2012-02-01から1ヶ月間の記事一覧
"[Adorno:] ...When ideas become too concrete, I protest; when they become too abstract, you protest." (Adorno & Horkheimer. Towards a New Manifesto. 104) 「アイディアが具体的になりすぎると、わたし［＝アドルノ］が抗議する。アイディアが抽象…
"The possible is richer than the real [so says Prigogine]. Who should know this better than social scientists? Why are we so afraid of discussing the possible, of analyzing the possible, of exploring the possible. We must move not utopias,…
日本語の文章がうまく書けない。すごくショックだ。
These two days I spent some substantial amount of time to read Benjamin's "Theses on the Philosophy of History" in the original, in two English translations, and in the French translation by Gandillac. But I still don't quite understand th…
"ob es wohl vernünftig sei, Zweckmäßigkeit der Naturanstalt in Teilen und doch Zwecklosigkeit im Ganzen anzunehmen." (Kant. "Idee zu einer allgemeinen Geschichte in weltbürgerlicher Absicht." S7.) "Whether it be reasonable to assume a fina…
Is Zizek a philosopher or a trickster? His reading of Kant and Hegel is extremely exciting! I got excited at his decentering and disruptive interpretation of Kant-Hegel. But again and again he claims that "the standard reading of Kant and …
言葉の壁が崩れ落ちていくのを感じずにはいられない。日本語が書けなくなる。Englishもちゃんと操れなくなる。そしてそんななかでフランス語のテクストを読む自分。そこでドイツ語の勉強をする。明治近代の知識人の文章を読むと自分の漢文の素養のなさを痛感…
Sans doute Rousseau est un grand rhétorician. Mais Rousseau est sérieux ou non? je ne sais pas. Ce qui est certain pour moi, c'est que je don't understand Rousseau yet. 読むほどにルソーはわからなくなる。
read Rousseau listening to Rousseau's music and the French Baroque (Rameau, Lully). read Nietzsche listening to Wagner. no doubt this is a much better match than reading Rousseau in listening to Berg.
