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Humanistic Reason sounds like the best best ever.

Now I'm going to read The Bluest Eye, thank you very much!

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'promosm'

3:19 well fascists claimed Hegel-Giovanni Gentile, the philosopher of fascism, was a right-wing Hegelian who held Hegel as one of his “spiritual ancestors” and felt an “unrepayable debt to his inspiration.” _(Phil. of Giovanni Gentile,_ Oxford Uni. Press, 1920)

Book already ordered

The dynamic duo

I love Todd but he has a poor understanding of Deleuze

Great conversation. Thanks so much. I am looking to get more into Hegel, and this helped to clarify a few things.

Yes, Ivan! The reading of the novel, though at first fragmentary in appearance, gains a deep continuity of experience. The structure mimics attention itself in our overstuffed era of screen to screen, podcast to cable to Twitter to Facebook to text to book to conversation to Google maps. Yet, marvelously, a continuity of story. Egan made, like any great album, all the songs come together.

Were Hitler and Stalin inspired by critical theory to change the world?

BS, "epistemological path" is a elitist buzzword that few understand. WTF are you trying to say? If you know, just say it, unless you are only trying to speak to the elite.

11:33 “Understanding is always dividing things up and never looking for the connection and that’s what reason does-and that’s what allows it to arrive at contradiction.”

I need book, " win from within" by John heskett Please send it to me. I shall be grateful to you.

16:42 sounds like Hegel presaged the _embodied cognition_ thesis here

don't mean to be a dick about it, but if you're going to talk against thinking about things "discretely" it would behove the discussion to avoid compartment thought and refer to philosopher through bullet points shortcuts.

Great interviewew. Is it the whole interview?

Bla, bla, bla, books like these are the ones who have alienated readers from Joyce's literature...

I appreciate the attention that prof. Bernard Harcourt gives to the relationship between action and critical thought. Also, I am glad that he proposes at the end of his introduction a focus on compassion and justice; especially, since within the academic discourses I have encountered the uninitiated newcomers to critical theory often feel rejected due to either a sense they should engage in an irreverent intellectual dissection of their ‘common’ knowledge or learn to skilfully navigate through an esoteric/foreign linguistic maze. The motivations of the critical thinkers such as Foucault, Adorno, Arendt, Derrida were not, in my view, indulgently intellectual. To challenge conventional ideas and established power structures within Western academia meant understanding them and their origins. Hopefully, critical theory can exit the impasses of: elitism; senseless play with language without any humour left, and perpetual rejection by those who do not have time to bother with foreign names. Hopefully, it can offer new ways of integrating realistic practices and necessary socio-political changes into the everyday lives of the American people. I look forward to reading the book. Marija Krtolica, Brooklyn

Nice 36:14 🍌🍌🍌🍌

I really appreciate what Prof. Harcourt wants to do with this book. I wonder, though, if some work could have been done to make it a bit less intimidating to the average reader. Maybe that is the task for a different author...

So when we read “ What is rational is actual; and what is actual is rational” through Kant, whom Hegel is drawing on, it translates into, “the antinomies of reason that scupper the universal are not just epistemic but have ontological effects, and everything that exists fails to be totalised (especially in its particular) in any unproblematic way because of the antinomies of reason?” As soon as ‘rational’ means Kant’s Reason and its paradoxes, the superficial meaning read as trying to validate Voltaire’s satirical “best of all possible worlds” swings into Gulliver’s Travels satire on the existing world, opening a critique of reality? This does seem to point to Lacan’s formulas of sexuation which deals with the rational and the actual in their internal failures. At least if I am understanding right. Your book is one of my faves by the way.

psychoanalysis or dialectics? or both?

The actuality of thought is what you do after Todd, Dick, and Hegel.