#Sartre

Le niveau du débat sur Colbert aujourd'hui, surtout par des gens qui pensent avoir de la culture et donner des leçons aux autres alors qu'ils sont fiers de leur ignorance
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In my understanding, freedom implies the following idea: since we all live in the universe without a plan embedded in it, we ourselves must be the authors of our own
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Tillichiana: Tillich never had an existentialist turn, he was an existentialist idealist. He read Kierkegaard as a student, Nietzsche as a grad student, Schelling all the time, was always a
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The transgender medical experiment will be recalled as one of those grand delusions that appear every now and then in history; a mass delusion that kidnaps the minds of people
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"Aujourd’hui, maman est morte. Ou peut-être hier, je ne sais pas." Vous connaissez l’incipit célèbre de "l’Etranger" de Camus ? Mais saviez-vous que les grands noms de la critique (Sartre,
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Though I differ with @BaskinJon piece on A Hidden Life—for starters, it makes no aesthetic distinction between Malick's style there and his other recent features—I'm honored to be mentioned and
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This article is worth reading for its firsthand account of the people involved in the fascist uprising, but this particular detail really struck me. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/01/25/among-the-insurrectionists This characterizat
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Today was the final session of our 'Adventures of the Postcolonial' seminar with Aijaz Ahmad. At the end of what (for me) turned out to be one of the most
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The "marketplace of ideas" is at best an extremely strained metaphor and at worst a completely misleading one. Arguably the key feature of the actual marketplace is completely absent in
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THE EGO IS THE ENEMY>>//THREAD//
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Neverending Story just starting on BBC1. Inexplicably-heartbreaking 80s kid film fantasy fun. Cracking theme song, too. It opens with a forlorn conversation about a dead mum. That's how little it
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lenin's critique of the second international was that it took the tactic of parliamentarism and turned it into an end in itself. over time, as they kept being reelected and
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It’s sort of surprising how rare it is given the prevalence of the tactic in practice, but it truly is rare: here’s someone just flatly laying out exactly the sort
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On the phrase "cultural Marxism"@antisempolicy has a published pamphlet: "Cultural Marxism: An Antisemitic Conspiracy Theory?"It is an interesting pamphlet, because it somewhat equivocal on the issue - hence the question
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one thing chomsky and marxists get right: there are no more skilled ideologists for the ruling class, whose job it is to manufacture consent for the racist, classist status quo
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These chuds were parading around a noose and chanting "Murder the Media" - by which they mean him and his colleagues! - and he's so deep in his bubble of
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