[quote] Bah. Tractatus is so yesterday. Try Philosophical Investigations. <hr></blockquote>
I'll secong that !!
And who gets Being and Nothingness in High School?!?!?
. . .. and why reread it? isn't once enough? . . . and why bother? just read Sartre's two page refutation of his own work . . . which says, basically. . ."um... gee.. I forgot the 'social'"
Or better yet, read Heidegger's Letter On Humanism Heidegger's setting Sartre straight....
I'm reading Dionysus Reborn: Play and the Aesthetic Dimension In Modern Philosophical and Scientific Discourse by Mihai Spariosu
as well as some other texts on the concept of Play: Huizinga, Norman O Brown.
just finished bed-time reading: Everything Is Illuminated by Jonathan something or other... I don't have it here in front of me and it was OVERRATED but still pretty good
Mozilla man, don't get me wrong, But Ishmael sucks!!!
It is the most self delluded kind of false ideological nature worship that you can find. If it has any redeeming value it can be boiled down to this: "don't think like the herd"
All of its crappy distinctions between 'takers' and whatever the false antinnomy was, (I pleasantly forgot) are gross simplifications of the human predicament.
If you want to see what I mean: look at the absolutely atrocious film that was made from the book (Anthony Hopkins and Cuba Gooding). By seeing the kind of delusional beliefs that this film had about man in a state of nature, . . . or even gorillas... you can see that the book too is grounded in these ideas.
That the book also sees a sentimental greeting card version of a state of nature, complete with golden light and sweeping panoramas is revealed through the movie clearly.
Its ideas are wrong: the picture of blissfull grass eating oneness with nature, man happiest as a gorilla is a misunderstanding of nature that only serves the author's unfortunate political ideas (& gives liberals a bad name), and lends any credence given to environmental thought reasons for doubt: That book is so grounded in a sentimentalized cartoon image of human nature that it cheapens real concern for our relationship to nature. And it completely overlooks the fact that gorillas are not the kindly gentle wise peacefull giants that he imagines, but are known to be very violent at times, territorial, patriarchal, and, even known to have cannibals among themselves . . . .
I would recomend that if you want to read something that is truly critical of the ways that we think, socially and philosophically, without the distortions of sentimentality, then you should read Nietzsche.... for example Thus Spake Zarathustra or The Gay Science
of course, even that is good... except where he calls Jesus an "idiot" . . . (from the Greek, meaning isolated one, that is) that's pretty undignified of ole Freidrich
Still getting through Adorno's Aesthetic Theory, one page at a time ; Manil Suri's The Death of Vishnu, and the camel book is open on the desk in front of me...
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<strong>Carl Hiassen is one of my all-time favorite writers. <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0449219410/qid=1024072001/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/104-8555560-2196737"; target="_blank">"Skin Tight"</a> is one I reread about once a year.</strong><hr></blockquote>That one I have personally recommended to our resident Plastic Surgeon
- T.I.
<strong>That one I have personally recommended to our resident Plastic Surgeon
- T.I.</strong><hr></blockquote>
Unfortunately i did not receive my book yet.
Happy that you appreciat my work TI
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Unfortunately i did not receive my book yet.
Happy that you appreciat my work TI
- T.I.
Sun Tzu: The Art of War
Novell's guide to Netware 5.0/5.1
I'll secong that !!
And who gets Being and Nothingness in High School?!?!?
. . .. and why reread it? isn't once enough? . . . and why bother? just read Sartre's two page refutation of his own work . . . which says, basically. . ."um... gee.. I forgot the 'social'"
Or better yet, read Heidegger's Letter On Humanism Heidegger's setting Sartre straight....
I'm reading Dionysus Reborn: Play and the Aesthetic Dimension In Modern Philosophical and Scientific Discourse by Mihai Spariosu
as well as some other texts on the concept of Play: Huizinga, Norman O Brown.
just finished bed-time reading: Everything Is Illuminated by Jonathan something or other... I don't have it here in front of me and it was OVERRATED but still pretty good
for pierre's sake, where does one go to nihilate their nothingness?!??!
The book simply rocks, and it shook my world. Go Quinn!!
- T.I.
It is the most self delluded kind of false ideological nature worship that you can find. If it has any redeeming value it can be boiled down to this: "don't think like the herd"
All of its crappy distinctions between 'takers' and whatever the false antinnomy was, (I pleasantly forgot) are gross simplifications of the human predicament.
If you want to see what I mean: look at the absolutely atrocious film that was made from the book (Anthony Hopkins and Cuba Gooding). By seeing the kind of delusional beliefs that this film had about man in a state of nature, . . . or even gorillas... you can see that the book too is grounded in these ideas.
That the book also sees a sentimental greeting card version of a state of nature, complete with golden light and sweeping panoramas is revealed through the movie clearly.
Its ideas are wrong: the picture of blissfull grass eating oneness with nature, man happiest as a gorilla is a misunderstanding of nature that only serves the author's unfortunate political ideas (& gives liberals a bad name), and lends any credence given to environmental thought reasons for doubt: That book is so grounded in a sentimentalized cartoon image of human nature that it cheapens real concern for our relationship to nature. And it completely overlooks the fact that gorillas are not the kindly gentle wise peacefull giants that he imagines, but are known to be very violent at times, territorial, patriarchal, and, even known to have cannibals among themselves . . . .
I would recomend that if you want to read something that is truly critical of the ways that we think, socially and philosophically, without the distortions of sentimentality, then you should read Nietzsche.... for example Thus Spake Zarathustra or The Gay Science
Sorry to be critical... but its kind of my job
While you're at it don't forget The AntiChrist'
Still getting through Adorno's Aesthetic Theory, one page at a time
Considering the vitriol with which 'ole Freidrich ' attacks Christianity I'm taking 'undignified ' to mean that you're a fan (?)
Pleased to meet you.
From Dawn to Decadence, and Lolita.
I read A Confederacy of Dunces a few weeks ago and it was pretty good ... nice, light reading, and very funny in parts.
Anyone have the balls to try out Wolfram's book?
pfflam What is it that you do?
Then it's "See No Evil" by Robert Baer (no, it's not a horror book..it's about the CIA)
I read quite a bit but none of the books listed above have crossed my path. Course I read to be entertained.
Hey Amorph are you a student or a professor at the University of Iowa?