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Category Archives: philosophy
Goethe-recognition FAIL
February 21, 2010 – 6:11 pm
Goethe in same room as unaware Hölderlin; hilarity ensues
Logic of post-modern thought
February 19, 2010 – 12:57 pm
The role played by “sympathy” in the middle ages, as Foucault develops it in The Order of Things, is today played by “contagion” (though we don’t know it).
Some support for Schumpeter
September 2, 2009 – 7:40 pm
The last book I read was Joseph Schumpeter’s Capitalism, Social, and Democracy, a book famous for coining the phrase “creative destruction” as a description of the process inherent to capitalism whereby old methods of production and commodities are incessantly obsolesced and replaced–an insight drawn, I believe, from Marx’s talk about capitalism constantly revolutionizing the means [...]