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Single Idea 8988
[filed under theme 1. Philosophy / H. Continental Philosophy / 1. Continental Philosophy
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Full Idea
Two tenets of classical Marxism have played a decisive role in French culture during our century: the theory of base and superstructure, and the concept of ideology.
Gist of Idea
Two marxist ideas have dominated in France: base and superstructure, and ideology
Source
Roger Scruton (Upon Nothing: Swansea lecture [1993], p.7)
Book Ref
Scruton,Roger: 'Upon Nothing' [University of Swansea 1993], p.6
A Reaction
It is striking how marxist attitudes permeate even the least political of French philosophical writings, to the point where you wonder if they are even aware of it any more. They largely have marxism and reaction, with liberalism passing them by.
The
19 ideas
with the same theme
[key shared characteristics of continental modern philosophy]:
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21984
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We must break up the rigidity that our understanding has imposed
[Hegel]
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22082
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Truth does not appear by asserting reasons and then counter-reasons
[Hegel]
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6904
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Modern philosophy begins with Descartes' abstraction from sensation and matter
[Feuerbach]
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6931
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Empiricism is right about ideas, but forgets man himself as one of our objects
[Feuerbach]
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21841
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We must create new words, and treat them as normal, and as if designating real things.
[Deleuze]
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21901
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'Difference' refers to that which eludes capture
[Deleuze, by May]
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7423
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Philosophy and politics are fundamentally linked
[Foucault]
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6841
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Some continental philosophers are relativists - Baudrillard, for example
[Baudrillard, by Critchley]
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8223
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The plague of philosophy is those who criticise without creating, and defend dead concepts
[Deleuze/Guattari]
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8988
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Two marxist ideas have dominated in France: base and superstructure, and ideology
[Scruton]
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7075
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To meet the division in our life, try the Subject, Nature, Spirit, Will, Power, Praxis, Unconscious, or Being
[Critchley]
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7069
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The French keep returning, to Hegel or Nietzsche or Marx
[Critchley]
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6835
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German idealism aimed to find a unifying principle for Kant's various dualisms
[Critchley]
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6837
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Since Hegel, continental philosophy has been linked with social and historical enquiry.
[Critchley]
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6836
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Continental philosophy fights the threatened nihilism in the critique of reason
[Critchley]
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6838
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Continental philosophy is based on critique, praxis and emancipation
[Critchley]
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6845
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Continental philosophy has a bad tendency to offer 'one big thing' to explain everything
[Critchley]
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6859
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Analytic philosophy has much higher standards of thinking than continental philosophy
[Williamson]
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21900
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Deleuze relies on Spinoza (immanence), Bergson (duration), and difference (Nietzsche)
[May]
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