Rolling Philosophy

lol jk

lithuanian jew, student of husserl (and heidegger i believe?), key concepts 'the other' 'ethics as first philosophy' 'face-to-face' 'alterity'

derrida has two long essays about him--'violence and metaphysics' and a published (extended?) version of the eulogy he gave at levinas funeral

the key to derrida fyi is smokin pot and reading poetry

I don't think levinas was a student of heidegger (maybe yr thinkin' of marcuse?), but yeah, he was (I believe) the first french translator of husserl, and in general had a big influence on the french reception of phenomenology

xpost halfway there; which poetry should I be readin'?

Rilke, maybe?

well holderlin obv

rimbaud dude

bob dylan

mallarme

shel silverstein

paul celan

nicki minaj

paul celan for sure.

I heard a lecture on Derrida + Celan last weekend.

celan was the poet derrida wrote most about from what i can tell.

this (therefore) will not have been a thread

the best introduction to Derrida is the documentary Derrida — his waffle-preparing technique is the key to his entire philosophy project

or, "philosophical" project

i am gonna look into these foucault lectures because they sound right up my alley but that means i will probably not read them for another 4 years because that's what i do :(

first book of Derrida's lectures was published last year too

I thought jakobson and the structuralists was the key to derridas but I come from a lit theory background

by the way any philosophy book is improved 1000% if you imagine zizek reading it to you in his voice

i sometimes make lectury gestures when i am reading philosophy bc i am explning it to myself

I'm philosophy

xpost yeah me too! (not in public tho, I don't have the stones fer that)

zizek's voice is great, and I have sometimes imitated it (in my head or aloud) while reading his stuff, but never thought of using it for other things. heh.

i think when i read derrida i imagine it in Dennis Hopper's voice

50 Philosophy Blogs!

http://onlinechristiancolleges.net/50-philosophy-blogs-to-help-you-find-the-meaning-of-life/

only two from that list I recognize/read sometimes are Larval Subjects and Object-Oriented Philosophy. but I still don't understand their whole "speculative realism" steeze.

there's a speculative realism collection on its way, you can learn soon! Although really I don't think it's much of anything at all, beyond very broad sweeps like being a strain of continental thought that takes science more seriously and tries to put together more positive projects after years of deconstructive negativity and such.

I'm pretty sure Levinas studied under Heidegger, making the whole nazism and turn away from Heidegger all the more dramatic.

just got Quentin Meillasoux's After Finitude from Amazon -- anyone read it?

YES!

it's excellent!

I'll need to read it many more times before I really understand it, but the stuff about the ancestral is so good

cool thread! current readings:
Deleuze - The Logic of Sense
Foucault - The Order of Things
Selected Writings of Nicholas of Cusa
and as always reading and re-reading Peirce for my dissertation.

anyone here into radical constructivism or second order cybernetics? (Heinz von Foerster, Spencer-Brown, Humberto Maturana, Niklas Luhmann, Francisco Varela, etc etc) Not philosophy proper but in truth i think it sheds a lot of light in that direction.

don't recognize most of those names... I'm curious about Luhmann (only know about him thru Habermas), but haven't read any yet -- I get the impression that his work would dovetail with Latour, who I quite like, but maybe I'm way off-base. also interested in cybernetics, but I feel like I need to really bone up on math before I can get anything out of it.

Yeah Latour is certainly close to those guys, as is Michel Serres.

looking at After Finitude on amazon, looks pretty cool, gonna pick it up.

Thinking about buying Leo Damrosch's Tocqueville's Discovery of America, anyone heard anything good about it? (Yes, probably more of a history than poly phi, but I've wanted to read something Tocqueville related for awhile.)

God, I was grumpy the other day. To make it up, here is a neat comic done by my mate, called Being & Tim. It is mostly philosophy dork jokes, and thus is very funny.

A++ emil.y, your friend's comics are great

looking at After Finitude on amazon, looks pretty cool, gonna pick it up.

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sorry, that exclamation point was maybe a bit much

If you guys wanna start a reading group I'll pick it up and participate when I get home.

been meaning to read it myself (really gotta work out what this big deal with correlationism lately is all about), so I would get involved with this.

would totally be into a reading group, need to kick myself off ILX more often

Bertrand Russell once referred to Kant as the greatest catastrophe in the history of philosophy, C.D. Broad commented that this position surely belonged to Hegel. Russell and Broad were wrong, because this title undoubtedly belongs to Martin Heidegger. Some years ago, Anthony Quinton spoke of Heidegger's 'pondrous and rubbishy woolgathering.' Until fairly recently, Heidegger was not taken seriously by philosophers in Great Britain and the United States. Unfortunately, this is no longer the case. One goal of the present study is to stem this ride of unreason.

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/manipulating_kids_for_the_shove_KPImNCo2nHfU6zOOeNVhqK/0

"RELIGION," a sheet from English class, handed out to eighth-graders, is provocatively titled. The typewritten paper presents some 20 quotes that can be described as anti-God, coming from philosophers from Kierkegaard to Schopenhauer. Even a "Yiddish proverb."

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"Men never do evil so fully and so happily as when they do it for conscience's sake," wrote Pascal.
I'm not entirely sure of the meaning of that quote, contained on the handout. But at a time when kids need religion, family and strong schools more than ever, this kind of lesson is best left alone.

pff, Kierkegaard would totally be down with doing stupid shit in the name of God, they should be all over him.