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Sep 10, 2022

Mass, Class and Party: Badiou’s Communist Critique of Sartre

Alain Badiou is one of France’s best, living philosophers. His book Pocket Pantheon: Figures of Postwar Philosophy (2009) is published by Verso Books. As a shorter work, the book contains brief tributes from Badiou on several major intellectuals. From his perspective teaching in France, he introduces and eulogizes the masters…

Marxism

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Mass, Class and Party: Badiou’s Critique of Sartre as Communists
Mass, Class and Party: Badiou’s Critique of Sartre as Communists
Marxism

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May 22, 2022

Part III: Death, Chance, and Two Origins of Schopenhauer’s Idealism

The Two Origins of Schopenhauer’s Pure Idealism Schopenhauer identifies Vedanta philosophy from India as a source for his inspiration. He reads Vyasa metaphysically for how matter and mind relate. That correction is embodied when he quotes Sir William Jones from his essay, “On the philosophy of the Asiatics,” to argue that metaphysical idealism consists: “not in denying…

Philosophy

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Part III: Death, Chance, and Two Origins of Schopenhauer’s Idealism
Part III: Death, Chance, and Two Origins of Schopenhauer’s Idealism
Philosophy

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Feb 28, 2022

Part II: Hegel’s Autocritique of Kant’s Pure Transcendental Idealism

Hegel’s argument for the world’s rational character continues what Immanuel Kant names transcendental philosophy. What is Transcendental in Kant? According to the American analytic philosopher Richard Schacht, what is transcendental in Kant is “what might be called the basic structures of the mind” (1975, p. 24). Those “structures of the mind” are the “basic” requirements…

Philosophy

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Part II: Hegel’s Autocritique of Kant’s Pure Transcendental Idealism
Part II: Hegel’s Autocritique of Kant’s Pure Transcendental Idealism
Philosophy

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Feb 10, 2022

Part I: The Idea of Totality in Hegel

The unity of this study arranges a detailed perspective on three German philosophers: G.W. F. Hegel, Arthur Schopenhauer, and Friedrich Nietzsche. Assembled together, the philosophers confirm and contend with the historical and moral fault lines of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. During his lifetime, Hegel was “called to Berlin” by…

Philosophy

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Part I: The Idea of Totality in Hegel
Part I: The Idea of Totality in Hegel
Philosophy

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Aug 22, 2021

Delicate Details: Disability in Nietzsche and Deleuze

The arrangement of this study is the singularity of the body as a venue of health and disability for two philosophers, Friedrich Nietzsche and Gilles Deleuze. Deleuze’s explanation for the health great writers is the contradictory relationship between personal life and health. …

Philosophy

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Delicate Details: Disability in Nietzsche and Deleuze
Delicate Details: Disability in Nietzsche and Deleuze
Philosophy

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Jul 21, 2021

Microhistory and Early-Modern Blood Transfusion

Holly Tucker’s book titled Blood Work (2011) opens with the death of the first president of the United States. George Washington received four rounds of bloodletting when he fell ill. His life ended after the treatment intended to cure him. After the president passed, his family declined an offer by…

History

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Microhistory and Early-Modern Blood Transfusion
Microhistory and Early-Modern Blood Transfusion
History

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May 26, 2020

DELEUZE, PARNET, REVOLUTION

Selected from: Deleuze and Parnet, Dialogues II. pp.141–147. “War is certainly not a metaphor. Like Félix, we assume that the war-machine has a nature and origin quite different from that of the apparatus of the State. The war-machine would have its origin among the nomadic shepherds, against the imperial sedentary…

Deleuze

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DELEUZE, PARNET, REVOLUTION
DELEUZE, PARNET, REVOLUTION
Deleuze

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Apr 25, 2020

From Ronald Bogue: Deleuze’s Intensity and Simondon’s Individuation

Directly from Ronald Bogue, Deleuze and Guattari (1989). Pages 61–63: “From the virtual to the actual: Individuation and the intensity That which effects the passage of the virtual into the actual is the intensity (or intensive quantity), whose essential activity is that of individuation. What Deleuze means by the intensity…

Deleuze

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From Ronald Bogue: Deleuze’s Intensity and Simondon’s Individuation
From Ronald Bogue: Deleuze’s Intensity and Simondon’s Individuation
Deleuze

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Apr 9, 2020

Deleuze on Morphology and the Assemblage

What follows is a long extract from Dialogues by Deleuze and Claire Parnet. “What must be compared in each case are the movements of deterritorialization and the processes of reterritorialization which appear in an assemblage. But what do they mean, these words which Félix invents to make them into variable…

Evolution

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Deleuze on Morphology and the Assemblage
Deleuze on Morphology and the Assemblage
Evolution

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Mar 5, 2020

Analytical Marxism: Historical Materialism and Cohen’s Grounding Thesis

What distinguishes Marxism from other theories of history is its emphasis on materialism. There are two distinct senses for the word materialism. Firstly, materialism is an ontological position on what exists. From the materialist perspective, only physical entities exist — there are no Gods, souls. Materialism as an ontological position…

Philosophy

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Analytical Marxism: Historical Materialism and Cohen’s Grounding Thesis
Analytical Marxism: Historical Materialism and Cohen’s Grounding Thesis
Philosophy

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