The Nexus Institute invited the speakers of the Nexus Conference How to Change the World to grant them a short interview. All speakers accepted and shared their valuable insights; one of them was the renowned Hungarian philosopher Agnes Heller (c) THE NEXUS INSTITUTE / youtube 2013
Archive for philosophy
On the Danger of Totalitarianism
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Agnes Heller, Hungary, interview, philosophy, Totalitarianism on 20 October 2013 by delclemLudwig Wittgenstein & ‘Fuzzy’ Photography
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Austria, Great Britain, Ludwig Wittgenstein, philosophy, photography, University of Cambridge on 11 September 2013 by delclem
“For the unsentimentally cerebral Wittgenstein, a photograph is not a memorial, but a ‘probability’. The philosopher’s archive at the University of Cambridge includes the photograph above, a true ‘probability’ in that it does not represent any one person but is a composite image of his face and the faces of his three sisters, made in collaboration with the ‘founding father of eugenics,’ Francis Galton.” (Well, I don’t buy the latter, since Galton dies in 1911…) >full text (c) OPEN CULTURE, 2013
‘Banality of Evil’ Revisited
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Adolf Eichmann, Banality of Evil, Germany, Hannah Arendt, Holocaust, National Socialism, philosophy, USA on 20 August 2013 by delclem
“Hannah Arendt employed this memorable phrase in both the subtitle and closing words of Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil, her book on the trial of Nazi lieutenant-colonel Adolf Eichmann. To Arendt’s mind, Eichmann willingly did his part to organize the Holocaust — and an instrumental part it was — out of neither anti-semitism nor pure malice, but out of a non-ideological, entirely more prosaic combination of careerism and obedience. Readers have argued ever since its publication about this characterization, and those with a special interest in how Arendt arrived there can find in the New Yorker‘s online archives the original series of “Eichmann in Jerusalem” articles out of which the book grew.”>full text
(c) OPEN CULTURE, 2013
Wittgenstein – The Duty of Genius
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Austria, biography, Great Britain, Ludwig Wittgenstein, philosophy, review on 17 July 2013 by delclem
“Assessing the life of a philosopher may be a writer’s greatest challenge – with few individuals do the spiritual and emotional realms play such a prominent role in moulding professional consequences. With that in mind, author Ray Monk sets off on a very specific quest in Ludwig Wittgenstein: Duty of Genius – to draw, where countless others have failed, an unbroken line between the work of the philosopher and the man himself.” >review (c) VIENNA REVIEW, 2013
Impact of the Frankfurt School
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Frankfurt School, Germany, Max Horkheimer, philosophy, Theodor W. Adorno on 17 April 2013 by delclem
Dated and overrated? “In the 1960s, the Frankfurt School’s argument – that most of culture helps to keep its audience compliant with capitalism – had an explosive impact. Arguably, it remains influential today.” >text/ audio (c) BBC RADIO 4, 2013
The “Banality of Evil” & Philosophy
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Adolf Eichmann, film, Germany, Hannah Arendt, Holocaust, Margarethe von Trotta, philosophy, Second World War, USA on 24 January 2013 by delclemThe new German film by Margarethe Trotta on the German American philosopher Hanna Arendt & the Holocuast organizer Adolf Eichmann is out. And Arendt’s original articles on the “Banality of Evil” are avialable in the New Yorker archive >text (c) OPEN CULTURE / FILM,HISTORY 2013
Wittgenstein in Ireland
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Austria, Great Britain, Ireland, Ludwig Wittgenstein, philosophy, UK on 21 October 2012 by delclem
The late Austrian British philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein spent the
last years of his life partly in Ireland. >chronicle >article
Peter Sloterdijk’s “Bubbles”
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Bubbles, ecology, environment, Germany, Peter Sloterdijk, philosophy, review on 21 August 2012 by delclem
“Bubbles is the first volume of Peter Sloterdijk‘s hugely ambitious and suggestive trilogy Spheres (1998-2004) to appear in English. Here he attempts nothing less than a metaphysical history of enclosed spaces, utopian or practical pods and domes, real and fantastical atmospheres or ecosystems.” Review (c) THE GUARDIAN 2012
Illustration: carpet by Margret Eicher Sloterdijk facing the Holy Inquisition of Trivial Taste
Free Pussy Riot !
Posted in Uncategorized with tags legal system, philosophy, Pussy Riot, Russia, Slavoj Žižek, Slovenia on 20 August 2012 by delclem
The True Blasphemy: a statement by the Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Žižek on the Pussy Riot trial (c) DANGEROUSMINDS.NET 2012
>Another text by the Nobel laureate Elfriede Jelinek (in German)
“The Borat of Philosophy”?
Posted in Uncategorized with tags philosophy, Slavoj Žižek, Slovenia on 12 June 2012 by delclem
Slavoj Žižek: “Humanity is OK, but 99% of people are boring idiots”
“A genius with the answers to the financial crisis? Or the Borat of philosophy? The cultural theorist talks about love, sex and why nothing is ever what it appears to be.” >Interview (c) THE GUARDIAN / G2, 2012; photo: David Levene
delirium clemens 