I was tempted to ask if anyone still reads Being and Nothingness. But of course no one ever actually read Being and Nothingness. — Banno
I was tempted to ask if anyone still reads Being and Nothingness. But of course no one ever actually read Being and Nothingness. — Banno
There are videos of Derrida just saying he was a bad philosopher, and Heidegger apparently thought he was an idiot. — Snakes Alive
The most famous things he said and wrote are ugly things. — ZzzoneiroCosm
With Sartre it is like with Freud, everyone abominates them, but everyone uses concepts like bad faith, condemned to be free, hell is the others, etc. that have come from Sartre. There must be be a reason for that. — David Mo
Who else has so fallen from grace?
— Banno — emancipate
Who else has so fallen from grace? — Banno
I'd struggled all the way to the end of BnN 1.5x (on my own, not for a class) during my first year at university. The ordeal had left me respecting but hating that old wall-eyed, boujee-comrade. :sweat:I was tempted to ask if anyone still reads Being and Nothingness. But of course no one ever actually read Being and Nothingness. — Banno
M. Merleau-PontyOdd, that someone of his status should be so forgotten.
Who else has so fallen from grace? — Banno
Even some who found themselves on those peaks at the beginning of the 20th century ended up being thrown down the mountain. Something very sinister appears to have happened to so called analytic philosophy after WWII.Every philosopher who does not enter the Olympus of Anglo-Saxon philosophy.
What is your answer? Why is he forgotten?Odd, that someone of his status should be so forgotten. — Banno
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