so why should it be so strange to claim that reason and violence are bound up together, when freudian theory (last i checked anyway) tended to see
eros and thanatos as bound up together?
The idea that reason and violence are bound up together is not at all 'wrong', it's banal, or should be by now (Hegel etc). The point is rather what sort of philosophical framework you want to embed this proposition in. But if, instead, you want to try and base a whole political philsophy around such a proposition you're going to end up with one that glorifies irrationality. But then you must be prepared to align yourself with Nietzsche and the nazi Heiddegger, 'cos that's where all this shit is coming from (especially Heidegger). Some of us think there are other roads to follow than those. And BTW it's pointless reading through a writer's entire oeuvre if you don't know why you're doing it. Life is short and the books they are many. Personally I prefer to avoid these meretricious 'stars' of the academic star system; there are better books and much better philosophers to read. Tahir -------------- next part -------------- All Email originating from UWC is covered by disclaimer http://www.uwc.ac.za/portal/public/portal_services/disclaimer.htm