Archives mensuelles : août 2019

The preceding posts should make it clear that while taking a keen interest in Sean Kelly’s new project conceived as a pluralist endeavour, I reject his claim to develop a « radical » or « ultimate » polytheism/pluralism. The principle reason is that there … Lire la suite →

In his posts on How do you make a decision and on Ontological gratitude Sean Kelly puts forth a number of radical polytheist maxims concerning decision, understanding, the gift and gratitude. I wish to consider three of these maxims: 1) A … Lire la suite →

The centrality that Sean Kelly in his recent posts on the ALL THINGS SHINING blog gives to the notions of the « gift » and of « gratitude » would seem to indicate his dependence on a very questionable set of ideas coming from … Lire la suite →

There has been a lively and interesting dialogue going on at the ALL THINGS SHINING blog. It’s true that sometimes in an exchange, the dialogue takes over, and becomes more than the sum of its parts. We think thoughts and … Lire la suite →

I am trying to apply the loose set of meta-criteria that I have developed for evaluating metaphysical research programmes to Sean Kelly’s ALL THINGS SHINING (ATS) project and to its successor project THE PROPER DIGNITY OF HUMAN BEING (PDHB), as … Lire la suite →

In a post on his blog ALL THINGS SHINING Sean Kelly tries to describe the phenomenon of making an important life-decision. To give some context to his analysis he has shared a personal story about how he came to a … Lire la suite →

I have been grappling with the problem of the best or the most appropriate language for philosophy, and my tentative conclusion is that there is no final or absolute answer. Sometimes colloquial language that sticks close to the experience as … Lire la suite →

In the ongoing discussion of what is living and what is dead in Hubert Dreyfus and Sean Kelly’s ALL THINGS SHINING project Kelly makes an important point about language. He argues that my insistence, in my review of the book, … Lire la suite →

Sean Kelly has reactivated the ALL THINGS SHINING blog after eight years of leaving it on hold with a complex gesture of reuniting with what is still living in the former project that he shared with Hubert Dreyfus, and also … Lire la suite →

New book by Zizek, SEX AND THE FAILED ABSOLUTE (roughly 500 pages), coming out in September. Here is the table of contents (source here). I am looking forward to reading it after having worked through Badiou’s take on the Absolute … Lire la suite →