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Single Idea 7069
[filed under theme 1. Philosophy / H. Continental Philosophy / 1. Continental Philosophy
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Full Idea
French philosophy since the 1930s might be described as a series of returns: to Hegel (in Kojčve and early Sartre), to Nietzsche (in Foucault and Deleuze), or to Marx (in Althusser).
Gist of Idea
The French keep returning, to Hegel or Nietzsche or Marx
Source
Simon Critchley (Continental Philosophy - V. Short Intro [2001], Ch.2)
Book Ref
Critchley,Simon: 'Continental Philosophy - Very Short Intro' [OUP 2001], p.16
A Reaction
An interesting map. The question might be why they return to those three, rather than (say) Hume or Leibniz. If the choice of which one you return to a matter of 'taste' (as Nietzsche would have it)?
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from Simon Critchley
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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
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7067
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Food first, then ethics
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7068
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If infatuation with science leads to bad scientism, its rejection leads to obscurantism
[Critchley]
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7069
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The French keep returning, to Hegel or Nietzsche or Marx
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20446
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Philosophy begins in disappointment, notably in religion and politics
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20448
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Phenomenology uncovers and redescribes the pre-theoretical layer of life
[Critchley]
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20449
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Science gives us an excessively theoretical view of life
[Critchley]
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20447
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The problems is not justifying ethics, but motivating it. Why should a self seek its good?
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20450
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The state, law, bureaucracy and capital are limitations on life, so I prefer federalist anarchism
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20451
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Belief that humans are wicked leads to authoritarian politics
[Critchley]
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20452
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Anarchism used to be libertarian (especially for sexuality), but now concerns responsibility
[Critchley]
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20454
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Wallace Stevens is the greatest philosophical poet of the twentieth century in English
[Critchley]
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20455
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Philosophy really got started as the rival mode of discourse to tragedy
[Critchley]
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20456
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Interesting art is always organised around ethical demands
[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
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6838
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Continental philosophy is based on critique, praxis and emancipation
[Critchley]
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6843
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Perceiving meaninglessness is an achievement, which can transform daily life
[Critchley]
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6844
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Scientism is the view that everything can be explained causally through scientific method
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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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6846
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Phenomenology is a technique of redescription which clarifies our social world
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6847
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Humour can give a phenomenological account of existence, and point to change
[Critchley]
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6848
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Humour is practically enacted philosophy
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