babyhueypnewton posted:http://www.amazon.com/Time-Ditch-American-Philosophy-McCarthy/dp/0810118092besides the general trajectory of analytic philosophy, when you look at CIA front organizations like the Congress for Cultural Freedom and the Ford Foundation you find some interesting names: Bertrand Russell, Hanna Arendt, Karl Jaspers, Benedetto Croce are ones that jumped out at me.
this sounds like a cool book and im gonna read it once i get thru the cultural cold war
babyhueypnewton posted:We had a good thread about it in the PSL a while ago.
wanna read that thread
glomper_stomper posted:there's a spot of piss stain on the copy of infinite jest i got from a used book store
EDIT: it's definitely cat piss
its actually published that way. post-modernism. full visceral experience.
aerdil posted:well im not sure how dfw did it, but when i'm an author i'm definitely pissing on every copy myself
its commonly known that dfw had a condition that caused him to cry cat pee
(i looked and as usual there are thousands of people with this username sigh)
littlegreenpills posted:NEETszhce has a boring obsession with what you shd do with your life and whether thigns are good or bad imo
same
but as long as its a double-post my understanding from reading maggotmaster dot com is that there are a lot of catholic stalinists on tumblr except they're basically fascists. i don't raeally understand because it is all unspeakably trivial and even my time is more valuable than that
thirdplace posted:my understanding from reading maggotmaster dot com is that there are a lot of catholic stalinists on tumblr except they're basically fascists.
yeah theres a lot of those... on tumblr... *tugs nervously at sweat-soaked necktie*
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roseweird posted:marimite posted:This whole recent turn to religion by left intellectuals
what whole recent turn?
Meillassoux, A.C. Grayling, Simon Critchley, Badiou, Zizek, Terry Eagleton, etc. It's not so bad when it's explicitly framed as a appropriation of Christianity along Hegelian lines, but when it's presented as something completely new it's particularly frustrating. But either way Nietzsche is better.
marimite posted:roseweird posted:marimite posted:This whole recent turn to religion by left intellectuals
what whole recent turn?
Meillassoux, A.C. Grayling, Simon Critchley, Badiou, Zizek, Terry Eagleton, etc. It's not so bad when it's explicitly framed as a appropriation of Christianity along Hegelian lines, but when it's presented as something completely new it's particularly frustrating. But either way Nietzsche is better.
yea man like authenticity bro.
glomper_stomper posted:there's a spot of piss stain on the copy of infinite jest i got from a used book store
i read this as piss stalin, and intend to continue doing so
deadken posted:nobody on the left has tried to create a religion of modernity since robespierre what are you talking about
your gay fucking jew grand ma
- Florence Nightengale....damn
roseweird posted:marimite why do you like nietzche so much
Well, there's all sorts of reasons. Almost every interesting innovation in 20th century philosophy is an appropriation of Nietzsche in some form, particularly those of Heidegger, Bataille, Deleuze, and Foucault. Nietzsche was the first great anti-humanist who saw the amalgamation of forces underlying humanity and saw the human as something to be overcome. His genealogy is among the best accounts of the ends of culture, religion, and philosophy that exists. He was the first to see the nihilism inherent in modernity and the development of culture in general, and also to see how this nihilism could be overcome. Really, it's pretty hard to overstate how important he is. If you would like to know more, I recommend Deleuze's Nietzsche & Philosophy.