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We have seen that Zizek imposes an oedipal schema onto Deleuze’s « Letter To A Severe Critic » to make it conform to a structure that he can easily understand and criticise. Despite his neo-lacanian sophistication when he talks theory, Zizek’s default … Lire la suite →

In « Letter To A Severe Critic » Deleuze explains how he imagined his incursions into the history of philosophy as a « sort of buggery », coming up from behind and giving a thinker a baby in his own likeness yet monstruous. A … Lire la suite →

Deleuze’s « Letter To A Severe Critic » is one of his richest and most beautiful texts. It can be seen as a treatise on alterity, so it is only fitting that Zizek misreads it, and Deleuze’s work generally, as avoiding any … Lire la suite →

Feyerabend wanted us to « regard any clear and definite arrangement with suspicion ». Thus any attempt to put a simple label on his philosophy is bound to run into difficulties thrown up by the various expositions of his ideas that show … Lire la suite →

I have always wondered why Feyerabend makes very little mention of Nietzsche, when for me their philosophies are so close. Often in his treatment of Ernst Mach I discerned an unthematised Nietzschean element. So it was with great satisfaction that … Lire la suite →

Feyerabend would « adapt himself excellently to those with whom he conversed … He accomplished this to such a point that from his correspondence one almost gets the impression that there were different people who shared the name « Feyerabend ». Lakatos is … Lire la suite →

Intellectuals tend to see themselves as missioned by humanity to express and articulate its knowledge, its needs and desires, and the principles on which they are based. They are thus also missioned to humanity to guide it on the right … Lire la suite →

One of the themes of STORIES FROM PAOLINO’S TAPES is the need to perceive and to pay attention to all that is outside the narrow limelight of official knowledge and social success. The light is but a narrow selection from … Lire la suite →

Feyerabend’s STORIES FROM PAOLINO’S TAPES is composed of fragments from the recordings he made for his wife Grazia Borrini while they were apart. In the latter part of his life Feyerabend led a nomadic existence as a philosophy lecturer, traveling … Lire la suite →