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On one’s education…
“…yesterday I got a regular eye-opener. The trouble with modern education is you never know how ignorant people are. With anyone over fifty you can be fairly confident what’s been taught and what’s been left out. But these young people have such an intelligent, knowledgeable surface, and then the crust suddenly breaks and you look…
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Derrida on response & non-philosophers
Thinking the beyond, the impossible, is the experience of the aporia. This is… …not necessarily a failure or a simple paralysis, the sterile negativity of the impasse. It is neither stopping at it [the aporia, NdB] nor overcoming it. (When someone suggests to you a solution for escaping an impasse, you can almost be sure…
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To Think…
To think is to question everything, including thought, and question, and the process. To question requires that something happens that reason has not yet known. Non-Western traditions of thought have a quite different attitude. What counts in their manner of questioning is not at all to determine the reply as soon as possible, to seize and exhibit some object which…
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What if all first pages would sound like this?
What value is, what sure is, what man is, these questions are taken to be dangerous and shut away again pretty fast. It is said that they open the way to ‘anything goes’, ‘anything is possible’, ‘all is worthless’. Look, they add, what happens to the ones who go beyond this limit: Nietzsche taken hostage…
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Academic life…
“…the customary academic suspicion of anything that is not guaranteed to be mediocre…” ~ Hannah Arendt