Diogenes in the Marketplace

Friday, August 15, 2014

On Hannah Arendt, the film

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Arendt’s Radical Good and the Banality of Evil from Babette Babich on Vimeo . Babette Babich, "Arendt’s Radical Good and the Banali...
Monday, January 28, 2013

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And we find ourselves at the end, just after the rocky-horror like force of the “pleural shock,” quoting Thomas Mann,  I know death .....
Monday, January 21, 2013

Postmodernism and the Nouvelle Cynic

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I have  suggested that the cynicism of which Sloterdijk writes could also be called as both Lyotard and Eco spoke of it, “postmodern” — ...
Sunday, January 20, 2013

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And part of the reason for this predictably ambidextrous answer can be seen in Sloterdijk’s choice of George Schulz’s cynical oil painting...

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W hat Sloterdijk says of censorship one can also read in Horkheimer but also Marcuse and at greater length in an another author Sloterdij...
Saturday, April 14, 2012

Dämmerung: The Twilight of False Consciousness

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Once again, we recall the year: 1981.  The echoes resound. We hear Nietzsche and Heidegger to be sure, also Adorno and Benjamin but above...
Tuesday, April 10, 2012

Reprise: Sloterdijk and Adorno

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The previous post entails, then, that Sloterdijk must be taken as rather more nuanced than the “Heidegger? Can’t be a good philosopher. Was...
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Babette Babich (PhD: Boston College), Professor of Philosophy at Fordham University in New York City. She has taught at Juilliard and the School of Visual Arts, NYC as well as the University of California at San Diego, Georgetown University, Stony Brook University, including Stony Brook Manhattan, Eberhard-Karls Universität, Tübingen and the Humboldt Universität, Berlin, etc.. Among other books, she is author of The Hallelujah Effect: Music, Performance Practice, and Technology (2016 [2013]), Words in Blood, Like Flowers (2006) in addition to books in French and German. Her edited collective volumes include Hermeneutic Philosophies of Social Science (2017) and Reading David Hume’s »Of the Standard of Taste« (2019). She is also founding editor of the journal, New Nietzsche Studies.
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