OMG-Pessoa! One of my favorite writers (along with his heteronyms)! If you have the chance, you must visit the Pessoa museum in Lisbon. It’s fantastic, so well done. In the Room of Disquiet there is a large table of cards set up with excerpts from The Book of Disquiet that visitors can read and mix and match. So glad that you went into his work with this video. Thank you!
I just read a book to add to the pile, namely Invitation to a Beheading by Nabokov. This suites well the minds that are more inclined to stories, the more lighthearted maybe, as there is some humor in there too.
Sebastian, King of Portugal A madman, yes, because I wanted greatness Such as fortune never grants. My certainty couldn’t fit in me, And so what I left on those foreign sands Is the me that I was, not am. Let others take up my madness And all that went with it. Without madness what is man But a healthy beast, A postponed corpse that breeds? 20 February 1933 Fernando Pessoa …found this relevant, thanks for looping in Pessoa🙏
There lies a problem within equating the concept of the genius with the process of truth. For within the idea of genius lies the idea of power, of 'Zwang'; genius can force the world into shape. It can set the new norm, which you, earlier in the lecture, differentiated from truth. Schopenhauer, I think, describes that process of forcing the world into shape. He might have thought that was something sublimely truthful, but I think you started out with a very different notion of truth. Love all your lectures, btw. They are a blessing!
Interesting novel to read more about this modern preoccupation with sickness and health: Der Zauberberg by Thomas Mann. (Not so short a reading, haha, but meticulously brilliant)
And for that matter, two other great Thomas Mann books mulling over the idea of genius are Lotte In Weimar and Doktor Faustus. The first is about Goethes rise to absolute geniusness, so to speak. The latter is a deep contemplation over the central role of Durchbruch (breakthrough) in German culture. One published 1939, one in 1947, these can be read as contemplations on how it had come so far...
Nietzsche scholar and Pessoa fan here. Glad your video came into my feed today! Appreciate your erudite POV on these philosophical and sociological topics. (P. S., I've been in the midst of reading the Book of Disquiet for a couple of years now, which I find very... Disquieting :-)
I wouldn't say "embrace" this despair, I would say be completely aware with this despair, know it, and by completely studying it and being it, you also paradoxically free yourself from it
Trostlos aber der Gedanke, dass der Krankheit des Normalen nicht etwa die Gesundheit des Kranken ohne weiteres gegenübersteht, sondern dass diese meist nur das Schema des gleichen Unheils auf andere Weise vorstellt.
“Trostlos aber der Gedanke, dass der Krankheit des Normalen nicht etwa die Gesundheit des Kranken ohne weiteres gegenübersteht, sondern dass diese meist nur das Schema des gleichen Unheils auf andere Weise vorstellt.” Adorno p.66-67 (minima Moralia) “And how comfortless is the thought that the sickness of the normal does not necessarily imply as its opposite the health of the sick, but that the latter usually only present, in a different way, the same disastrous pattern.” (Verso radical thinkers vol. 1, 36-37)
@@julianphilosophy it's a great passage. If you want to see this played out in real time, spend some time in a GP surgery and watch how they cherry pick both health and sickness based on class and prejudice. In a UK surgery** I suspect Europe have better systems.
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OMG-Pessoa! One of my favorite writers (along with his heteronyms)! If you have the chance, you must visit the Pessoa museum in Lisbon. It’s fantastic, so well done. In the Room of Disquiet there is a large table of cards set up with excerpts from The Book of Disquiet that visitors can read and mix and match. So glad that you went into his work with this video. Thank you!
Sadly Julian doesn't even talk about Pessoa and The Book here.
The Book Of Disquiet is my favourite thing outside Cioran. I love it.
Pessoa my beloved. No one understands me more than he does.
Finally someone giving credit to Pessoa AS A PHILOSOPHER
I just read a book to add to the pile, namely Invitation to a Beheading by Nabokov. This suites well the minds that are more inclined to stories, the more lighthearted maybe, as there is some humor in there too.
Thank you Mr. Medeiros ❤ This means the world to me ❤️
Sebastian, King of Portugal
A madman, yes, because I wanted greatness
Such as fortune never grants.
My certainty couldn’t fit in me,
And so what I left on those foreign sands
Is the me that I was, not am.
Let others take up my madness
And all that went with it.
Without madness what is man
But a healthy beast,
A postponed corpse that breeds?
20 February 1933
Fernando Pessoa
…found this relevant, thanks for looping in Pessoa🙏
one of your best... thank you
How many languages do you speak?
There lies a problem within equating the concept of the genius with the process of truth. For within the idea of genius lies the idea of power, of 'Zwang'; genius can force the world into shape. It can set the new norm, which you, earlier in the lecture, differentiated from truth. Schopenhauer, I think, describes that process of forcing the world into shape. He might have thought that was something sublimely truthful, but I think you started out with a very different notion of truth.
Love all your lectures, btw. They are a blessing!
Interestingly, you can arrive at the same place listening to pink Floyd albums.
Interesting novel to read more about this modern preoccupation with sickness and health: Der Zauberberg by Thomas Mann. (Not so short a reading, haha, but meticulously brilliant)
And for that matter, two other great Thomas Mann books mulling over the idea of genius are Lotte In Weimar and Doktor Faustus. The first is about Goethes rise to absolute geniusness, so to speak. The latter is a deep contemplation over the central role of Durchbruch (breakthrough) in German culture. One published 1939, one in 1947, these can be read as contemplations on how it had come so far...
Great lecture. Many things clicked
Nietzsche scholar and Pessoa fan here. Glad your video came into my feed today! Appreciate your erudite POV on these philosophical and sociological topics.
(P. S., I've been in the midst of reading the Book of Disquiet for a couple of years now, which I find very... Disquieting :-)
Good breakdown
As Bob Dylan says:
What's good is bad, what's bad is good
You'll find out when you reach the top
You're on the bottom
I wouldn't say "embrace" this despair, I would say be completely aware with this despair, know it, and by completely studying it and being it, you also paradoxically free yourself from it
My response to austerity was to tell ppl to embrace their poverty, use it to power their anger.
As my danish friend said Kierkegaard is pronounced Kirk eh go(h)
Just saying 🎉
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Woher kannst du so gut Deutsch sprechen Julian?
Title grabber let get it
Could someone write this quote at 6:50 in german please?
Trostlos aber der Gedanke, dass der Krankheit des Normalen nicht etwa die Gesundheit des Kranken ohne weiteres gegenübersteht, sondern dass diese meist nur das Schema des gleichen Unheils auf andere Weise vorstellt.
“Trostlos aber der Gedanke, dass der Krankheit des Normalen nicht etwa die Gesundheit des Kranken ohne weiteres gegenübersteht, sondern dass diese meist nur das Schema des gleichen Unheils auf andere Weise vorstellt.” Adorno p.66-67 (minima Moralia)
“And how comfortless is the thought that the sickness of the normal does not necessarily imply as its opposite the health of the sick, but that the latter usually only present, in a different way, the same disastrous pattern.” (Verso radical thinkers vol. 1, 36-37)
@@julianphilosophy it's a great passage. If you want to see this played out in real time, spend some time in a GP surgery and watch how they cherry pick both health and sickness based on class and prejudice.
In a UK surgery** I suspect Europe have better systems.
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