Heidegger doesn't glorify irrationality anyway. He thinks rationality is founded on an irrational, or rather prerational, basis, which is obviously true.
By the by I think it's funny that this forced misreading is the same as the Thomists'.
--- On Fri, 7/4/08, shag <shag at cleandraws.com> wrote:
> From: shag <shag at cleandraws.com>
> Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] Power (Waiting for Foucault)
> To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
> Date: Friday, July 4, 2008, 11:49 AM
> you, charles, joanna, and others who constantly babble on in
> substanceless
> ways re: the EBil Poe Moe remind me of students' common
> love of stroking
> their opinion. it's this weird frotteurism. i have my
> opinion, damn it. i
> don't have to have an argument that backs up my
> criticisms. i have an
> opinion on it, and he's wrong. and not only that, my
> opinion is sacred
> man, sacred. i have a right to whip out my opinion and
> stroke it and love
> it and rub it all over everyone. see my opinion?! isn't
> it the coolest!? it
> is so sacred and cool. there, you need me to rub it right
> into the small of
> your back as we're riding the subway. hhhmmmmhhhhmmm.
> yeah baby. and all
> you people wanting to know why its Ok to rub my opinion all
> over everyone
> and stroke it like mad? well, i mean, obviously, you're
> followers of the
> Ebol Heidegger and Nazis and stuph! Now shut up while I
> spend the next 8
> hours trying to make pecker tracks on the ceiling.
>
>
> At 04:44 AM 7/4/2008, Tahir Wood wrote:
>
> >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
>
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