Plagiarised Thoughts

by Jake Goldsmith

Plagiarised Essays, Quotes, Notes, Aphorisms and Mediocre Philosophical Reflections; is a work pertaining to the nature of the study of philosophy, the cognition behind theology and religion (in a wonted, typically derisive vein), cognitive science and evolutionary psychology, literary theory, environmentalism, absurdism, cosmology, critiques of existentialism, Dostoyevsky, Schopenhauer, Albert Camus, Russell, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, aesthetics and the nature of cliché, psychoanalysis and Ernest Becker, psychiatry, Foucault, sociology, semiotics, quietism, the philosophy of politics, music, the function of institutions in relation to the study of philosophy, Roland Barthes, and the nature of revolt in history. It is, of course, highly opinionated. But neutrality is not objectivism. The work is a sporadic discourse, rife with emotional contention, polemical tendency, heretical apparatus and anti-Utopian repetition. In spite of that, a cause of pride is that the work does not, despite tone, act prophetically or with dogmatic insistence – it is a verse of venting for one's one sake. To write for oneself [c.f. Montaigne].