Jamal

Partly for my own benefit I'd like to work out exactly what is lost, what is misleading, in this over-simple formulation. It seems to assume there is ...

Specifically it is dissolving the problem in favour of the subject, which is why he is against idealism.

Sexual fantasies are likely the preserve of adults, but I suspect that violent fantasies are indulged and enjoyed by children too. From a child's poin...

Okay, this is great. I think you've hit the nail on the head. I was focusing on the full-on idealism because you had been seeking justification not ju...

I think he states it openly in the first lecture:

Yes, and that would be very much in sympathy with Marcuse, I suppose. Adorno is just a lot less optimistic across the board. Feel free! Anyway, I'll r...

My previous post in reply to you was rather dismissive and simplistic. I do see the problems, you've set them out well in your latest post, your posit...

On the topic of realism it would be interesting at some point to compare Adorno with McDowell. They seem very close, and also very distant. For both, ...

Such is the riveting nature of the video, I'm not going to watch any of it now, because once I start I'll have to watch the whole thing.

What we need is a ranking video.

Yep, that's how I read it.

Nice one. Not exactly life-or-death though, because you don't really need a spoon to eat soup.

Is it really ever necessary to check a nursery rhyme? Can you imagine a life-or-death situation in which you have to determine exactly which little pi...

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I've only skimmed the lecture and will have re-read it, but from my dark post-Marxist point of view he might actually be too uncritical of Marxism. I ...

I hesistate to follow you down that rabbit hole, because I find it hard to relate to your concerns. I think you're making it more complex than you nee...

:vomit:

Each to their own, but there are levels of artistry in such fiction. Your nonsense is often inspired and energetic, but it's undeveloped. Nabokov, on ...

Adorno's view is interesting here. I don't suppose he would use the term "higher truth", but he sees a function for art over and above craft, entertai...

That's exactly what I asked for so thanks. Keep them coming.

Self-sacrifice is to be commended. Bask in the glory.

That's a relief because I find most museums to be really terrible places to appreciate art. I like the idea that art is public, but then I have to put...

Like Adorno, I don't accept the antecedent. Things are really connected, before a system is applied to them. Indeed we could think of that as his main...

It knows what you like

Its hands are improving

Disturbingly amusing and clever. I chuckled twice.

How about Erudite-R-Us, Eruditia, Erudite-as-fuck, T-Erudite-Clark-n-stuff?

Turns out the word for one who displays temerity is "temerarious". In searching for that I found out that temerity doesn't mean what I thought it mean...

A temeritous is a gopher-like creature native to the meadows of the Andean foothills.

Note his way of wording this. I think it implies there is an alternative form of the portrayal of totality, namely that which does not contain everyth...

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Would it be temeritous of me to delve into your mind and diagnose you as suffering from a deep mental rift, a self divided by, on the one hand, the ne...

That's a good way of putting it. And from Adorno's point of view neither the myth nor the smorgasbord are good options, on their own.

Art and philosophy: bad for army morale and bad for business! All art is quite useless, Oscar said. Like many of the best things in life. Like life it...

Anyway MU, I'll ponder your thorough analysis and get back to you in a day or two. I'll say right now though, that I don't really see the problem. I m...

Isn't there? Is this a Thatcherite point, i.e., there's no such thing as society?

And it's not like he clearly demarcates X and Y aspects anyway. For example, in the lectures he seems to approve of the "principle of unity," but in N...

Some reflections concerning dialectics in general... Here I'm tempted as always to resolve the contradiction by saying that his position is not really...

Proust is great but I don't expect to go back to him to finish it. As Alonso said, it can be tedious. I haven't read the big Frenchies either: Flauber...

But this is ambiguous. He promotes the need for a system, in that he thinks there is something important in this need that can be redirected into "bla...

@"Alonsoaceves" is responding to my ten-year-old OP, which is about In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust. Update: I never did get through the whole...

This is a common reaction, but you should question it, since it calls into question the whole practice of descriptive lexicography.

Four legs in a can, €19.90: https://i.postimg.cc/mkn2GHWr/Duck-Confit-Reflets-De-France-Buy-Online-My-French-Grocery-jpeg.png

He is saying there is value in the need for a system, but he is not promoting the project of a philosophical system itself. He is on board with the mo...

I experienced the same thing with canned meat. When I went to France I discovered duck confit and other unctuous delights, which are definitely not ch...

Is it though?

I prefer canned mackerel.

The first time I read this I thought wow, MU, you're a genius, I totally missed that twist! And it's backed up by the notes for the lecture: So now I'...

Ha! But wait: you picked up on a passing mention of Russia but I also mentioned France, where I ate more trout than I do now. I also used to get trout...

I'm a trout man. I eat it literally whenever possible. I'd be eating it right now if I wasn't stuffing my face with Vologda butter. I used to catch tr...