[lbo-talk] The Cultural Anthropology of 9/11

dredmond at efn.org dredmond at efn.org
Wed Apr 15 10:54:48 PDT 2009


On Tue, April 14, 2009 11:49 pm, Chris Doss wrote:


> (The immediate effect of Kant was to give birth to all kinds of
> mysticisms and irrationalisms, like Novalis and Fichte. I think of him as
> more the end of the Enlightenment than one of its architects

True only in the sense that those mysticisms were the mysticisms of money, not theology.

Kant was the great forerunner of Hegelian dialectics. His thought is as progressive and regressive as the great 18th century national revolutions, and as ambiguous as cultural nationalism.

-- DRR



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