{"id":751,"date":"2021-01-26T14:57:43","date_gmt":"2021-01-26T22:57:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/alteritas\/?p=751"},"modified":"2021-03-03T22:02:36","modified_gmt":"2021-03-04T06:02:36","slug":"the-barbers-ferry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/alteritas\/2021\/01\/26\/the-barbers-ferry\/","title":{"rendered":"The Barber’s Ferry"},"content":{"rendered":"

Notes on Wolfram\u00a0Eilenberger, Zeit der Zauberer, Das gro\u00dfte Jahrzehnt der Philosophie 1919-1929:\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

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https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Barber_paradox<\/a><\/p>\n

Reading Eilenberger’s Zeit der Zauberer. In the chapter on the vagaries of the lives of Wittgenstein, Benjamin, Heidegger and Cassirer in 1919, there’s not a single ref to the Kansas aka Spanish influenza, whence 2 1\/2 times more died than in WW1.<\/p>\n

Heidegger’s and Derrida’s rhetoric is a classic self-conscious case of the very undeterminacy thet invoke, carefully constructed word games, verbal traps which “capture” thought and thus are persuasive of the assertion that all language is a trap. Thisxrhetoric is itself a trap.<\/p>\n

There is something of “wokeness” about Heidegger’s conviction that he was erwacht<\/i>.<\/p>\n

Heidegger compared to Wittgenstein (104-105)<\/p>\n

“War ist, Cassirer hat eine tiefe Verankerung in die Kultur der universit\u00e4ten Phlosophie nie als Eischr\u00e4nkung oder gar entfremdende Verstelleng empfunden\u201d (p \u00a0125).<\/p>\n

Das zentrale gedanke von Cassirers Projekt besteht in eer Tat in der Einsicht, dass das, was wir den \u201cmenschlichen Geist\u201d nennen, \u201cerst in seiner Au\u00dferung zu seiner wahrhaften und vollkommenen Innenlichkeit gelangt. Die Form, die sich da Innere gibt, steimmt auch r\u00fcckwirkend sein Wesen une seinen Gehalt” (p 128). \/\/ The central idea of Cassirer’s project is in fact the insight that what we call the \u201chuman spirit\u201d \u201conly comes to its true and perfect interiority when it is expressed. The form that is given inside also retroactively changes its essence and content “(p 128).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Nicht unser geist richtet sich demnach nach den Gesetzen der Dinge, sondern die Dinge sich nach den Gesetzen unseres Geistes (p 129). \/ Accordingly, it is not our minds that follow the laws of things, but things that follow the laws of our minds (p 129).<\/p>\n

Cassirer nennt diese angenomne Form am Grunde aller Sprachen die \u201creine Sprachform\u201d (p 134 – viz Chomsky)\u2026. Als Cassirer sich tiefer und tiefer in die vorliegenden sprachwissenschaftlichen Studieum vertieft wird ihm die tragende Grundannnahme seines Projeks zweifelhaft (p 134).<\/p>\n

On November 8, 1923, things came to a head in Munich\u2019s B\u00fcrgerbr\u00e4ukeller when Adolf Hitler, protected by a large shock troop of his AS militia, interrupted a speech of von Kahr\u2019s by firing a shot into the ceiling, forcing him to flee the hall, and\u2014following the glorious example of Mussolini and his Fascist movement in Italy\u2014called on the crowd to \u201cmarch on the capital\u201d the next day.<\/p>\n

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What the philosopher Cassirer wanted: Cast off your anxiety as creative cultural beings, liberate yourself from your original constraints and limitations.<\/span><\/p>\n

What the philosopher Cassirer wanted: Cast off your anxiety as creative cultural beings, liberate yourself from your original constraints and limitations.<\/span><\/p>\n

— Eilenberger, p 333<\/span><\/p>\n

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https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/9db1fbc4-1bc2-11e3-94a3-00144feab7de<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/9db1fbc4-1bc2-11e3-94a3-00144feab7de<\/p>\n

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Time of the Magicians by Wolfram Eilenberger review \u2013 philosophy’s great decade?<\/span><\/p>\n

Time of the Magicians by Wolfram Eilenberger review \u2013 philosophy’s great decade?<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Notes on Wolfram\u00a0Eilenberger, Zeit der Zauberer, Das gro\u00dfte Jahrzehnt der Philosophie 1919-1929:\u00a0 * https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Barber_paradox Reading Eilenberger’s Zeit der Zauberer. In the chapter on the vagaries of the lives of Wittgenstein, Benjamin, Heidegger and Cassirer in 1919, there’s not a single ref to the Kansas aka Spanish influenza, whence 2 1\/2 times more died than in … <\/p>\n

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