Heidegger bids us to enter "the clearing"--the place where we no longer impose upon the found world our own notions of how that world is "supposed" to "hang together" (to be). He acquired this ideal from his teacher Husserl and held on to it tenaciously throughout his life. He bids us to abandon the will-to-power over nature (i.e., our heavy reliance upon modern technology) and texts (i.e., interpretative schemes that amount to little more than special pleading for inherited dogmas). He admonishes us to have faith in Being itself (the world's own way of "worlding"). He asks us to see the world with renewed wonder. In the Heideggerian republic, poets rule and philosophers are banished. In the Heideggerian republic, phenomenology is king.
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