Why is Trebbor-Bongo always begging for help?
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dbentley666 — 8 months ago(July 30, 2025 04:10 AM)
Good god, I forgot Adorno! Definitely one of my heroes. I've learned more from Adorno than from Heidegger. Hegel is a very great philosopher, and I think his Phenomenology of Spirit is one of the most influential texts ever written, but I think Nietzsche does a great hatchet job on much of Hegel.
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LivingDeadBoy
️ — 8 months ago(July 30, 2025 04:26 AM)I like Adorno better than Heidegger as well. But I actually knew what he was talking about because I took the time to read him, unlike Heidegger. I read a little of Heidegger and then read a book explaining his ideas rather than actually trudging through myself. I never felt that trusting of him. Always regarded him with some suspicion even though many people say he's such an incredible thinker, deeper than Hegel, etc.
I agreed with Nietzsches Hegel criticisms BEFORE I read Hegel. I had a vague familiarity with Hegels ideas for many years but didn't like his conclusions and was afraid to read him. Just had an automatic dislike for a while. I liked Nietzsche and Deleuze criticisms of Hegel and I preferred Spinoza to Hegel. I always knew Hegel was "right" or at least unable to be proven "wrong" in my gut though, so I finally read him after reading through books that explained his peculiar terminology. I already knew his historical background and who he was replying to and to an extent building on "Kant, Schelling".
Hegel still blows my mind to this day. Hegel was like this demonic super intelligence. I think the only other person I've read that blew my mind with how far they were willing to stretch the limits of thought was Derrida. But he was more the anti Hegel..
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dbentley666 — 8 months ago(July 30, 2025 04:35 AM)
I'd say Heidegger is still important, very important, because he was one of the first (following Nietzsche, of course) to argue quite seriously that humankind was digging itself into a deep pit, as a result of its forgetfulness of Being. He was, in a sense, the ancestor of all the modern cynics and environmental pessimists (including me) who think we took a wrong turn some centuries ago, either through our embrace of technology or (more worryingly) through our embrace of a a Socratic rationality that displaces the balanced Apollonian-Dionysian philosophy of the pre-Socratics (both Nietzsche and Heidegger argue this). Hegel, on the other hand, seems to be the philosopher of a more optimistic modernity, the philosopher of growth and progress. I ilke his Phenomenology, as I said, largely because I understand it through Kojeve's critique of the Master-Slave sections. Hegel does what Marx fails to do: theorise the importance of status-seeking rather than straightforward materialism.
Adorno is very great as a cultural critic, as one who recommends great art as an antidote to the ills of modernity. In that sense, Charles Taylor is his contemporary disciple, especially in Cosmic Connections. Ihaven't read Spinoza closely, alas; something I must rectify.
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LivingDeadBoy
️ — 8 months ago(July 30, 2025 04:56 AM)I'd be interested in actually reading what Heidegger has to say about technology, specifically right now with the increases in AI. I have more of a luddite attitude about technology.
Yeah I wouldnt want to teach Derrida to anyone either! Or Hegel. Ive tried explaining Hegel to some friends irl and they just zone out like I'm speaking Chinese.
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dbentley666 — 8 months ago(July 30, 2025 05:03 AM)
I only taught "Structure, Sign and Play" but that was enough! I had less of a problem with Kristeva, Lacan and Butler, maybe because I find psychoanalysis more congenial than deconstruction….
I've used Hegel's Phenomenology with students, and they loved it….
Heidegger has an essay called The Question of Technology. But you can also get a sense of what he thinks from Being and Time… -
LivingDeadBoy
️ — 8 months ago(July 30, 2025 05:16 AM)I'll read The Question of Technology. I watched a YouTube video that broke it down, many years ago, but I forgot mostly everything.
Being and Time, too much right now. I own it though. Didn't get far. Haven't touched it since 2016.
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dbentley666 — 8 months ago(July 30, 2025 05:19 AM)
LivingDeadBoy
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I'll read The Question of Technology. I watched a YouTube video that broke it down, many years ago, but I forgot mostly everything.
Being and Time, too much right now. I own it though. Didn't get far. Haven't touched it since 2016.
Question of Technology is oddly unsatisfying (to me). Heidegger seems to want to pull his punches. Being and Time is much better, and I found it surprisingly easy to read. Much easier than Sartre's Being and Nothingness, for instance. -
sheetsadam1 — 8 months ago(July 30, 2025 03:58 AM)
Bach, Beethoven, Handel, Schubert, Goethe, Schiller, Thomas Mann, Rilke, Hesse, Kafka: all heroes of mine.
Nazis are a big no-no.
Marx, Engels, Neu!, Döblin, Fritz Lang, Sophie, Hildegard of Bingen, von Steuben.
Yes, Germans are ****ing rad!
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TaraDeS — 8 months ago(July 30, 2025 03:41 AM)
sheetsadam1 July 30, 2025 05:37 AM
Member since April 22, 2025
Germans are great! Fuck Nazis though.
Now this idiot sock with the Nazi fetish again, who wasn't even able to digest the wolf video.
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sheetsadam1 — 8 months ago(July 30, 2025 03:45 AM)
Oh, sorry. I saw that notification the other day and never got around to watching it. I will though! I was finishing an absolute masterpiece of a German novel actually (in translation).
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TaraDeS — 8 months ago(July 30, 2025 03:39 AM)
dbentley666 July 30, 2025 05:35 AM
Member since June 11, 2018
I know many good Germans. You are one of the insane ones. You need medical help.
You don't know any German for real.
And now the typical Filmboards insult
"medical help"
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I'll change for now to another site.
More dbently666 bs will pollute Filmboards the next hours, already drove many good posters away.
Congrats for boring people away, you're a true boredom champ.
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dbentley666 — 8 months ago(July 30, 2025 03:46 AM)
I thought you were leaving? Why do retards find my threads so compelling? You always outstay your welcome. As if some supernatural force is keeping you here against your will. Poor Ash stayed for hours in one of my threads, despite saying she was very sleepy and bored….
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TaraDeS — 8 months ago(July 30, 2025 03:50 AM)
dbentley666 July 30, 2025 05:46 AM
Member since June 11, 2018
I thought you were leaving? Why do retards find my threads so compelling? You always outstay your welcome. As if some supernatural force is keeping you here against your will. Poor Ash stayed for hours in one of my threads, despite saying she was very sleepy and bored….
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Trebbor — 8 months ago(July 30, 2025 04:12 AM)
You said you were leaving, but now you're still here, constantly BEGGING for attention.
Is that a 1) desperate search for purpose and meaning or 2) just dishonesty and the constant desire to annoy everyone around you like a common everyday asshole with a bullhorn?
Bentley is a walking, talking premature ejaculation of desperation & stupidity.