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January 2 - January 30, 2025
‘Week of Fools’ — a festival just before Lent marked by speeches filled with hilarious wordplay in the local dialect.
Selinsgrove needs a Fastnacht
Corydrane.’
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He had always described consciousness as a nothingness, but in fact his head had always been crowded with words and ideas.
Sarte's lived irony
In his last months, partners, lovers and disciples tended him in relays: Simone de Beauvoir, his young companion Arlette Elkaïm-Sartre (whom he had adopted as a daughter, to give her legal rights), and his long-time lover Michelle Vian. He also had a new young secretary and assistant, Benny Lévy, who helped with his writing and may have exerted an undue influence on him — at least, that was what some believed. Lévy was a man of strong opinions, a former Maoist now turned anti-Communist, and passionate about his Jewish identity. He was not the sort to efface himself as an invisible amanuensis.
He admits to being a daydreamer in matters of politics.
Raymond Aron also remarked that the ideas
Force of Circumstance,
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all the things I’ve talked about, others I have left unspoken — there is no place where it will all live again.
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Iris Murdoch, who had given English readers their first taste of existentialism.
The Brits
talk about anxiety, dishonesty and the fear of commitment.
Writing prompt
The unnamed object of desire here is authenticity.
Weve landed on Authenticity
human identity, purpose and freedom.
we are now unable to agree what it amounts to, what we need it for, how much of it can be allowed, how far it should be interpreted as the right to offend or transgress,
recent research suggests that those who have been encouraged to think they are unfree are inclined to behave less ethically, again suggesting that we treat it as an alibi.
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‘To think is to confine yourself to a single thought’, but I now feel that this is the very opposite
Abandoning thinking
He opened an early lecture series on Aristotle by saying, ‘He was born at such and such a time, he worked, and he died’ — as though that were all one needed to know about a life.
The author pushes for ,a conclusion,-an object in a world of objects.
Heidegger had his big Kehre — his ‘turn’ — but Sartre turned and turned and turned again.
Sarte as a demonstration of turning. yet the author misses the point thAt Heidegger's guy in a diner- IS the product outward. i see Sarte as disempowering and each turning an example to rush to an "unconclusion"
in order to pursue a more intense form of mysticism.
Inaccurate: abandoned the conversation of religion
what sort of beings we are or want to be in our online lives, and what sort of Being we have, or want to have.
Internet public Beings
Dreyfus and others have long recognised, computers are bad phenomenologists.
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We grow up immersed in the ‘imponderable bloom’ of life and relationships — a phrase borrowed from E. M. Forster’s prescient
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‘embodied cognition’, which studies consciousness as a holistic social and sensory phenomenon rather than as a sequence
Embodied cognition as a concept is dumped at the conclusion
she devoted her philosophical writing to exploring how the two forces of constraint and freedom play themselves out through our lives, as each of us slowly becomes ourselves.
SDV- constraint and freedom
Brentano’s thesis on Aristotle’s uses of the term ‘being’ also inspired Heidegger.
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Friedrich Hölderlin
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Benny Lévy (1945–2003): Philosopher and activist; Sartre’s assistant and co-author of the controversial series of interviews, Hope Now (1980).
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Writer in Residence at the New York Institute of Humanities at NYU,
Simonetta Ficai-Veltroni, who has stuck with me phenomenology and all, and that’s just the beginning of it.
Adieux: a farewell to Sartre,
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Old Age,
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She Came to Stay,
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‘The Useless Mouths’ and Other Literary Writings,
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A Very Easy Death,
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Caligula, Cross Purpose, The Just, The Possessed,
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Cassirer, Ernst & Heidegger, Martin, Débat sur le Kantisme et la philosophie, ed. P. Aubenque (Paris: Éditions Beauchesne, 1972).
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Ettinger, Elzbieta, Hannah Arendt, Martin Heidegger
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Poetry, Language, Thought, tr.
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Heinemann, Friedrich, Existentialism and the Modern
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The Question of German Guilt,
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On Escape — De l’évasion, tr. B. Bergo,
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Lewis, Michael & Staehler, Tanya, Phenomenology: an introduction (London & New York: Continuum, 2010).
What does this say about Brene Brown?
Merleau-Ponty, Maurice, Adventures of the Dialectic,
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