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Hmm, even after reading the lyrics I'm unsure what is the link between the song and the Heidegger quote. Care to shed some light for a slow student?
You mean, the link isn’t obvious? ;-) Actually if the link is “non-existent” Heidegger’s phenomenology would be deeply rooted in the idea that the negation here actually alludes to “something” and is indeed NOT nothing, as nothing to Heidegger is actually something. Get my drift?
But if nothing is actually “something” how would it reveal itself? How do we know what this really is? To him, the ontological status of the matter would be explained not through rigorous logical relations but rather, through our most deepest inarticulate moods in which we experience what is real to us.
Here, in Imogen’s song I felt as if the harmonious affects on her voice were meant to create various intricate inexplicable threads of feeling, leaving me as listener in a rather bizarre mood towards the end, and thus I related to the song as it left me experiencing not the concrete particulars of the words themselves, but a general feeling similar to that which Heidegger described in his writings.
Oh, and he was an EVIL EVIL man.
So yeah, I guess a short version of the explanation above might be that I just really liked the song so I decided to pin it with Heidegger. :)
"To him, the ontological status of the matter would be explained not through rigorous logical relations but rather, through our most deepest inarticulate moods in which we experience what is real to us."
Doesn't this run the risk of falling into a kind of solipsism? If we're depending more on our moods than on our logic for philosophical bases, we run the risk of mistaking our moods for reality.
Not that this necessarily has anything to do with the song, which on the lyrical level seems to be just another break-up song. Musically, though, I kind of see your point.
I don't think this was meant to be a "break-up" song, although her lyrics and mood do seem to shift about halfway through - the latter part which I think has the most possibly to be interpreted as a "break-up" song, but really it is not, as I don't think she intended it to be so (she writes about this on her personal blog) See here:
http://www.imogenheap.co.uk/iblog/iblog.htm
For a different interpretation of the song than as a mere break-up, see this video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CVdclsjKLpg
I also think Heidegger tried very hard to sidestep the problem of solipsism in what he took from Husserl (And sadly for Husserl, who's works have been condemned for this very reason). On the whole, I think H., although not an existentialist himself, was extrordinarily interested in providing some explanation for all ways in which we relate to being-in-the-world, including mood, or emotion. I'd have to say his philosophy draws me on this level
especially since I simply cannot in all ways at all times describe the way my mood changes, however real to me, especially when I think of the fact that there is a dire need for more emotions such as "care" or "compassion" in this world, although he never specifically addresses these states leaving us to wonder in abstration at the possibility.
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