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That's roughly right as far as it goes, but I think it probably minimizes vast differences, between (a) the nonidentical and the mystical, and of cour...

You seem to be both more radical and also more conservative than Adorno. You go further than him in your rejection of Enlightenment reason, but defang...

Yes, but I tend not to think that way about food, so if I'm thinking anything, I'm thinking "Mmm, poppy seeds". Or these days, "I wish these were sesa...

Their taste is unique, so they don't taste like anything, except themselves.

Whereupon your associates, full of an admiration tinged with mild concern, were stunned into silence by your unpredictable, thrill-seeking behaviour.

Nice. But... That’s precisely what Adorno will not accept. For him, the actual is the site of reason's failure, not its fulfillment.

You continue to resist the reciprocity, then. For Adorno, it's not a dualism between separate forces so much as a dialectical entanglement between rea...

Like frolicking in a summer meadow, naked except for a pair of clogs?

Sounds fun! On the theme of foreign restaurants, I hope it was better than the Scottish restaurants I found in Seville, Moscow, and Victoria, Canada. ...

Yep, I quite like it. Here in Russia it's called Olivier salad, obligatory on New Year's Eve. A popular but divisive summer "soup" here is okroshka, w...

His view of utopia might shed some light on this. He thinks the utopian impulse, the sense that there is a way we could live that would be much better...

I used to always tell people I preferred poppy-seed bagels to sesame-seed bagels, but now my preference has reversed. What's that all about? What has ...

Adorno problematizes the binary while also talking in terms of that binary. The first view of the irrational as associated only with the unconscious i...

:smile: :cool:

Habermas faulted Adorno for being too negative, but in these lectures we can see him trying to articulate a philosophy that is not only critical but i...

Relatedly, one thing that really crystallized for me when I read AV was the historical contingency of the is-ought gap and the fact-value dichotomy. Y...

:clap: :wink:

I think you've committed the motte-and-bailey fallacy, moving from a controversial existential claim to an uncontroversial functional one, from talk o...

Note that unlike me, he was not talking about how it feels.

After Virtue is brilliant and I keep meaning to read it again and look at his other work. I’m surprised he’s so seldom mentioned on TPF, considering h...

That’s a good avenue. Punctuation marks shape rhythm and breathing, and that ties everything back to @"T Clark": So we all agree and it wasn’t a mirag...

My mind could not be more blown now, so you'd better stop with the insights.

Mind-blowing. Good stuff. Reminds me of what Adorno said just before the bit I quoted earlier:

How Freudian of you. You go a bit far when you say that the unconscious is the "authentic self," in my opinion. What's missing from your view is the r...

So Adorno's critical rationality makes use of play, intuition, mimesis, and the irrational, but channeled and controlled. This got me thinking about A...

True story. My lachrymose rivers were not entirely ironic. I was genuinely sad when the abstract hooked me and then I couldn't find out how it went.

I agree with this: But not with this: It's not like that for me. It's not coming just "from somewhere inside." Here is something I wrote on TPF 10 yea...

You smashed it. But don't call them weeds.

That is fertile ground, I expect. I’m desperate to know more about that third function, but I don’t have access to read it. :cry: Oh. Never mind then.

LND lecture 9 I really enjoyed this lecture, but there is a lot packed into it. The concept of intellectual experience contains an empiricist element,...

@"Banno" @"Fire Ologist" Break it up, you two. If you can't be civil, walk away, or I'll have to start deleting your posts.

Sometimes fairness isn’t fair.

@"T Clark" And another thing. What do you think and feel when you see bad punctuation? Me, I don’t just think, oh, they haven’t communicated possessio...

Yes, I withdraw my parenthetical comment stating that a semi-colon can be replaced with a full stop with no loss of meaning. Even if it’s often true, ...

We felt that philosophy was being diluted on the main page so we closed the politics and current affairs category and moved several threads to the Lou...

Great points. That’s quite good. I hadn’t thought about it like that.

@"T Clark" I feel the tantalizing presence, off in the distance across a chaotic chasm of confusion, of a happy synthesis combining all of our views, ...

Looks familiar :grin: EDIT: In fact, I'd like to hang it on my wall

I agree, and I admit it would take some work to show how this isn't contradictory.

Mainly I liked the idea of punctuation marks as friendly spirits. The quotation gets across how punctuation feels to me: something that has its own lo...

I don't think so, but I can't rule it out. Can you elaborate? Alternatively: define "contradict".

Yep, but coffee.

Nice use of the em dash there.

LND lecture 8 My lecture breakdown: Infinity came into philosophy from the infinitesimal calculus But in German idealism, the concept of infinity dege...

This kind of legalese I can understand. I get it. Since weeds are a social construct, not just a mental construct, there is a social pressure whereby ...

That's some funky math(s) you've got over there. The thing is, I don't have a lawn mower and don't want to buy one, and I'm used to my robot vacuum cl...

Yeah, it was inevitable that Adorno was going to say that confining ourselves to mortal thoughts is the only way we can think immortal thoughts. Just ...

I'm telling you, so you don't have to torture your back any more.

@"Hanover" I like those dandy lions, but I'm wondering: how long would it take say 3 goats to clear that vegetation. I'm assuming goats would eat it b...

I just made a list of the points he covers in lecture 8 and may post it tomorrow. I'm looking forward to what you say because, oddly, I don't really h...