“To consider the matter aright, reason is nothing but a wonderful and unintelligible instinct in our souls, which carries us along a certain train of ideas, and endows them with particular qualities, according to their particular situations and relations. This instinct, ’tis true, arises from past observation and experience; but can any one give the [...]
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From “A Treatise of Human Nature (1.3.16)”
September 4, 2009
From “Feminism, the Body, and the Machine”
March 15, 2009
“Marriage, in what is evidently its most popular version, is now on the one hand an intimate ‘relationship’ involving (ideally) two successful careerists in the same bed, and on the other hand a sort of private political system in which rights and interests must be constantly asserted and defended. Marriage, in other words, has now [...]
From “On Truth and Lying in a Non-Moral Sense”
July 17, 2008
What, then, is truth? A mobile army of metaphors, metonymies, anthropomorphisms, in short a sum of human relations which have been subjected to poetic and rhetorical intensification, translation, and decoration, and which, after they have been in use for a long time, strike a people as firmly established, canonical, and binding…
- Friedrich Nietzsche
From “Preface to Shakespeare”
February 19, 2008
Whoever considers the revolutions of learning, and the various questions of greater or less importance, upon which wit and reason have exercised their powers, must lament the unsuccessfulness of enquiry, and the slow advances of truth, when he reflects that great part of the labour of every writer is only the destruction of those that [...]
From “Late Marxism: Adorno, or the Persistence of the Dialectic”
June 25, 2007
“In that limited appropriation which Adorno makes of Freudian conceptuality [...], neurosis is simply this boring imprisonment of the self in itself, crippled by its terror of the new and unexpected, carrying its sameness with it wherever it goes, so that it has the protection of feeling, whatever it might stretch out its hand to [...]
