You can also download and read or share a .pdf of the complete text of this essay by scrolling down to the bottom of this post. Some Thoughts Written While Visiting the Swedish Countryside Recently, I’ve been studying a selection of Henri Lefebvre’s works closely. His output included philosophy, sociology, history, economics, art criticism, and … [continue reading]
Author Archives: Otto Paans
A Philosopher’s Diary, #5–Thirty-Six Philosophical Precepts of Martial Arts Practice.
The descriptive sub-title of this blog—Against Professional Philosophy—originally created and rolled out in 2013, is “A Co-Authored Anarcho-Philosophical Diary.” Now, nine years later, after more than 300,000 views of the site, this new series, A Philosopher’s Diary, finally literally instantiates that description by featuring short monthly entries by one or another of the members of … [continue reading]
The New Subjective Body, #6–Conclusion.
This essay is being published in six installments. PREVIOUS INSTALLMENTS: #1 Introduction #2 Modernity and Postmodernity: Two Types of Nihilism #3 Detachment and Stillness #4 On Nishitani’s Anti-Nihilism #5 What is The New Subjective Body? The BIBLIOGRAPHY is included in this sixth and final installment. VI. Conclusion The emergence of the new subjective body is … [continue reading]
The New Subjective Body, #5–What is The New Subjective Body?
This essay is being published in six installments. PREVIOUS INSTALLMENTS: #1 Introduction #2 Modernity and Postmodernity: Two Types of Nihilism #3 Detachment and Stillness #4 On Nishitani’s Anti-Nihilism The BIBLIOGRAPHY will be included in the sixth installment. V. What is The New Subjective Body? The reversal or Gestalt shift that I just described juxtaposes, or … [continue reading]
The New Subjective Body, #4–On Nishitani’s Anti-Nihilism.
This essay is being published in six installments. PREVIOUS INSTALLMENTS: #1 Introduction #2 Modernity and Postmodernity: Two Types of Nihilism #3 Detachment and Stillness The BIBLIOGRAPHY will be included in the sixth installment. IV. On Nishitani’s Anti-Nihilism According to Nishitani, we must start with the distinction between an objectifying view of the world and a … [continue reading]
The New Subjective Body, #3–Detachment and Stillness.
This essay is being published in six installments. PREVIOUS INSTALLMENTS: #1 Introduction #2 Modernity and Postmodernity: Two Types of Nihilism The BIBLIOGRAPHY will be included in the sixth installment. III. Detachment and Stillness What must a new subjective position accomplish in order to resist the cycle of commodification, especially including self-commodification, and the demands of … [continue reading]
The New Subjective Body, #2–Modernity and Postmodernity: Two Types of Nihilism.
This essay is being published in six installments. PREVIOUS INSTALLMENT: #1 Introduction The BIBLIOGRAPHY will be included in the sixth installment. II. Modernity and Postmodernity: Two Types of Nihilism The postmodern commitment to rejecting any notion of “grand récits,” essentially robbed the western subjectivity from any clear anchoring points in the past. Simultaneously, it removed … [continue reading]
The New Subjective Body, #1–Introduction.
This essay is being published in six installments. The BIBLIOGRAPHY will be included in the sixth installment. I. Introduction I concluded an earlier essay (Paans, 2020) with an open-ended question: How can one, in a world so thoroughly shattered and torn by “the politics of fragmentation,” carve out a new subjective space? More specifically, is … [continue reading]
A Philosopher’s Diary, #3—Against Perfectionism.
The descriptive sub-title of this blog—Against Professional Philosophy—originally created and rolled out in 2013, is “A Co-Authored Anarcho-Philosophical Diary.” Now, nine years later, after more than 300, 000 views of the site, this new series, A Philosopher’s Diary, finally literally instantiates that description by featuring short monthly entries by one or another of the members … [continue reading]
Philosophy in a Newer Key: Outside the Professional Academy and Inside the Real World, #2.
This is the second of two installments, the first of which is HERE. Philosophy in a Newer Key: Outside the Professional Academy and Inside the Real World, #2. II. Philosophy in the Adjectival Key Granting all [that I’ve argued already], then real philosophy outside the professional academy is bound to take on a radically different … [continue reading]