btw, where did you get all these uncanny stuffs? are they in later parts of the book? i am planning on doing a research on surrealism and thai comics, and i think that might be useful.Quoting Melville (view post)
btw, where did you get all these uncanny stuffs? are they in later parts of the book? i am planning on doing a research on surrealism and thai comics, and i think that might be useful.Quoting Melville (view post)
"Over analysis is like the oil of the Match-Cut machine." KK2.0
It's inspired by Heidegger's Introduction to Metaphysics.Quoting lovejuice (view post)
EDIT: but my description of the Here and Now in terms of a trace, and the relation of that to the uncanny, is to the best of my knowledge, my own idea. Of course, it's presumably been analyzed as such before, but not by anybody I've read (I think).
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Observation of Nature (AA.A.a) in PHENOMENOLOGY is freaking tough! I read the chapter over and over along with its accompanied text, and very little gets into my head.
I also have this nagging feeling it's not that good or that central. bias on my part, no doubt.
Btw, Melville, I assume you read the version with Finlay's accompanied text. What do you think of it? There are certains paragraphes I feel like he takes too much liberty with Hegel's. I still can't survive this book without them though.
"Over analysis is like the oil of the Match-Cut machine." KK2.0
about to finish REASON, guess i agree with Marx afterall. Hegel really needs to be put right back on his feet.
"Over analysis is like the oil of the Match-Cut machine." KK2.0
Yeah, the endnotes are a mixed bag. I didn't use them a lot. I found some of the notes just as obscure as the text, some too simplistic. Must be a damn hard job to try to give a full explanation of what Hegel is saying without simply restating it or oversimplifying it.Quoting lovejuice (view post)
25 pages further than I ever got. I'll have to review these sections when I start on the later ones.Quoting lovejuice (view post)
I am impatient of all misery in others that is not mad. Thou should'st go mad, blacksmith; say, why dost thou not go mad? How can'st thou endure without being mad? Do the heavens yet hate thee, that thou can'st not go mad?
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My advice would be to start with Plato. If you want to understand much of what has been written, then you will have to understand Plato. Aside from that, I would recommend picking up some logic if you haven't already done so. If you're a masochist and want to plunge into Hegel, Fichte comes to mind as a bridge to his ideas. Hegel's use of the thesis-antithesis-synthesis was "borrowed" from Fichte. If existentialism interests you, then Nietzsche and Kierkegaard are good place to start, as their ideas paved the way for Heidegger and Sartre.
The Red Shoes (Powell, 1948)
Manhattan Murder Mystery (Allen, 1993)
Spring Breakers (Korine, 2012)
Sydney (Anderson, 1996)
El ángel exterminador (Luis Buñuel, 1963)
which book specifically? i've never read any greek, I am ashamed to say. (except Aristotle on Meteologie.)Quoting endingcredits (view post)
"Over analysis is like the oil of the Match-Cut machine." KK2.0
The Apology, The Republic, or Parmenides would be my recommendations. You can read all three in a day's time if you wish, as they are short. Apology and Republic exemplify Early and Middle Platonic thought, respectively. Parmenides mostly deals with the ubiquitous "forms".Quoting lovejuice (view post)
EDIT:
The whole library of plato can be found here :
http://classics.mit.edu/Plato/
The Red Shoes (Powell, 1948)
Manhattan Murder Mystery (Allen, 1993)
Spring Breakers (Korine, 2012)
Sydney (Anderson, 1996)
El ángel exterminador (Luis Buñuel, 1963)
The Republic isn't short dude.Quoting endingcredits (view post)
The Meno and Phaedo are fairly standard short starting places also.
The Princess and the Pilot - B-
Playtime (rewatch) - A
The Hobbit - C-
The Comedy - D+
Kings of the Road - C+
The Odd Couple - B
Red Rock West - C-
The Hunger Games - D-
Prometheus - C
Tangled - C+
OK... then perhaps two days is more accurate.Quoting Qrazy (view post)
The Red Shoes (Powell, 1948)
Manhattan Murder Mystery (Allen, 1993)
Spring Breakers (Korine, 2012)
Sydney (Anderson, 1996)
El ángel exterminador (Luis Buñuel, 1963)
I bow to you, sir.Quoting endingcredits (view post)
"Over analysis is like the oil of the Match-Cut machine." KK2.0
whoa! this zizek guy is brilliant.
"Over analysis is like the oil of the Match-Cut machine." KK2.0
Which book of his are you reading? I read On Belief a few years back and it was pretty stale. Never went back for more.Quoting lovejuice (view post)
The Red Shoes (Powell, 1948)
Manhattan Murder Mystery (Allen, 1993)
Spring Breakers (Korine, 2012)
Sydney (Anderson, 1996)
El ángel exterminador (Luis Buñuel, 1963)
I'm reading his first the sublime object of ideology. I find it wonderful and topical to what's happening right now in my country. Two years ago I read the metastases of enjoyment, but back then a lot of it go over my head.Quoting endingcredits (view post)
"Over analysis is like the oil of the Match-Cut machine." KK2.0
Just started Foucault's Madness & Civilization, interesting so far.
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Not as cerebral but I highly recommend "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance" by Robert M. Pirsig.
PS also the book that inspired that book's title "Zen and the Art of Archery".
every year I plan to achieve one heroism to be forever sung by my children. last year was the rubik. this year is phenomenology of spirit!
"Over analysis is like the oil of the Match-Cut machine." KK2.0
Sein und Zeit is surprisingly easy to chew. Heidegger, if he were alive, would surely be a powerpoint master. The book is well-structured. The introduction neatly outlines the main idea, and every section and sub-section serve well to progress the idea and argument forward.
"Over analysis is like the oil of the Match-Cut machine." KK2.0
So I kinda randomly dove into Kierkegaard after hearing about a close friend's battle with ethical structure and her subsequent desire to revert back to Christianity, I'm reading The Sickness Unto Death right now, and doing plenty of complimentary reading. I'm not certain I'll stick with him long since I find the general premise of being in constant despair simply because you lack a relationship with God to be specious at best. Granted, I acknowledge he often speaks from the point of view of his ultra-religious pseudonym whom he acknowledges is better than him in that regard, I still find it a bit hard to swallow, even just as pure literature.
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Given your lack of connection to religious thoughts, I wouldn't have recommended that for a first foray into Kierkegaard. Books like Fear and Trembling, Either/Or, and Repetition are a lot more interesting on purely structural and literary levels. But I think Sickness Unto Death can be read without dwelling on the religious aspects. The central premise is that despair is a dislocation of the relation of oneself to oneself, and his exploration of that premise has great phenomenological value—that is, it gives valuable descriptions of how things are, our actual experience of states of human existence. He relates those descriptions to God, but you can often (though not always) simply excise such a relation from his descriptions or translate God into something more general. As with many of his other works (Concept of Anxiety springs to mind), he lays a groundwork for later, more fleshed out existential descriptions by Sartre and others, which ditched the religious aspect but kept many of the core concepts.Quoting Brightside (view post)
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I'll definitely check those out, then. I spent a few hours yesterday researching the concepts you told me to familiarize myself with, like, two years ago.:P I need to do more reading on Plato's Theory of Forms -- as well as in the original text -- since I don't feel like I can speak about it knowingly, if that makes sense.Quoting Melville (view post)
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See, this sounds like a much more interesting Kierkegaard than the one I was exposed to. Then again, these things likely come to one after reading more than a dozen pages of one of his books.Quoting Stanford Encyclopedia
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Holy shit, this sounds fantastic. And fits so much of the cinema I enjoy.
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