In PPM5 I explore further how Heidegger's question, "How is it with the Nothing?" is an exemplar of 'evocative speech,' or the form of language that propels the relation between Being and learning. Further exploration takes me into the processural character of Being's unfolding. I write "the 'new' task of philosophy, if it is to overcome its tradition, metaphysics, is to think this process." I conclude with a set of questions about the evocative question 'How is it with the Nothing?' These questions, which are intended to motivate the next meditation, include: What does this question intended/attempt to 'say'?
February 13, 2014 was the 10th anniversary of the original experiment that produced 363 phenomenological mediations, published as 'Being and Learning' (Brill: 2012). Each day between Feb 2014-15, I returned to the original meditations, and my commentary is documented here. And then, again, on February 15, 2024, on the 20th anniversary of the first days of the original experiment, I revisit and comment on a daily basis, once again.
Picking up on my response to the previous day's meditation, which is inspired by my recent engagement with Arendt, the problem posed by Heidegger *after* metaphysics ["how is with the Nothing?"] is perhaps the most poignant way of posing the situation of education (being and learning) in the wake of the rupture with 'tradition,' which Arendt identifies as defining the 'crisis' in education.
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