Books The Next
posted by on May 22 at 17:22 PM
Because I made my comments quota for the month, I can dedicate my next posts to the only thing that really matters to me: philosophy. First, I will discuss Steven Shaviro’s recent essay on Alfred Whitehead’s God, and how that philosopher’s idea of God differs from Spinoza’s God. From the difference, Shaviro makes this astonishing claim: Whitehead wanted nothing less than the secularization of God. To grasp this claim, we must leave theology and travel to the realm of political philosophy. The end of that journey is an essay by Hannah Arendt: “Introduction to Politics.” In that essay we will find an excellent example of the secularization of God, and how this example is related to Alain Badiou’s leading concept: “the event.” To understand what an event is, we shall turn to Badiou’s most popular book in English, Ethics. The event, Arendt’s politics, and God in Spinoza and Whitehead will be the path. The target of the posts is to show how certain theological themes and concerns can have, without the loss of their aura (in the Benjaminian sense), a place (or substance) in a world that has no God (“the age of reality”) .
Ok.
Anyone who went to a two-bit grad school could weave up a wordy-ass bunch of shit like that, Charles. Now that we know the stink that is inside you, I could give a fuck.
Hey, all this poseur bullshit made me forget what an asshole you are!
Oh, it's about meeting a comment quota. Duly noted; and my response to future months' Mudede posts adjusted.
I continue to await The Stranger's explanation for this person's continued employment.
Wheeeeee!
Seeing as how every post of Charles' reaches a new level of pretentiousness, I look forward to seeing how he tops this one.
What place does a philosophy hack have at an alt weekly???
his only use was for Police Beat, and it's gone.
USE YOUR BUDGET ON PAYING SOMEBODY BETTER, DAN.
Did Charles give you a kidney or something?
MOVE ON. REPLACE REPLACE REPLACE.
You are still an embarrassment.
Tsk. If we didn't have Chaz to use as a punching bag, who else would fill the bill? Cyclists vs. cars, pit bulls, Youth Pastor Watch, Every Child Deserves..., etc., all have their place, but only Mudede really gets the hackles up. Double his pay!
Reading a Mudede post, any Mudede post, is like watching a homeless guy who is wearing an upside refrigerator box that with no eye holes in it hobble in front of the SLUT.
He cant walk very fast, as his pants are around his ankles, and the entire interior of the cardboard box is covered with scotch taped up Hustler Centerfolds.
Then, WHAM, he gets hit by the trolley.
3, 4, 5 times a day.
my mind, being a metaphor for my heart in the most literal sense, assuming of course that when we say "literal sense" we really mean "figurative sense", has officially (if not somewhat indifferently) been blown.
@11
LOL
Man. Charles outdid himself this time.
He doesn't mean it, guys. He's making fun of you making fun of him.
The man was a bit harsh, you yelled at him a bit, he explained his (perfectly rational) side, now set aside your differences and move on. Why he should be fired from slog is beyond me. Blunt, he may be, but there don't appear to be too many people whose main problem is that he's stupid or wrong. Just offensive.
Bring it on.
Whitehead and Arendt are hacks. Let's just go back to calling God a regulative idea and skip the hackery part.
Nice photo.
if you love philosophy most, why do you continue to ignore logic?
@19 - I'll go ahead and directly quote chas: "don't you dare challenge me again without reading my work closely."
logic can't be found by a closer reading of rubbish.
Huh, I didn't know philosophy was about posting pictures of half naked women all the time? Learn something new every day!
@ 22
word :)
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