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Eric Purchase @EricPurchase

The purpose of the humanities is to tell jokes. futureofreading707761451.wordpress.com Buffalo, NY Joined June 2015
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Eric Purchase @EricPurchase

4 hours ago

Turning a simple noun, equipment, into an adjective (equipmental) and an abstraction (equipmentity) is philosophical bookkeeping, not illuminating the world but reconciling the world to the needs of hyperrationalistic philosophers.

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Julia Mary Dover @doverjuliam

4 hours ago

@EricPurchase A supervisor of mine Paul Connerton, whose distilled, spare and luminous books I recommend, once advised ‘have confidence in your ideas, and express them as simply as possible’. Obfuscation is a symptom of an empty head or insecurity or a need to play power games… or all three.

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Eric Purchase @EricPurchase

5 hours ago

Husserl is a bad writer who obscures some interesting ideas within a cloud of words. Heidegger is a self-important writer who prefers coining jargon to thinking and speaking clearly.

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Eric Purchase @EricPurchase

22 hours ago

Heidegger: "Being-in-the-world, according to our Interpretation hitherto, amounts to a non-thematic circumspective absorption in references or assignments constitutive for the readiness-to-hand of a totality of equipment." I'm done with this. Life is too short.

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Paul Robichaud @PaulJRobichaud

a day ago

In this story from ‘Tales to Astonish’ #6 (1959), by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby, a man-about-town suffers unexpected consequences for failing to honour the Great God Pan!

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Psyche's Cinema - short films @Psyche_Cinema

2 days ago

We have lost our immediate feeling for the great realities of the spirit-and to this world all true mythology belongs-lost it precisely because of our all-too-willing, helpful & efficient science.. is an immediate experience & enjoyment of mythology still in any sense possible?

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Selbstleser @Selbstleser

3 days ago

Da sie sich im Besitze der Wahrheit, der Weisheit, des höchsten Gutes glaubten, schrieben sie ihren Gegnern den Irrtum und die Schlechtigkeit zu. Sie fühlten sich stark: sie sahen Gott. Anatole France (16. April 1844 – 12. Oktober 1924): Die Götter dürsten

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Eric Purchase @EricPurchase

3 days ago

For someone who is neurotic about turning every idea into an abstract noun, Heidegger struggles to provide simple, clear definitions of his key terms.

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Pouyan @Pynmus

4 days ago

The creative person shows himself naked, and the more vigorous his creative act, the more naked he appears - sometimes totally vulnerable, yet always invulnerable in the sense of his own integrity. Harry Partch (American composer & music theorist)

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Eric Purchase @EricPurchase

3 days ago

Is it philosophy's chronic disease that it can't accept anything unless there's a definition for it?

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Eric Purchase @EricPurchase

3 days ago

Above all, Heidegger defines a phenomenon as that which manifests itself. I wait and wait in vain for him to raise the obvious issue: manifests itself *to whom*?

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Eric Purchase @EricPurchase

4 days ago

Above all, Heidegger defines a phenomenon as that which manifests itself. I wait and wait in vain for him to raise the obvious issue: manifests itself *to whom*?

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Eric Purchase @EricPurchase

4 days ago

Astounded that Heidegger says phenomenology (whose Greek root means appearance) is about what is *hidden*. Also, his jargon: history, historicize, historicality etc. You haven't discovered anything by turning a simple concept into an abstraction

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Psyche's Cinema - short films @Psyche_Cinema

5 days ago

William Blake -Oberon, Titania and Puck with Fairies Dancing c.1795 #FolkloreSunday

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Psyche's Cinema - short films @Psyche_Cinema

5 days ago

Circe and Odysseus with men transformed into animals, 1474, I love how calm everyone seems. #FolkloreSunday

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Eric Purchase @EricPurchase

5 days ago

You can learn a lot from people who are wrong, but you can't learn anything from people who are dishonest.

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Eric Purchase @EricPurchase

a week ago

If you believe the precise opposite of the truth, you know deep down what the truth is. washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/…

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a week ago

Was it the ancient land or the images I encountered in Greece? Several days after I took these photos of Gorgon/Medusa I was stuck with Bell's Palsy and the right side of my face was paralyzed. I've been reading Marion Woodman and others as I process the profound meanings of

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Christo van Staden @ChristoMove

a week ago

If we don't redistribute, nature will redistribute. Nature does not tolerate hoarding beyond a certain point, and not for too long.

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Ernst Roets @ErnstRoets

a week ago

If we don't redistribute, nature will redistribute. Nature does not tolerate hoarding beyond a certain point, and not for too long.

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Eric Purchase @EricPurchase

a week ago

Philosophers say: "Let's pretend we know nothing." Novelists say: "Let's pretend we know everything."

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Eric Purchase @EricPurchase

a week ago

Sometimes philosophers seem to be people who strip an engine down to its parts and then say, "OK, write a book that convinces me these parts could be made into an engine that works."

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