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> Yes, Ronald Reagan was the master of this, but
> he had his predecessors too. Back in the
> 1950s, President Eisenhower pulled a similar act too.
> He was famous for his press conferences with his jumbled syntax,
> his confusing and confuesed answers, which aroused jeers
> from
On Wed, 26 Jan 2011 16:51:06 -0500 c b writes:
> Michelle Bachmann's intelligence isn't the issue. Like Palin and W,
> she wants to appear less educated, because that enhances her brand
> with a "she's just one of us" vitality. None of these people are
> stupid. You can't get where they are if y
Michelle Bachmann's intelligence isn't the issue. Like Palin and W,
she wants to appear less educated, because that enhances her brand
with a "she's just one of us" vitality. None of these people are
stupid. You can't get where they are if you're stupid. Ad hominem
attacks result from laziness. Zer
http://www.moyak.com/papers/adorno-schoenberg-atonality.html
Adorno's own work was influenced by Schoenberg's atonality, but in
much more than his musical compositions. In Origins of Negative
Dialetics, Susan Buck-Morss observes that:
Schoenberg's revolution in music provided the inspiration
http://www.moyak.com/papers/adorno-schoenberg-atonality.html
Theodor Adorno's Theory of Music and its Social Implications
by Moya K. Mason
Art is mind, and mind does not at all need to feel itself obligated to
the community, to society, it may not, in my view, for the sake of its
freedom, its n
Henry David Thoreau' Individualist Anarchism is revealed
demonstratively in his famous Robinsonade adventure in _Walden Pond_.
Thoreau is left politically in many practices, but his theory is shown
to be at least partly in the great bourgeois individualist tradition
by that book and activity.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Being_and_Nothingness
Analysis
While a prisoner of war in 1940/1941 Sartre read Martin Heidegger's
Being and Time, an ontological investigation through the lens and
method of Husserlian phenomenology (Husserl was Heidegger's teacher).
Reading Being and Time initiated
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ressentiment
Ressentiment
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In philosophy and psych
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ressentiment
Sartre
Jean-Paul Sartre used the term bad faith to describe a highly similar
phenomenon of blaming one's own failure on external factors and
therefore denying responsibility for oneself. The major difference
between the two is that Sartre presupposed the
In other words:
"Men make their own history, but they do not make it just as they
please; they do not make it under circumstances chosen by themselves,
but under circumstances directly encountered, given and transmitted
from the past. The tradition of all the dead generations weighs like a
nightma
Bad faith
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bad_faith_%28existentialism%29
A critical claim in existentialist thought is that individuals are
always free to make choices and guide their lives towards their own
chosen goal or "project". The claim holds that individuals cannot
escape this freedom, even
, Eubulides wrote:
> [Mereological mayhem for methodological individualism]
^^^
CB: Yes indeed
US lawyers in establishing the legal fiction of the personhood of the
corporation or the Personhood of Capital make a nice representation of
the deep bourgeois ideological mythical concept of Indi
(The Myth of the Wizard of Oz)
[lbo-talk] Mommy, can a corporation be embarrassed?
Eubulides paraconsistent at comcast.net
[Mereological mayhem for methodological individualism]
http://www.propublica.org/blog/item/as-citizens-united-turns-1-u.s.-supreme-court-considers-corporate-personhoo
As C
the larger human community is predicated upon the pre-existence of individuals.
With due respect, this is the crux. Social determinists r saying that
the community is not predicated on pre-existing , independent,
isolated individuals, or “selves”. Rather the opposite: Society
preexists the in
US lawyers in establishing the legal fiction of the personhood of the
corporation or the Personhood of Capital make a nice representation of
the deep bourgeois ideological illusory concept of Individual
Determinism. Capital is a profoundly determining _social_ institution
in capitalism, natch. By
The role of the
> existential sensibility in one's overall world view and trajectory is
> vital to understand, as well as the appropriation of the
> metaphysical/epistemological baggage to support one's projects.
>
> The modern period, which of course witnesses the scientific revolution,
> the Enl
http://www.marxists.org/archive/caudwell/index.htm
Christopher Caudwell 1938
Liberty
A study in bourgeois illusion
Source: “Studies in a Dying Culture,” first published 1938.
Republished 1977 in “The Concept of Freedom,” Lawrence & Wishart, London.
Transcribed: by Dominic Tweedie;
Proofed and c
Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts of 1844. Karl Marx
Estranged Labour
http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1844/manuscripts/labour.htm
In estranging from man (1) nature, and (2) himself, his own active
functions, his life activity, estranged labor estranges the species
from man. It c
On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 11:55 AM, Ralph Dumain wrote:
> This is, however, a superficial analysis of what this is all about.
> There is, as far as I can tell, a qualitative difference between a
> quasi-existentialist position like the Biblical narrative of Job and the
> existentialist sensibility we
This is, however, a superficial analysis of what this is all about.
There is, as far as I can tell, a qualitative difference between a
quasi-existentialist position like the Biblical narrative of Job and the
existentialist sensibility we find from the 19th century on. I imagine
one could find c
“In community, the individual is, crucial as the prior condition for
forming a community. … Every individual in the community guarantees
the community; the public is a chimera, numerality is everything…”
– Søren Kierkegaard, Journals
Pace Kierkegaard, of course , for we social determinists ,
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