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Category Archives: Existentialism
Greg Johnson on Heidegger’s Black Notebooks
Greg Johnson (a reliably outstanding writer) weighs in on the recent publication of volume one of Heidegger’s Schwartze Hefte (Black Notesbooks): Now it appears that Heidegger also turned his attention to the Jewish question. Again, it is a mistake to … Continue reading
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In Defense of Heidegger
Of the so-called Heidegger Schwarzen Hefte (aka ‘Black Notebooks‘) recently published, Jonathan Rée writes: [I]t seems to me a remarkable piece of publicity-seeking on the part of the publisher, who hints that we may at last find the black heart … Continue reading
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Philosophy in ‘True Detective’
SPOILER ALERT: If you intend to watch the show, but haven’t yet, don’t read the rest of this post. I found the finale a bit disappointing, albeit, given the norms of the procedural TV genre and what might otherwise have … Continue reading
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Koans: De Botton
Alain De Botton writes: “Despair is really just a superior capacity for honesty about one’s own mediocrity.”
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True Detective
The new HBO series True Detective, which stars Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson, is outstanding. I began watching the series after reading this excellent analysis of the series, where the author points out the Lovecraftian and other American Gothic influences … Continue reading
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Heidegger’s ‘Black Notebooks’
Martin Heidegger’s philosophy centered around the increasing rootlessness, and subsequent alienation, endemic to modernity. Newly released Heidegger notebooks have ignited a debate over whether Heidegger was an anti-semite, when the real debate should center on Heidegger’s perspective on the ‘rootlessness’ … Continue reading
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Marooned In One’s Own Skull
David Foster Wallace, from an 1993 interview with The Review of Contemporary Fiction: I guess a big part of serious fiction’s purpose is to give the reader, who like all of us is sort of marooned in her own skull, … Continue reading
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Neanderthal Burials Confirmed as Ancient Ritual
What’s interesting about this archaeological determination is that, going this far back, our ancestors appear to have been cognizant of the concept of immanent mortality for all (aka death) and possibly also the conceptual construct of ‘post-death’ (aka an after-life.) … Continue reading
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Culture: The Denial of Death
From the Omni reboot, Jason Horsely writes: Sheldon Solomon and the Ernest Becker Foundation have provided plenty of compelling evidence for the idea that culture is a means by which humans deny death. Humans create culture as a way to … Continue reading
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Colin Wilson (1931 – 2013)
Colin Wilson, the prolific and eccentric writer on occult and other matters has died. At age 24, a precocious Wilson penned The Outsider (1956), a reimagining of classic existential-oriented literature and arts that made a big splash. It’s a decent … Continue reading
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