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I love Goethe’s concept of the Urphänomen:
‘...the Urphänomen marks for Goethe the point where the observer is still in contact with what he observes, and beyond which the real relationship between a human being and an object of nature ceases, with the object no longer being what it is and the human mind establishing itself as a subjective tyrant...’
— May 15, 2021 02:43PM
‘...the Urphänomen marks for Goethe the point where the observer is still in contact with what he observes, and beyond which the real relationship between a human being and an object of nature ceases, with the object no longer being what it is and the human mind establishing itself as a subjective tyrant...’
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'Experience is to the empiricist what the sand is to the ostrich's head...Uncertainty alone is ineluctably real.'
— Jun 29, 2021 10:24AM
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Nicht Gott, nur alles leugn' ich, was ihn leugnet, Und wenn er will, ist alles wunderbar.
The satirist Karl Kraus brought to life a world whose every breath was a denial of God's designs, and was the chaos that decided that His will should not be done.
— Jun 29, 2021 10:05AM
The satirist Karl Kraus brought to life a world whose every breath was a denial of God's designs, and was the chaos that decided that His will should not be done.
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On Karl Kraus:
'His work is untranslatable....
This rare fusion of spontaneity and subtlety, of ethical integrity and intellectual complexity, he [Karl Kraus] shares...with Kierkegaard and, in modern German literature, only with Franz Kafka.'
I love Karl Kraus.
— Jun 28, 2021 12:30PM
'His work is untranslatable....
This rare fusion of spontaneity and subtlety, of ethical integrity and intellectual complexity, he [Karl Kraus] shares...with Kierkegaard and, in modern German literature, only with Franz Kafka.'
I love Karl Kraus.
r0b
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On Karl Kraus:
'His work is untranslatable....
This rare fusion of spontaneity and subtlety, of ethical integrity and intellectual complexity, he [Karl Kraus] shares...with Kierkegaard and, in modern German literature, only with Franz Kafka.'
— Jun 28, 2021 12:29PM
'His work is untranslatable....
This rare fusion of spontaneity and subtlety, of ethical integrity and intellectual complexity, he [Karl Kraus] shares...with Kierkegaard and, in modern German literature, only with Franz Kafka.'
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'Oswald Spengler believed that he had found the new centre of gravity for history...
The problem was present right at the beginning of modern historical thought. Vico knew it, and, of course, Herder...For the purely empiricist concept of history is hopelessly spoilt as soon as the question of meaning or pattern is raised.'
— Jun 15, 2021 09:57PM
The problem was present right at the beginning of modern historical thought. Vico knew it, and, of course, Herder...For the purely empiricist concept of history is hopelessly spoilt as soon as the question of meaning or pattern is raised.'
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‘Heidegger...is said to have remarked that his philosophy is merely the unfolding in thought of what Rilke has expressed poetically...’
— Jun 06, 2021 01:11PM
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‘It [writing poetry] is the difficulty of translating spiritual convictions into living convictions.’
— Jun 05, 2021 11:27AM
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‘...the denial of pain means the denial of existence. Existence is pain, and joy lies not in non-existence, as Schopenhauer would have it, but in its tragic transfiguration.’
— Jun 01, 2021 11:50PM
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‘We shall come to see Rilke as the St. Francis of the Will to Power.‘
— May 31, 2021 10:19PM
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Karl Löwith does a very interesting job of tying this concept together to Hegel's Phenomenology - his intellectual history of Germany in the 19th century begins with Goethe and Hegel as typifying the stance that opens this period. FWIW I think this is quite right, and an important point of connection.
Barnaby wrote: "Karl Löwith does a very interesting job of tying this concept together to Hegel's Phenomenology - his intellectual history of Germany in the 19th century begins with Goethe and Hegel as typifying t..."Thanks, I was able to download his Meaning in History but I guess I’ll have to wait for our ILL system to reopen to borrow his Hegel to Nietzsche (I’m assuming you’re referring to that one?).
👍 I look forward to reading it!