Video Response: Dialectic of Enlightenment!

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Video Response: Dialectic of Enlightenment!

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@andrewmacdonald3667 8 ай бұрын

Thank you Steve. From ‘Marvel Team Up’ to Adorno - this is why I keep watching.

@stephenwalker2924 8 ай бұрын

This video is the Citizen Kane of booktube videos. This video is The Magic Mountain of booktube videos. This video is The Wasteland of booktube videos. Future generations of vlog-content creators will study this video in awed and silent wonder. They will turn to each other and cry like frightened children and they will throw away their i-phones and camera equipment and algorithmically-obsessed ambitions and they will bow down before it like worthless, supplicatory, humble peasants as if before a god. Then they will retreat to their napping couches and bean beds and spend the rest of their lives eating biscuits and watching pornography.

8 ай бұрын

Hahaha, Steve reading philosophy. 🤣

@spikedaniels1528 8 ай бұрын

Yes, Steve so far offered up about half his proposed reading list of substantive philosophical writings for a 2024 programmatic delight…

@diamonddavewonfor 8 ай бұрын

Listening to you talk about philosophy really makes me wish I had you around when I was at art college.

@bighardbooks770 8 ай бұрын

Guess what, Steve? I happen to own this book, upon my shelf, unread, yep ... IDK if IMA join the readalong but I might read the book!

@jnicole3977 8 ай бұрын

Hi Steve, I am attempting to read The Republic. Any commentary is welcomed and appreciated.😊

@Nuance88 8 ай бұрын

This is one of my favorite videos of yours in a while. You're showing a deep respect and care for Grix in the sharpness of your criticism, as if you see his potential beyond the circular mental confine he's found himself in. I hope he sees it that way, too. Just a wonderful video, truly.

@materiagrix 8 ай бұрын

No confinements here! Just an omnivorously curious exploration of philosophical arguments :)

@Nuance88 8 ай бұрын

@@materiagrix Yes, that's unfair of me. You're being open to critical and provocative works. In getting my English degree, I had to read a lot of writers like Adorno, Derrida, Foucault, etc. That time was wonderful for me, for plenty of reasons, and those works felt like a genuine upending of so much I took for granted. My impulse to now characterize them as circular and confining stems from how unfairly those writers treated the ideas they criticized, which I did not learn for myself until years later, and how much that style of writing obfuscated important issues through abstraction and a kind of skeptical drama. I ended up building bad habits: I communicated complexity without clarity. Worst of all, I felt superior in playing with unclear thinking and language. But it really is unfair to project my experiences onto you. We can read all sorts of things without swallowing them whole. And it certainly wouldn't feel right to take strangers at their word and to self-censor what you read. I'm glad you're curious and hope that curiosity persists.

@carolynnixon7095 8 ай бұрын

Congratulations on getting your English degree and enjoying the journey in doing so.

@HomesickFaery 8 ай бұрын

@@materiagrixYeah, I actually interpreted Steve as the confined one, heheh

@DavidJLevi 5 ай бұрын

Brilliant argumentation. A thoroughly stimulating talk. I agree with everything you said.

@joshuacreboreads 8 ай бұрын

Oh, such a read along would be a treat indeed!

@stretmediq 8 ай бұрын

So what do you think of John Searles cluster theory of proper names? 🤔

@spikedaniels1528 8 ай бұрын

Who would be on your proposed list, for 2024, of philosophers with meat behind them?

@andrewmacdonald3667 8 ай бұрын

Wasn’t this already hinted at? Plato, Aristotle, Marcus Aurelius, Seneca, Machiavelli, Locke, Hume, Peter Singer …

@thelefthandedreader6632 8 ай бұрын

Wow…I am now driven to refresh my memory about The Enlightenment! 😮 I, embarrassingly, don’t recall a damn thing about it.

@jagodka8250 8 ай бұрын

Steve, some time ago you talked about recording a bro watch about Lex Fridman. Is this video project abandoned?

@juliemartin6101 8 ай бұрын

Can you save him with a real read-along of some serious writers? Don''t know, but spending this time in a deep, comfortable leather armchair doing this reading will make your afternoon pleasant.

@GentleReader01 8 ай бұрын

Steve, this video would have been better with jazz playing in the background. :) Apart from that, I’d say you gave Adorno absolutely all the respect he deserves.

@davidnovakreadspoetry 8 ай бұрын

I haven’t read Adorno, but now I’m not sure I can trust his language if I do… or anyone’s language. 😂

@GentleReader01 8 ай бұрын

@@davidnovakreadspoetry The Frankfurt School were left-wingers in the Weimar Republic whose general view was that culture peaked exactly when everything they liked was at its height and then it’s been downhill ever since. Everything they disliked, like jazz and arts past the early 20th century avant garde, tied together with capitalism in a general system of decline. There’s this humorless obliviousness to themselves as persons occupying and shaped by a historical, cultural moment as opposed to boldly advancing toward ALL TRVTH. I’m about as much a fan of them as Our Gracious Host is.