-the attempt to fuse the public and private lies behind Plato’s attempt to answer the q “Why is it in one’s interest to be just?” and Christianity’s claim that perfect self-realization can be attained through service to others. [capitalism proposes the invisible hand, soc – class consciousness and state-sanctioned ideology, Rorty’s vision – soc demo and metaphors]
Books of Interest
Notes on "Contingency, irony, and solidarity" by Richard Rorty (1989)
- Written by Eric Walberg Эрик Вальберг/ Уолберг إيريك والبرغ
Notes on "Ecology of Freedom" by Murray Bookchin (1982)
- Written by Eric Walberg Эрик Вальберг/ Уолберг إيريك والبرغ
-ecology - 19th c term - investigation of interrelationships between animals, plants, and their inorganic environment - dynamic balance of nature, interdependence of living and nonliving things. vs environmentalism (natural engineering)
-social ecology - dialectical unfolding of life-forms from simple to complex. (history of phenomenon is the phenomenon itself) human-made universe is 'second nature'. society = institutionalized communities. philosophy of evolution. must synthesize these 2 natures into a 3rd. process of achieving wholeness by means of unity thru diversity, complementarity (vs homogeneous monocultural oneness of cap).Notes on "The Misfits: a study of sexual outsiders" by Colin Wilson (1987)
- Written by Eric Walberg Эрик Вальберг/ Уолберг إيريك والبرغ
-x preferred schoolgirls because less complicated, less real than adult women, as dream less complicated than reality.
paradox of sex - always seems to be offering more than it can deliver.Notes on "Running on emptiness" by John Zerzan (2001)
- Written by Eric Walberg Эрик Вальберг/ Уолберг إيريك والبرغ
Time and its discontents
-Latin words for culture = agriculture/ domestication AND translation from Greek terms for spatial image of time. We are 'time-binders', creating a symbolic class of life, an artificial world -> control over nature. Time becomes real because it has consequences. Flow of time 'the distinction between what one needs and what one has, the incipience of regret' (Guyau (1890) Carpe diem, but civ(ilization) forces us to mortgage the present to the future.
Notes on "Tales of love and darkness" by Amos Oz (2003)
- Written by Eric Walberg Эрик Вальберг/ Уолберг إيريك والبرغ
-worldatlarge dangerous and threatening. It didn't like the Jews (Js) because they were clever, quick-witted, successful, but also because they were noisy and push. It didn't like what we were doing here in the Land of Israel either, because it begrudged us even this meager strip of marshland, boulders, and desert. Out there in the world all the walls were covered with graffiti: yids, go back to Palestine, so we came back to Palestine and now the worldatlarge shouts at us: Yids, get out of Palestine.
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