Sublime

This was the sort of powerful, personal stuff that people craved from philosophy in troubled times: it was one reason why Heidegger acquired such influence. His starting point was reality in its everyday clothes, yet he also spoke in Kierkegaardian tones about the strangest experiences in life, the moments when it all goes horribly wrong — and even

« La philosophie n’est pas une construction de système, mais la résolution, une fois prise, de regarder naïvement en soi et autour de soi. » Sous l’influence de Bergson, puis de l’existentialisme, j’ai donc toujours conçu la philosophie comme une métamorphose totale de la manière de voir le monde et d’être en lui.

Heidegger suggested that we only really know an object when it breaks—

modern thinkers of this kind have simply no philosophy or poetry or possible attitude at all, towards the things which they receive from the real, world that exists already; from the past; from the parent; from the patriotic tradition or the moral philosophy of mankind.

knowledge corresponds to analog knowledge. Self-knowledge is not contained in the head but is discovered in relationship.

Merleau-Ponty instead saw quite calmly that we exist only through compromise with the world — and that this is fine. The point is not to fight that fact, or to inflate it into too great a significance, but to observe and understand exactly how that compromise works.

Cranz’s project in “phenomenological hermeneutics” is an attempt to reclaim an experience of the psyche that was consciously articulated by Aristotle.

Platon définit la philosophie comme l’exercice de la mort, et le philosophe comme l’homme qui ne craint pas la mort parce qu’il contemple la totalité du temps et de l’être (Républ.,

La corporation philosophante ne saurait apprécier un homme qui a écrit un jour que nous avions pléthore de professeurs de philosophie, mais nulle part des philosophes. Eux qui pensent qu’enseigner la pensée d’autrui c’est penser par soi-même et que paraphraser les livres des autres du haut de sa chaire dispense de vivre selon des principes,