Schopenhauer - The World as REPRESENTATION
Added 2024-05-19 13:00:06 +0000 UTCYou know what it is. Part 1 of The World as Will and Representation (https://amzn.to/3UM2SBY)
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got back to this and finished it so I can move onto the next 3 already. Really liked,” You can’t look under the hood of reality in any place but in your own experience.’ P.s. do u think the Schopenhauerian will is a forerunner to the Freudian Unconscious?
Zachary Manenti
2024-06-15 03:49:29 +0000 UTCThank you for this reading. I admire Schopenhauer for his relentless pessimism.
Khemith
2024-06-06 06:19:13 +0000 UTCInteresting. I am currently working on the epistemology of cultural studies, where Chris Barker emphasises the necessary move away from representationalism. A linguistic turn also pursued by Stuart Hall in the 1970s. The argument goes in the direction that post-structuralism and postmodernism (Foucalut, Lyotard, Rorty) are moving away from the notion of universal truth. Did Schopenhauer, then, anticipate this before turn of the Hegelian branch, and later the Marxist branch, in precisely this direction of anti-representationalism?
Domen Žalac
2024-05-31 13:12:30 +0000 UTCOh and fuck online leftists who are quick to cancel and slow to read, relentlessly trying to drag everyone down to their level.
anacidcommie
2024-05-30 20:18:09 +0000 UTCI usually hate commenting until I’ve heard the whole thing. But is it not peak simulation that everyone is now going full npc mode on social media just sharing that “all eyes on Rafah” image, one which is AI generated and is being done mostly for performative reasons by the vast majority of people sharing it?
anacidcommie
2024-05-30 20:17:09 +0000 UTCSo great u r doing this! Reading along ( w different translation). You cut thru the problem of the opacity of translations and 19th century language, so I get what he’s saying. Really helpful. You mentioned Lacan — Will as Desire. I connect a lot of Lacan to Schopenhauer at the level of question of representation (symbolic, imaginary)and perception, and also the flip side, Will—Desire and beyond that the Real. I wonder where the Unconscious comes in…makes a boundary perhaps between dreaming and waking… that position outside the dream… Desire? Also it’s hard to distinguish here between instinct (animal perception-representation) and habit. Without the biological factor, are they the same? I like the modern physics and quantum stuff too. I agree with you that in the prefaces Schopenhauer comes off overly self concerned and bitter… but I have some compassion for his whining. It’s hard to entirely dismiss the psychological in his more personal addresses. His father, whom he loved by accounts, committed suicide when he was a teen, and mom was very cold to him and competitive, vying for the position of genius of the family along with her son. She was a successful and popular novelist I believe. Anyway, a very unhappy childhood with an unloving competitive parent could make u crave some recognition. Probably if he hadn’t had money he might not have amounted to much… too little support. But out of some revenge,and w the means, he put his intellect to work. it seems. Anyway, he wrote important shit. And it was hard to get a book in edge wise with the German Idealists taking up all the oxygen. But they were offering something potent and reassuring. Time/History. I hope this arc you r on lasts for a while. I think Schopenhauer is great, and a big missing key for me in understanding contemporary philosophy.
Zachary Manenti
2024-05-28 04:28:32 +0000 UTCEven if that's a reach, time & technological "sensory data organisations" are at the least vehicles for living desire and categorisation, inseperable from a posthuman condition
Alex B
2024-05-25 05:48:08 +0000 UTCMuch like self, emotion/feeling/instinct are visceral, simplistic, drifting, warping categories, symbolising a wide range of layers, programmed over time by trial, error and solicitation. A sense of self is an emotion (perhaps a categoryof categories of categories, etc.), avoidance and pursuit are desire. OK they may deny it and their categories may be simpler/more consistent, but AIs have emotions in this sense. Animals clearly have instinct. Even in the simplest lifeforms DNA could be considered such shorthand categories shaped over time. I think time is programmed to avoid and pursue, and "life" echoes into ever more complexity. Does time have a concept of self? Isn't that inherent in pursuit & avoidance?
Alex B
2024-05-25 05:40:16 +0000 UTCGreat stuff, love it!
Matt S
2024-05-22 14:19:46 +0000 UTCSchopy coming with those "DFW telling you to read Infinite Jest twice" vibes.
Birk
2024-05-19 16:59:20 +0000 UTCWho is Will?
Ashley H
2024-05-19 16:50:31 +0000 UTC
