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YouTube video by Jason W Blakely Charles Taylor's Groundbreaking Explanation of "Secular"

Professor Blakely made another great video cut of Charles Taylor explaining secularism and the immanent frame. If you’re interested in that, it’s useful to catch Blakely’s note in the comments, too.

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YouTube video by Hermitix Podcast Thomas Mann's Doctor Faustus with Steve Dowden and John Burt

An excellent companion to the EI piece.

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The magic of Thomas Mann The great German author's masterpiece, The Magic Mountain, published a century ago, allows the reader to see upheavals not as signs of sickness, but as the first steps towards recovery.

“The great German author's masterpiece, The Magic Mountain, published a century ago, allows the reader to see upheavals not as signs of sickness, but as the first steps towards recovery.”
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Mail. Finally got a hard copy of this great book.

More today and they were horrible. The biggest so far.

Back to the wake up at 5:30 grind tomorrow… pray for me…

Phenomenology Friday

Do you know anyone who just can’t ever be serious and goes even further by being lewd all time?

earthquake…
I’m so tired of this…

Yep, there’s the heathen mountain salad. lol

I think the name of that mountain means “heathen mountain”.

Goon: “a man hired to terrorize or eliminate opponents” (Merriam-Webster)

That’s essentially what they are.

Absolutely. It’s a sign of societal death spiral when you have goon enforcers like this running around. Very dystopian.

Seriously, what’s with the face masks? They look like Wagner mercenaries. And they’ve been wearing them since this all started, even in the summer. It’s not like they need to hide their identities.

To all: Have you read this? Do you recommend?

newly added to my fin de siècle literature

As for AI, Butlerian Jihad!

I just ordered a big grocery delivery for my elderly parents who are on the other side of the country and are about to get snowed in by a huge blizzard. Tech can be good.

Nice that it’s open access!

Mail.

I have very anxiously been awaiting this. I’m fascinated by the behavioral phenomenon of trying to “escape from the world”, to avoid a certain kind of life, the impulse to introvert oneself. It is more this and less the people here I am interested in. Stagg is keen on this and great writer.

The appendices of “The Crisis” are nice little supplements. The translator’s introduction to Experience and Judgement bridges Husserl and Merleau-Ponty on the lifeworld and perception. Dan Zahavi’s Husserl’s Phenomenology is also short and brilliant. Sokolowski himself is a distillation of Husserl.

It is essentially a critique of modernity but going further as a critique of civilization itself from a scientistic anthropology of Pleistocene humanity.

Mail.

I just heard about this book recently and thought it would be fun to put in dialogue with Rosa’s Social Acceleration.

My bookmark of choice for this reading because it reminds me of Proust’s La Recherche.

Of course Goethe had something to say about this.

Are you still getting that fog that was in the valley for weeks?

I just released a revised and expanded edition of my book, and it’s still a very reasonable price for paperback or kindle. History of form theories, from Aristotle to Goethe to Merleau-Ponty and quite a few others who came in-between.

Many times have I walked this street.

Enter Charles Taylor and “resonance”.

Mail.

This will be the first book by Harmut Rosa that I read and I am eagerly looking forward to it.

Instead too many people are left spending too much of their lives having to fudge around and find out; constantly trying to escape the crab bucket of their toxic environments and their own toxic egos.