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230702: read third time. like it even more. this time read more on d and 'the event' and better understand, if not necessarily agree with his critiques of phenomenology. he believes p does not retain 'vital power', does not create 'concepts', does not offer way to correct, does not offer 'power', against limitations of p. p is seen as static. 'logic of sense' d's concepts mostly described in [book:The Logic of Sense|154328] are said more dynamic, empowering. all I can say is everything is up for interrogation. it is wonderful to read the entire syllabus of continental philosophy read being sympathetically explored. she does not hesitate to note when certain authors are just mistaken, such as b about special relativity, but also that in fact current understanding is coming closer and closer to his thoughts...
how merleau-ponty interprets b is fascinating to see lineage of thought, d as overarching interlocutor have not read many primary work but see by books on my deleuze shelf that I have really liked many works on d.
220124: three of my favourite philosophers, so it is no surprise this book is excellent, engaging, exciting. books on, by, referring to m-p (75), b (56), d (28). the three are ultimately viewed through deleuze. whom i have read on much more than by, whose ideas are least familiar, most challenging, who also brings in the pragmatist philosopher charles pierce- of whom i have read nothing- and builds, discusses, argues against those other two, against bergsonism and phenomenology. book begins with m-p, then b, then critiques of d. i do not know where current arguments are on these ways of thought, but surprise myself by recognising some thinkers quoted...
after intro that notes 'three body problem' of how their philosophies interact, there is an interesting philosophical critique of language in the novel [book:Embassytown|9265453], that immediately gives an idea of postmodern critiques of naturalism, formalism, that the author will develop. b has his ideas, m-p and d will interrogate them. for b the universe of motion cannot be made of immobile sections, for m-p the motion is always relative to the central observer, for d images remain images and have no need of immediate motion for meaning...
chapter 2 is d and guatarri's critique of logic, which, to the extent understood, is difficult to summarise...
chapter 3 is bergson and bergsonism, which i could follow, have read enough, and explains both his disputes about time with einstein and beginning of analytic-continental schism in philosophy with arguments with bertrand russell. rather than 'wrong' the impression is mostly b is misunderstood at that time, now better appreciated...
chapter 4 is duration, motion, temporalization in b, m-p, d...
chapter 5 is phenomenology and the event- m-p's radical ideas compared to d's...
chapter 6 is philosophy of the event- a lot on d's book on the artist francis bacon, and 'the logic of sensation', for there is logic against chaos in art, in science, in philosophy...
no, i cannot claim to understand it all, but of what is understood i am very impressed... possibly need prof to more fruitfully examine text, especially to better understand how pierce fits in, how logic is critiqued in chapter 2, whether b does or does not escape analytic denunciations, if i understand the philosophy of 'the event' versus phenomenological 'doxa', maybe need to read more primary texts by d. there is also question of 'why' i read this book: philosophy takes the place of religion in my life, that is, it is its own reason. there are things i do not understand but expect to eventually by cobbling together many, many texts that rehearse similar arguments. mainly, as it is b i have read easiest and feel understand best, i am heartened by how d rescues his thought from say russell, want to better understand how 'images' are everything, somehow between thought virtual and the real. and the brain is not identical with the mind etc. as usual, there is the impression of more ideas to read, books to read, and so little time...
220127:
bergson:
[book:Time and Free Will: An Essay on the Immediate Data of Consciousness|907548]
[book:Matter and Memory|865540]
[book:Creative Evolution|379659]
[book:Henri Bergson: Key Writings|115736]
[book:Bergson’s Philosophy of Self-Overcoming: Thinking without Negativity or Time as Striving|52736601]
[book:Philosophy and the Adventure of the Virtual: Bergson and the Time of Life|115738]
[book:Bergsonism|203326]
[book:Bergson: Thinking Beyond the Human Condition|35750377]
[book:Thinking in Time: An Introduction to Henri Bergson|379665]
[book:The Bergsonian Philosophy of Intelligence|42439211]
[book:Bergson and the Stream of Consciousness Novel|3553423]
[book:Morality in Evolution: The Moral Philosophy of Henri Bergson|22137889]
[book:The Crisis in Modernism: Bergson and the Vitalist Controversy|8583342]
[book:The Philosophy of Science Fiction: Henri Bergson and the Fabulations of Philip K. Dick|25990962]
merleau-ponty:
[book:Maurice Merleau-Ponty: Basic Writings|203362]
[book:Merleau-Ponty's Ontology|203385]
[book:Phenomenology of Perception|18279]
[book:The Merleau-Ponty Aesthetics Reader: Philosophy and Painting|203349]
[book:Merleau-Ponty's Existential Phenomenology and the Realization of Philosophy|18402707]
[book:Merleau-Ponty's Phenomenology: The Problem of Ideal Objects|2574840]
[book:The Phenomenological Philosophy of Merleau-Ponty|13496658]
[book:The Being of the Phenomenon: Merleau-Ponty's Ontology|203380]
[book:The Visible and the Invisible|203348]
[book:Merleau-Ponty's Last Vision: A Proposal for the Completion of "The Visible and the Invisible"|203368]
bonus
[book:Ark of the Possible: The Animal World in Merleau-Ponty|6907797]
deleuze:
[book:Gilles Deleuze: An Introduction|1226878]
[book:Deleuze|342866]
[book:What Is Philosophy?|118319]
[book:Gilles Deleuze: Key Concepts|203340]
[book:Bergsonism|203326]
[book:Bergson-Deleuze Encounters: Transcendental Experience and the Thought of the Virtual|9631208]
[book:Gilles Deleuze: Cinema and Philosophy|3128135]
[book:Deleuze on Cinema|25207067]
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