Dreyfus (was Re: The bizarre Nazi book craze)

[Michael F]

I'm not by any means saying that Dreyfus doesn't attend to the
material questions of our day, or to the field of his choosing, which
is technology.  Listening to any of his lectures available on the net
or even listening to him at Berkeley makes this obvious(I've listened
to him on the net and in person at Berkeley-up close and at a
distance).  My problem is that he doesn't attend to the "human"
questions: the desire for "being" in a qualitative sense, which a few
humans still ask, and if you don't see this as the focus of human
thought, we will find no meeting ground and may be best to discontinue
the discussion.  Deleuze and Foucault aren't on my reading lists
anymore.

Mike
On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 11:54 AM, Kai Frederik Lorentzen
<lorentzen at hotmail.de> wrote:
>
> Yes. I'm waiting for that too. Though it's years ago, I still remember well
> the illuminating effect "Beyond Structuralism and Hermeneutics" (co-author:
> Paul Rabinow) had on my understanding of Foucault, who himself considered it
> to be an accurate introduction to his thinking. Only the study Deleuze did
> after Foucault's death reaches the level of the one by Dreyfus/Rabinow.
>
> KFL
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> On 18.03.2011 19:32, Richard Ryan wrote:
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>> Dreyfus begs "for brainwashing ideology to take over the population or
>> masses"?  I've been reading and listening to Dreyfus for years,
>> studied with one of his leading students (Charles Guignon) and I've
>> never heard anything remotely like that.  Perhaps you could cite some
>> some specific texts?
>>
>> On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 1:13 PM, Michael F<mff8785 at gmail.com>  wrote:
>>>
>>> No.  The most famous name, and the longest tenured Philosophy prof at
>>> UC Berkeley, Prof. Hubert Dreyfus, and the Chair of the Philosophy
>>> Department at Harvard, Prof. Sean Dorrance Kelley, are staunch
>>> Heideggerians.  Like many in the West, they prescribe to a line of
>>> thought that not just permits, but begs for brainwashing ideology to
>>> take over the population or masses.  I heard them speak last week and
>>> was quite astonished by what I heard(and also by what I have read by
>>> the two of them).  "We" the good citizens are too busy going after Leo
>>> Strauss and Carl Schmitt, who in fact try to warn us of impending
>>> "nihilism".
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