Jonson & (Dr.) Johnson
Ben Jonson (Elizabethan dramatist, author of Volpone)
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Samuel Johnson (18th century poet, critic, Tory, author of the Dictionary and subject of James Boswell’s “Life”)
Ben Jonson (Elizabethan dramatist, author of Volpone)
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Samuel Johnson (18th century poet, critic, Tory, author of the Dictionary and subject of James Boswell’s “Life”)
David Toop in interview.
And here’s the mystery, the money that dares not speak its name, the untouchable secret: the total capitalists’ wealth. What is it? Where is it? What’s happening to it? Who’s got it? And, most importantly, why is it always outside of the debate of what ‘we’ can afford, what ‘our’ governments can spend money on, ‘our’ deficit.
– Michael Rosen, The Billions We’re Not Allowed to Talk About
See also: ‘Budget 2012: UK companies are sitting on billions of pounds, so why aren’t they spending it?’, Philip Aldrick in The Telegraph.
Entretiens, livres, etc.
Adorno und Horkheimer, über die Verschlingung von Mythos, Herrschaft und Arbeit, aus Dialektik der Aufklärung:
“In einer homerischen Erzählung ist die Verschlingung von Mythos, Herrschaft und Arbeit aufbewahrt. Der zwölfte Gesang der Odyssee berichtet von der Vorbeifahrt an den Sirenen. Ihre Lockung ist die des sich Verlierens im Vergangenen. Der Held aber, an den sie ergeht, ist im Leiden mündig geworden.
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Thorstein Veblen, from The Higher Learning in America, ch. 3:
“Men dilate on the high necessity of a businesslike organization and control of the university, its equipment, personnel and routine. What is had in mind in this insistence on an efficient system is that these corporations of learning shall set their affairs in order after the pattern of a well-conducted business concern. In this view the university is conceived as a business house dealing in merchantable knowledge, placed under the governing hand of a captain of erudition, whose office it is to turn the means in hand to account in the largest feasible output.
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William James, from The Varieties of Religious Experience, Lecture 20:
“In spite of the appeal which this impersonality of the scientific attitude makes to a certain magnanimity of temper, I believe it to be shallow, and I can now state my reason in comparatively few words. That reason is that, so long as we deal with the cosmic and the general, we deal only with the symbols of reality, but as soon as we deal with private and personal phenomena as such, we deal with realities in the completest sense of the term. I think I can easily make clear what I mean by these words.
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George Orwell on Henry Miller, from ‘Inside the Whale’:
“Evidently these books are of the sort to leave a flavour behind them—books that ‘create a world of their own’, as the saying goes. The books that do this are not necessarily good books, they may be good bad books like Raffles or the Sherlock Holmes stories, or perverse and morbid books like Wuthering Heights or The House with the Green Shutters. But now and again there appears a novel which opens up a new world not by revealing what is strange, but by revealing what is familiar.
Read moreStadtführung um Berlin als Hörspiel: Stadt im Ohr.
Read moreDas tiefste Wesen der Religion offenbart der einfachste Akt der Religion – das Gebet –, ein Akt, der unendlich mehr oder wenigstens ebensoviel sagt als das Dogma der Inkamation, obgleich die religiose Spekulation dasselbe als das größte Mysterium anstiert. Aber freilich nicht das Gebet vor und nach der Mahlzeit, das Mastgebet des Egoismus, sondem das schmerzensreiche Gebet, das Gebet der trostlosen Liebe, das Gebet, welches die den Menschen zu Boden schmettemde Macht seines Herzens ausdrückt.
Auflistung der Schriften, Fragmente und Vorlesungen Hegels, alphabetisch nach Titel geordnet
Hegels Gesammelte Werke (= Akademie-Ausgabe)
Read moreUm was für eine Identität oder auch »Gleichheit mit sich selbst« handelt es sich dabei? »Begriffloses Sprechen« [1] mißversteht diese Identität derart, daß alles Seiende so mit sich selber gleich ist, daß es zugleich nicht etwas anderes, sondern ungleich mit anderen, von Anderem verschieden ist. Dabei wird jedoch die idealistische Einsicht übergangen, daß alles Seiende immer schon »Subjekt« bzw. »Begriff« ist.
Read moreIt is equally excellent and inconclusive to say that one must write from experience; to our supposititious aspirant such a declaration might savour of mockery. What kind of experience is intended, and where does it begin and end? Experience is never limited and it is never complete; it is an immense sensibility, a kind of huge spider-web, of the finest silken threads, suspended in the chamber of consciousness and catching every air-borne particle in its tissue. It is the very atmosphere of the mind; and when the mind is imaginative—much more when it happens to be that of a man of genius—it takes to itself the faintest hints of life, it converts the very pulses of the air into revelations.
