thinking, insofar as its innermost potential is to think freely and ‘against itself’, is what, from the standpoint of conventional thinking, cannot but appear as ‘evil’ https://t.co/hGIfFKmmIP

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sad..to see Habermas trying to control the explosive results of biogenetics and curtail its philosophical consequences – his..endeavour betrays the fear…that the the old image of human dignity and autonomy will [not] survive unscathed. [@allenlanebooks typo: “not” is missing]

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Plato submitted ancient customs and myths to ruthless rational examination, Descartes undermined the medieval harmonious universe, Spinoza ended up being excommunicated, Hegel unleashed the all-destructive power of negativity, Nietzsche demystified the very basis of our morality

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a weirdly perverted situation in which the official ‘Left’ is enforcing austerity politics (at the same time advocating multicultural rights), while the populist Right is implementing anti-austerity measures to help the poor (while pursuing a xenophobic nationalist agenda)

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Parties like Die Linke in Germany represent the interests of their working-class constituency – better healthcare and retirement conditions, higher wages, and so on; this automatically puts them within the confines of the existing system

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Our predicament is..that..resistance to global capitalism…fails to recognize the many trends which clearly signal capitalism’s progressive disintegration. (A Thief In Broad Daylight) https://t.co/6zT25Nf3xv

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The task of the Left is…to change the prospect of what appears possible. (A Thief In Broad Daylight, 2018) https://t.co/C3hwRo3ybB

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