I banned @"Harry Hindu", partly for low quality, and partly for obnoxiousness. I want people to know there's no room here for that kind of crap any mo...
I know this is the Lounge but I don't see why TPF should be hosting disputes like this. It's effectively a platform for culture warriors. I'm closing ...
Yes, but... For Horkheimer, the "Enlightenment's emphasis on human autonomy" led to the erosion of objective reason only because it was not properly r...
Closing the shoutbox temporarily. EDIT: Philosophy is allowed in the Shoutbox only if it is relaxed and friendly and doesn't involve personal attacks....
I roughly agree. I like this angle on possibility. My only doubt is your interpretation of "immediately realized," which differs from mine. It's diffi...
Introduction: RHETORIC (ii) The last paragraph of the introduction is about utopia. This doesn't mean a plan for a perfect society but rather the reco...
Yes, I think it's like this: immediacy in circumstances of modernity is always fake, a result of reification. Those things that present themselves as ...
Nice. I would add that the underlying problem the introduction sets out to solve is that this requisite method, conceptual and linguistic as it must b...
Well I've never been called that before! Since, as I pointed out, the study of the tradition is not the worship of texts but is part of an effort to t...
Fair enough. Totally understandable. I'm into Marx and Adorno, two significantly Hegelian philosophers, and I haven't even read Hegel either (not much...
Thank you for the kind words, Philosophim. This doesn't quite capture my view, and I think it belittles the study of the philosophical tradition. You ...
Fair. I am a snotty troll occasionally. I may try to respond to the OP directly later---I have things to say---but first I'll address the three most o...
Yes indeed. I would go further and say that the philosophy is in that journey, not in its conclusions or theses. Otherwise your post is mostly bad adv...
As you so lucidly explained, part of the practice of spiritual/intellectual experience which goes by the name of negative dialectics is the understand...
I read a fascinating novel last year about Noah's Ark: Not Wanted on the Voyage by Timothy Findley, in which Noah, friend and loyal servant of Yahweh,...
Even though Adorno's writing in ND is singularly dense and difficult, and even though this is intentional, he is open and honest and says what he mean...
First, I realize that your view is significantly American, but don't assimilate me to your parochial politics. I'm not American and I am highly scepti...
I'd just like to correct this interpretation and say more about this passage. Adorno is saying that rhetoric was tossed aside and degraded until it be...
As I say every year, we didn't have pumpkins when I was a wee lad. In some ways, swedes/turnips/rutabagas were superior. I mean, look: https://i.posti...
Introduction: RHETORIC (i) We've finally reached the end of the introduction. I really enjoyed this section and found it kind of mindblowing. I wasn't...
If you replace "theism" with "religion" it would work better, no? But even then, beliefs, which are true or false, matter to a lot of religious people...
Yes, makes sense. Yes, definitely. But since one of the big questions for Adorno is "how thought, by having to relinquish tradition, might be able to ...
I can see how it was misunderstood, but I've said I wasn't messaged, so that's that. If you're going to apologize do it without backtracking. It's per...
I'm all about the subtlety. Subtlety is my middle name. But I don't think it's all that hard. It just means I take my interlocutor to stand as represe...
I didn't mean to imply that you wanted an authoritarian state. But now I'm wondering: would you like to see changes in the sexual behaviour of people?...
I am not reducing ethics to psycho-sociological enquiry. That's right. But you've misunderstood. I'm not saying that your motives, or those of earlier...
Leon, you go on about true philosophical engagement but this exchange between yourself and Moliere demonstrates perfectly that it must be bullshit. Yo...
I didn't mean I have to account for the entirety of Christianity. The task is just to trace the argument back to its source, not in Aristotle or even ...
Under this scheme, eristic is what happens when I fail to escape from the direct engagement, i.e., in Adorno's terms, fail to move from the particular...
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