Mindful Pleasures

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I am the twentieth century. I am the ragtime and the tango; sans-serif, clean geometry. I am the virgin's-hair whip and the cunningly detailed shackles of decadent passion. I am every lonely railway station in every capital of Europe. I am the Street, the fanciless buildings of government. the cafe-dansant, the clockwork figure, the jazz saxophone, the tourist-lady's hairpiece, the fairy's rubber breasts, the travelling clock which always tells the wrong time and chimes in different keys. I am the dead palm tree, the Negro's dancing pumps, the dried fountain after tourist season. I am all the appurtenances of night.
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Fragments of social theory, western Marxism, sexual politics, continental philosophy and high modernism.

Melbourne, Australia.

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There is no exit from the entanglement. The only responsible option is to deny oneself the ideological misuse of one’s own existence, and as for the rest, to behave in private as modestly, inconspicuously and unpretentiously as required, not for reasons of good upbringing, but because of the shame of still having air to breathe in hell.

Resources for the Study of Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit:

29. Science sets forth this formative process in all its detail and necessity, exposing the mature configuration of everything which has already been reduced to a moment and property of Spirit. The goal is Spirit’s insight into what knowing is. Impatience demands the impossible, to wit, the attainment of the end without the means. But the length of this path has to be endured, because, for one thing, each moment is necessary; and further, each moment has to be lingered over, because each is itself a complete individual shape, and one is only viewed in absolute perspective when its determinateness is regarded as a concrete whole, or the whole is regarded as uniquely qualified by that determination. Both because the substance of the individual, the world spirit, has possessed the patience to pass through these forms over the long passage of time and to take upon itself the prodigious labor of world history, and because it could not have reached consciousness about itself in any lesser way, the individual spirit itself cannot comprehend its own substance with anything less…

Text:

Terry Pinkard’s Draft Translation of the Phenomenology of Spirit (Bilingual)

Lectures:

J.M. Bernstein’s lecture course on the Phenomenology

Richard Dien Winfield’s lecture course on the Phenomenology

Key Commentaries:

H. S. Harris: Hegel’s Ladder vol. 1 The Pilgrimage of Reason, vol. 2 The Odyssey of Spirit

Draft Chapters from Robert Brandom’s “A Spirit of Trust: A Semantic Reading of Hegel’s Phenomenology”

Jean Hyppolite: Genesis and Structure of Hegel’s “Phenomenology of Spirit”

Robert Pippin: Hegel’s Idealism

Alexandre Kojève: Introduction to the Reading of Hegel

Additional Commentaries: