posted 04 February 2003 12:31 AM                   

Is there anyone interested in doing a discussion on Lukac's History and Class Consciousness or Susan Buck-Morss' Dialectics of Seeing?

posted 04 February 2003 01:16 AM                      

Lukacs can come later. BTW, I now own Bob Rae's copy of History and Class Consciousness. I guess he didn't need it.

posted 04 February 2003 09:02 AM                      

I agree lagatta - unless, of course, you want to make fun of the books.

Moving this off to "ideas, etc..."

posted 04 February 2003 09:43 AM                   

I have a theory about chapter titles, invention of same (of a standard historical plot, in other words), of the classical progression of historical divisions, derived from my reading of C17-C18 historical works, and Blake's mention of Lukacs reminds me that I've wanted to look at his table of contents again in that context ... Seriously, I will read the book, too. But I have a historical-formal (history of form) interest in looking at it -- as I guess I would, though, in looking at any of the others.

posted 04 February 2003 10:26 AM                      

(Rasmus, I assume "Phenomenology of Spirit" and "Phenomenology of Mind" are the same book with just a different title translation, right? Because I saw other links that called the book, "Phenomenology of Spirit/Mind".)

posted 04 February 2003 10:35 AM                   

How about a Walter Benjamin fan club? We could have team sweaters too...

posted 04 February 2003 01:25 PM                   

Sure, once he had made all of the ideas his own, fully intergrating them into his Weltsanshauung,
why not clear out the shelf space for more radical literature?

posted 04 February 2003 04:12 PM                   

Help me, Beelzebub, but it looks like we're gonna read Hegel.

Have I ever told you about the time I copy-edited a translation of the 1804-05 Jena Logic? The words I understood in that book: all the articles and prepositions, plus "I" and "Thou." The only questions I was able to ask as copy-editor concerned the punctuation of restrictive and non-restrictive clauses (should this be "which" or a "that" -- in other words, do we want a pair of commas or none at all?), and I don't usually need to ask about those, but when it's all Greek ... Or Logick!

Help me, Baob!

posted 05 February 2003 01:06 PM                   

I do spontaneous Aufhebungen all the time. Hegel does analytical Aufhebungen. I feel that he would not have had to work quite so hard had he read Keats on "negative capability."

posted 05 February 2003 07:32 PM                   

Again, I'd be interested in a discussion of this book, which could take a while. Buck-Morss is very interesting both as an expert on the Frankfurt School and as a photographer. She make a very intersting use of images, making it one of the few high theory books that's also nice to look at.