Critique of Cynical Reason by Peter Sloterdijk
This book was sitting down low on the pile of my chair's wide arm rest, it is a book i've tried a few times to read, as it is a Nietzschean book and is in some ways funny, it's done in a Diogenes way in response (i don't really understand, but like to use words that make it seem like i do) to Immanuel Kant.
Long ago i tried to read Kant, and it was darn well impossible, Nietzsche whom i genuinely enjoy had a fun way of thinking about him, and i remember the book Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance spoke alluringly about him, that understanding Kant, is like understanding how the mind functions. That doesn't make it easier for me at least. Now i'm coming back to this Sloterdijk volume having successfully completed a few novels and wanting to test out my reading muscles. I'll only read about an hour a day from it, it is about 550 pages, so i might be able to hopefully finish before my next order, could it sway me to buy differently? I am in a sense daring Peter, c'mon man, give me your best shot, PUNK!
So here as i go through it when i find a sentence that i find arresting or interesting will quote it on this post.
[quote]page xxxii PREFACE -- "Because everything has become problematic, everything is also somehow a matter of indifference" [/quote]
On one of my few replies to a post today, must have been about 10 hours ago, i referenced the doomed to repeat history argument, with a counter argument that it doesn't really matter motif, which here in this quote finds another form of expression etcetera ..... more to come if i can, i'm done my daily quota of Critical theory philosophical musings, it's much better than Kant, but not as fun as say Spengler, who i also haven't finished yet. Also related readings would be Musil's biggie, and Stirner's one hit wonder, which i did finish, but just barely, and could use a 2nd reading for sure, the Foreward to this present volume mentions Stirner kinda off handedly, like as if this shit goes way beyond that rudimentary balderdash.
[quote][b]xxxiv PREFACE -- "Cynicism ventures forth with naked truths that, in the way they are presented, contain something false."[/b]
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in context he's describing a lecture Adorno made while some of his feminine audience exposed their breasts.
Long ago i tried to read Kant, and it was darn well impossible, Nietzsche whom i genuinely enjoy had a fun way of thinking about him, and i remember the book Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance spoke alluringly about him, that understanding Kant, is like understanding how the mind functions. That doesn't make it easier for me at least. Now i'm coming back to this Sloterdijk volume having successfully completed a few novels and wanting to test out my reading muscles. I'll only read about an hour a day from it, it is about 550 pages, so i might be able to hopefully finish before my next order, could it sway me to buy differently? I am in a sense daring Peter, c'mon man, give me your best shot, PUNK!
So here as i go through it when i find a sentence that i find arresting or interesting will quote it on this post.
[quote]page xxxii PREFACE -- "Because everything has become problematic, everything is also somehow a matter of indifference" [/quote]
On one of my few replies to a post today, must have been about 10 hours ago, i referenced the doomed to repeat history argument, with a counter argument that it doesn't really matter motif, which here in this quote finds another form of expression etcetera ..... more to come if i can, i'm done my daily quota of Critical theory philosophical musings, it's much better than Kant, but not as fun as say Spengler, who i also haven't finished yet. Also related readings would be Musil's biggie, and Stirner's one hit wonder, which i did finish, but just barely, and could use a 2nd reading for sure, the Foreward to this present volume mentions Stirner kinda off handedly, like as if this shit goes way beyond that rudimentary balderdash.
[quote][b]xxxiv PREFACE -- "Cynicism ventures forth with naked truths that, in the way they are presented, contain something false."[/b]
[/quote]
in context he's describing a lecture Adorno made while some of his feminine audience exposed their breasts.
