"'Consciousness of life' - can those words be right? Are we conscious of our own lives? The words which spring to our lips, the ideas and images at our disposal, are they kind to allow us a true consciousness of our lives? ... No! Our lives are still unrealized, and our consciousness is false. It is not only our consciousness which is false: it is only false because our lives are still alienated. False representations bring with them a false consciousness of what an unrealized life is; in other words they do not bring an awareness of the non-realization (of the degree of non-realization) of human life: they present it as either realized (which leads to vulgar or moral satisfaction) or unrealizable (which leads to anguish or the desire for a different life).
More precisely, nowadays, we do not know how we live. And at the end of our lives, we scarcely know how we have lived them. And how bitter this unhappy consciousness is..."
Tuesday, 24 November 2009
Monday, 2 November 2009
Wednesday, 28 October 2009
Monday, 26 October 2009
Friday, 2 October 2009
Thursday, 17 September 2009
Tuesday, 15 September 2009
Thursday, 3 September 2009
Tuesday, 25 August 2009
Friday, 21 August 2009
Monday, 3 August 2009
Friday, 5 June 2009
Saturday, 16 May 2009
Tuesday, 12 May 2009
"Ideas are great to the degree that they are feasible", (Gramsci 2007 [1975])
"They let what is not yet present arrive into presencing [...] the bursting of the blossom in the bloom wherever man opens his eyes and ears, unlocks his heart, and gives himself over to meditating and striving, shaping and working, entreating and thanking, he finds himself everywhere already brought into the unconceald.", (Heidegger 1977)
Friday, 8 May 2009
Wednesday, 6 May 2009
Thursday, 30 April 2009
Saturday, 18 April 2009
Sunday, 12 April 2009
Monday, 6 April 2009
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