Wednesday 23 September 2015

Continental philosophy, morality and the dialectic







Celebrating the tragi-comic result of God's death.

Note:  Actually Bataille probably does reify "death" in a French formalistic way, which I think is misleading in terms of conveying Nietzsche's own spirit.  However, in the same breath, Bataille does also insist that living is a process, as is thinking.   The tendency of metaphysicians to look for END POINTS and to make these define the whole of reality (or rather, to give a particular meaning to reality as if  they discovered a hidden "essence") has to be taken on and confronted as wrongheaded.

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