{"id":9028,"date":"2012-06-10T19:27:20","date_gmt":"2012-06-11T00:27:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/?p=9028"},"modified":"2012-06-10T19:27:20","modified_gmt":"2012-06-11T00:27:20","slug":"9028","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/2012\/06\/10\/9028\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

More ideas from Slavoj \u017di\u017eek<\/a><\/p>\n

More than ever we need philosophy today.\u00a0 Even the most speculative (in the sense of reflecting on itself) science has to rely on a set of automatic\u00a0 presuppositions, like a scientist simply presupposes in his or her very approach to nature a set of implications of how the nature functions, what’s the causality in nature and so on and so on.\u00a0 And philosophy teaches us that.\u00a0 Philosophy teaches us what we have to know without knowing it in order to function, even in science — the silent presuppositions.<\/p>\n

I claim that what is happening, for example, in quantum physics in the last 100 of years — these things which are so daring, incredible, that we cannot include into our conscious view of reality — that Hegel\u2019s philosophy, with all it\u2019s dialectical paradoxes, can be of some help here.\u00a0 I claim that reading quantum physics through Hegel and vice versa is very productive.<\/p>\n

What I really want do is rehabilitate classical philosophy today.\u00a0 That is to say, Hegel was a child of his time.\u00a0 We are 200 years later.\u00a0 How to repeat Hegel, not to do the same things as he did but repeat in new circumstances the same gesture?\u00a0 And even here more for Hegel than for Marx.\u00a0 I think we should even return from Marx back to Hegel.\u00a0 So this is the focus of my work.\u00a0 Then come all the things for which I\u2019m unfortunately better known, for example, my dealings with critique of capitalism, analysis of popular culture and so on and so on.\u00a0 But frankly, to use the not very appropriate metaphor known from today\u2019s military adventures, all this, my writings on politics, on analysis of Hollywood and so on, is more or less collateral damage of my basic work.<\/p>\n

I think this is also what has to be done today.\u00a0 The danger today is precisely a kind of a bland, pragmatic activism.\u00a0 You know, like when people tell you, oh my God, children in Africa are starving and you have time for your stupid philosophical debates.\u00a0 Let\u2019s do something.\u00a0 I always hear in this call there are people starving.\u00a0 Let\u2019s do something.\u00a0 I always discern in this a more ominous injunction.\u00a0 Do it and don’t think too much.\u00a0 Today, we need thinking.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

More ideas from Slavoj \u017di\u017eek More than ever we need philosophy today.\u00a0 Even the most speculative (in the sense of reflecting on itself) science has to rely on a set of automatic\u00a0 presuppositions, like a scientist simply presupposes in his or her very approach to nature a set of implications of how the nature functions, … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[100,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hegel","category-zizek"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9028","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9028"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9028\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9029,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9028\/revisions\/9029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}