easily deny him, if you can, we should give him more help, so that he can have more achievements in philosophical research and truly play his strengths. Such young people with ideological pursuits, not to mention among migrant workers, even among young students, are becoming less and less, after all, philosophy is not a very profitable business like anchors with goods.
On the other hand, we should also look at this incident rationally, a migrant worker thinking about Heidegger is thinking, a migrant worker thinking about Zhou Xingchi is not thinking? Why favour one over the other? Is there still a difference between thinking and thinking? The hero mo asked the source, but the hero also asked him whether he was studying Heidegger or Zhou Xingchi. What's more, from "wandering masters" to various Internet celebrities, there seem to be too many people who have become popular by contrast in these years.
Of course, if he doesn't have any literary or artistic thinking, but as a good father, a good husband and a good son, he runs and struggles in the wind and rain every day, which is also a choice in life, which is equally touching. After all, the helplessness and compromise in life are far more than the achievement of ideals. It's just that such a life is too ordinary, ordinary enough to be the reason for a report.
But ordinary, there is also ordinary greatness, just like your ordinary father and mother, just like countless ordinary you and me on the land of China.
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