Jamal

You may have answered this earlier in the discussion, but my obvious question is: what do you mean by real? If you take a Kantian view of the matter, ...

Speaking as someone who has only read Hegel’s Philosophy of History and a bunch of Hegelian thinkers like Marx, Zizek, and Adorno (and not much of the...

Yeah that’s on my list too. :grin:

Finished it. Pessimistic but also utopian, outrageous but also convincing, obscure but also polemical, bitter but also humane, anti-enlightenment but ...

In a good way :grin:

You’re in your own special category.

I suppose I could try doing the same and see what happens. How do you do it again? :lol:

That image shows ok on mobile for me and I don’t recall having trouble viewing images. I don’t know why your mobile browser wouldn’t show it. So … I c...

I wouldn’t dream of making such an outrageous claim.

Agreed. So here’s my version. Canonicals (includes some Anglos and many continentals, as well as those who are neither. Focused on or knowledgeable in...

Yep, seems useful, although you might find that each person has their own taxonomy reflecting their prejudices, which becomes reinforcing when made ex...

Cool. At various times I think I’ve been in all of those categories except “original sythesizers”. “Continentals” should probably also include critica...

Good morning and good luck!

Despite all that, apparently Adorno was a big fan of the TV show Daktari, starring Clarence the cross-eyed lion.

Cool! I just occasionally hear bits and pieces of hers and haven’t taken a deep dive.

My attitude going into this was that I wanted a brief palate-cleanser between heavy works of fiction, which could also neatly fill a gap in my philoso...

I just made and very much enjoyed pasta and fried turkey hearts in a sauce made from left-over vegetable soup.

https://youtu.be/gDr3d5SviZc

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I know. I was describing my own approach in your terms.

Better than the pub bore act.

By the same token, in writing a bad review I’m providing a service. I’m saying, it’s ok not to read this, try something wonderful instead. The main th...

Yes, their outrage about it leaps off the page.

Kind of the same with me: I’ve only read about it and read bits of it before. So far it’s quite angry and declamatory. I kept on reading for three rea...

Thanks for the recommendation, I’d never heard of it. Looks good, so it’s now on my list :up:

No, it’s an imaginative leap. I’d call it an insight, but that would imply it’s right. As you said, and unlike Kant, he “invents a thing-in-itself abo...

Yes, I agree.

Yeah, Schopenhauer is not arguing that objects have subjectivity, only that they have an inner aspect, the inaccessible object-in-itself. He calls it ...

Dialectic of Enlightenment by Max Horkheimer and Theodor W. Adorno.

:grin: Well, I finished it. I didn’t like it much, but often it’s the books I dislike that I want to talk about… Crash by J. G. Ballard: a novel about...

Crash by J. G. Ballard. So absurdly perverted that it’s often quite funny:

The notion of false needs has been popular among Marxists since the Frankfurt School, and their analysis has moved on from Marx to suit the times, as ...

I agree that there's a Protestant aspect to the critique of consumerism and I'm really not on board with it either. Socialism has always had a puritan...

Yes, but it does at least help answer the question in the OP. I’m not going to attempt to set out the overarching argument that the thing in itself is...

From §19: Here he seems to admit that it's an assumption and an analogy. However, he does want the conclusion to be taken seriously, that the world in...

I think these are different questions. One is about the dying art of abstract speculation, and the other is about the lack of meaning. The end of abst...

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He should’ve done. They’re epic.

The good thing about the success of the German supermarket chains Lidl and Aldi across Europe is that while they do adapt the stock to suit the divers...

Hm, must be a cultural thing. The traditional fare at British football matches is a meat pie and a mug of beef tea.

Neither. It’s a sad fact that trade in American goods is an illicit underground activity carried out in dark corners where shady individuals deal out ...

Truth be told it’s not really sandwiches. Just pile the herring on top of some kind of dark rye bread—I like it toasted but sometimes it’s fried in ga...

Thought about reading We Had to Remove This Post by Hanna Bervoets, published last year. Maybe too close to home, except the bit about finding a new g...

100% real authentic pumpernickel as far as I know. I doubt it was American. In Europe, American food items other than M&Ms, Pringles, and French’s mus...

Yes, I think the problem was the bread. The buns I’ve had have been too soft and airy, like eating clouds. I like pumpernickel pickled herring sandwic...

I like Germanic sausages, white bread, onions, and mustard, and they all seem like natural partners—but I’ve never had a satisfying hot dog. What’s th...

Perhaps your advisor was speaking before Spanish-language literature became world famous, notably for magic realism. But between Don Quixote and the s...

I’d like to see more members trained in philosophy but the Guest Speaker thing is hit and miss, mostly miss as far as I can recall. I’m certainly happ...

I'm not sure that would make it more likely we'd get more academically trained philosophers. It's certain we'd get a bigger problem with quality, and ...

He used to be a moderator, but left the job a few years ago.