Philosophers who use him have to address the Heidegger-issue openly. He got caught up in the Nazi dream.

Again, the rural grassroots is a pawn in a big geopolitical brawl.

(My rural radicalism goes back to the #Wesleyanism of my Great Granddad, cobbler and preacher in Dufton, Westmorland.)

Heidegger was a signed up actual Nazi for a time so those who adopt him can hardly virtue signal. Celebrations of rural rootedness have served the far-right well over the decades. Part of my purpose is to show that the left has something to offer the rural grassroots too. 2/3

My work on #LocalKnowledge is to restore the respect that is due to those who work the land, who engage with all its myriad dimensions over the course of a given day, year, decade.

As I said to a school assembly once, farmers are professors of the countryside.
teesdalemercury.co.uk/country-life...

My role is to keep the dykes immaculate and #stormeowyn had taken a bite here and there.

Late #Heidegger looks at ways of 'being-in-the-world' that suffer not the alienations of the human/nature binary. For H, 'dwelling' on earth as a farmer embodies a grasp of nature that science has forgotten.2/?

Would pass it every day on the way to school. Such a level of ambition and vision to create on that scale.

The ancient, bearing, outlined by Ancient Greeks, understands the world as 'Physis',(foo-sis) a dynamic reality forever in flux with which we engage practically in experience. Knowledge for this bearing is more a dancing-along with Physis, in step with its processes.

The hill farmer farms Physis.

It is, up in the headwaters of the Water of Leith. There intriguing linear mounds that traverse the landscape here, marked on old maps as Old Fences. The bit you helped with was on one.

Heidegger declares that the type of knowing typical of hill farmers is primordial, that science is derivative of it. While science installs the subject-object binary to make its gains, the engaged knowledge of landwork defies that binary so as to cope with the dynamic reality of the everyday. 2/2

Thanks, I'll check that out.

Yes the 'merely anecdotal' dismissal is the thing needing undermined, philosophically.

If you're interested in the philosophy side of this, then @michelamassimi.bsky.social is red hot on it. I've only just come across her work this year and thoroughly recommend.