“Was not their mistake once more bred of the life of slavery that they had been living?—a life which was always looking upon everything, except mankind, animate and inanimate—‘nature,’ as people used to call it—as one thing, and mankind as another, it was natural to people thinking in this way, that they should try to make ‘nature’ their slave, since they thought ‘nature’ was something outside them” — William Morris


Friday, January 6, 2012

Heideggerian Pleasure

I had the great pleasure of a two hour conversation with Gerhard Richter, Heidegger scholar and Benjamin scholar and all round good chap. That was a very nice way to connect with reality at MLA. MLA is not a place where that often happens, but in this case, somehow it worked.

It's very meaningful to share the pleasure of thinking with someone.

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