Philosophy @ Graduate Center CUNY, James Kent Scholar @ ColumbiaLaw, Ghanaian drumming @ CalArts -- Partner/Director @ Weitz & Luxenberg
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"Ernst Bloch continually tried to learn from his errors and contradictions and reworked his former views if proven wrong by historical developments. In doing this, he clung to a personal ethics of the 'aufrechter Gang', the upright gait."
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What they mean by capitalism's internal contradictions?
Hannah Arendt criticized this 1929 work for its view that thinking derives from one's social and economic conditions, summoning Augustine for the idea that a transcendent thought, eg neighborly love, could guide action hence change conditions.
We see the need for a new principle of life, but some attempt an artificial intensification of the very principle that has led to decay -- the nationalist outburst, which is nothing but a mania, all these nationalisms being so many blind alleys.
-- José Ortega y Gasset (1930)
Although governing élites find rules of law a nuisance, to be bent & manipulated, I do not conclude that the rule of law itself is humbug. On the contrary, regulating conflicts through law's procedures seems to me a cultural achievement of universal significance.
-- EP Thompson
Pertinent to anti-(non-white)immigrant animus and shifting legal grounds for ensuring that most movements come out, indeed, "illegal," Joseph Raz (1977) commented that "the rule of law is designed to minimize the danger created by the law itself."
HLA Hart derived the term "open texture" from Vienna Circle philosopher Friedrich Waismann, who called it "the possibility of vagueness."
US artist Nicole Eisenman, Another Green World, 2015 #womensart
The unfortunately infrequent novel, Olga Tokarczuk's The Empusium, p. 7, a sense of foreboding, this will lead to something no doubt
Launching a spontaneous mass movement
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The German philosopher and socialist Ernst Bloch saw all human history as the story of the hope of a classless society, without which life would be meaningless.
