“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


Thursday, October 4, 2012

"I'm Just Not in Your Religion"

Harman talks about the difficulty of talking about/with Zizek, which to me has to do with the difficulty of talking to Hegelians.

It happened a while back at a talk. Someone started up "You just don't understand that..." and I knew before he finished the sentence that he was a Hegelian. I just replied, "I'm sorry mate, you're never going to get any joy from me, because I'm not in your religion." I had to do it twice, since as their guy asserts, something doesn't happen until it's happened twice...

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