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spiritual kingdom aestheticism,
fin de siècle art and literature,
Die Lebenswelt
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Die Lebenswelt
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Phenomenology Friday
New on my blog: I posted a paper I wrote earlier this year, “Merleau-Ponty’s Ontology of Sense and Non-Sense.” I’m pretty proud of it and plan to include it in a future edition of my book. It talks a little about Hegel; that’s an area I’m still planning on diving into further on a future blog post.
Merleau-Ponty’s Ontology of Sense and Non-Sense — Ontology and Sense
By Shea Stevens [An abstract of this paper was submitted to Chiasmi in 2025 but the abstract was not accepted for a full peer review nor was the author given feedback. The author chose to publish t...
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November 14, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Phenomenology Friday
November 14, 2025 at 1:53 AM
I shall read Septology from Thanksgiving through Christmas. It has thus been recommended as a winter book.
November 14, 2025 at 12:43 AM
I shall read Septology from Thanksgiving through Christmas. It has thus been recommended as a winter book.
“Montaigne [puts] not self-satisfied understanding but a consciousness astonished at itself at the core of human existence.”
— Maurice Merleau-Ponty
www.scottnewstok.com/montaigne
— Maurice Merleau-Ponty
www.scottnewstok.com/montaigne
How to Teach Children by Michel de Montaigne — Scott Newstok
www.scottnewstok.com
November 13, 2025 at 9:23 AM
“Montaigne [puts] not self-satisfied understanding but a consciousness astonished at itself at the core of human existence.”
— Maurice Merleau-Ponty
www.scottnewstok.com/montaigne
— Maurice Merleau-Ponty
www.scottnewstok.com/montaigne
all the different chess moves:
- try to start a war with Venezuela
- drop thousands of new bombshell Epstein files
- do some press interviews saying aliens are real
- give everyone $2,000
youtu.be/ryleWEOMOWM?...
- try to start a war with Venezuela
- drop thousands of new bombshell Epstein files
- do some press interviews saying aliens are real
- give everyone $2,000
youtu.be/ryleWEOMOWM?...
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November 13, 2025 at 7:00 AM
all the different chess moves:
- try to start a war with Venezuela
- drop thousands of new bombshell Epstein files
- do some press interviews saying aliens are real
- give everyone $2,000
youtu.be/ryleWEOMOWM?...
- try to start a war with Venezuela
- drop thousands of new bombshell Epstein files
- do some press interviews saying aliens are real
- give everyone $2,000
youtu.be/ryleWEOMOWM?...
Dolly Parton is cooking on Substack. This is especially tantalizing seeing as how recently there were rumors that she was terminally ill and fading; rumors which she quickly quashed.
November 12, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Dolly Parton is cooking on Substack. This is especially tantalizing seeing as how recently there were rumors that she was terminally ill and fading; rumors which she quickly quashed.
Merry and Pippin to Frodo:
Pippin: “What’s he doing?” Merry: “He’s leaving the book group. He’s going to actually finish the book… on his own.”
Pippin: “What’s he doing?” Merry: “He’s leaving the book group. He’s going to actually finish the book… on his own.”
Galadriel, on the book group reading:
"The book reading stands upon the edge of a knife. Flake out but a little and it will fail, to the ruin of all. Yet hope remains while the group chat is responsive."
"The book reading stands upon the edge of a knife. Flake out but a little and it will fail, to the ruin of all. Yet hope remains while the group chat is responsive."
November 11, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Merry and Pippin to Frodo:
Pippin: “What’s he doing?” Merry: “He’s leaving the book group. He’s going to actually finish the book… on his own.”
Pippin: “What’s he doing?” Merry: “He’s leaving the book group. He’s going to actually finish the book… on his own.”
I love this book. The writing is really special.
November 10, 2025 at 7:20 PM
I love this book. The writing is really special.
The Half-Blood Prince had this book before me and he went crazy in this section.
November 6, 2025 at 7:44 PM
The Half-Blood Prince had this book before me and he went crazy in this section.
Reposted by Eric
I had a wonderful conversation with Scott Stephens and Walled Aly on Radio Nationa's "The Minefield." Episode -
on Beauty in the age of speed, frictionlessness and AI slop
- now online:
www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
on Beauty in the age of speed, frictionlessness and AI slop
- now online:
www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
Is the experience of beauty slipping away in an age of frictionlessness, speed and AI slop? - ABC listen
The availability of increasingly powerful generative AI tools has radically altered the creative process. Anything that we can imagine can be turned into an image, a video, a text, a song — the proces...
www.abc.net.au
November 6, 2025 at 1:12 AM
I had a wonderful conversation with Scott Stephens and Walled Aly on Radio Nationa's "The Minefield." Episode -
on Beauty in the age of speed, frictionlessness and AI slop
- now online:
www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
on Beauty in the age of speed, frictionlessness and AI slop
- now online:
www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
I need some syllabus help. Are there any good classical fiction books (up to the early 20th century) that engage well with or are directly related to Tocqueville's democracy in America?
November 5, 2025 at 10:24 PM
I need some syllabus help. Are there any good classical fiction books (up to the early 20th century) that engage well with or are directly related to Tocqueville's democracy in America?
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These people will speculate about the wildest sci-fi futures, and then call free buses for all unrealistic utopianism
November 3, 2025 at 3:32 PM
These people will speculate about the wildest sci-fi futures, and then call free buses for all unrealistic utopianism
Instability in the exactness of the natural sciences; but not a problem for the science of the life world.
Sokolowski:
Sokolowski:
November 2, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Instability in the exactness of the natural sciences; but not a problem for the science of the life world.
Sokolowski:
Sokolowski:
Gadamer is ready-to-hand(…) for consultations.
November 2, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Gadamer is ready-to-hand(…) for consultations.
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Phenomenology Friday
Reading:
Husserl: ~ The prepredicative is rooted in aisthēsis… such experience is the pure life-world before it is masked by a garb of ideas supplied by idealizations…
Husserl: prepredicative experience
Merleau-Ponty: primary perception
Transcendental Aesthetics
Reading:
Husserl: ~ The prepredicative is rooted in aisthēsis… such experience is the pure life-world before it is masked by a garb of ideas supplied by idealizations…
Husserl: prepredicative experience
Merleau-Ponty: primary perception
Transcendental Aesthetics
October 11, 2025 at 4:30 AM
Phenomenology Friday
Reading:
Husserl: ~ The prepredicative is rooted in aisthēsis… such experience is the pure life-world before it is masked by a garb of ideas supplied by idealizations…
Husserl: prepredicative experience
Merleau-Ponty: primary perception
Transcendental Aesthetics
Reading:
Husserl: ~ The prepredicative is rooted in aisthēsis… such experience is the pure life-world before it is masked by a garb of ideas supplied by idealizations…
Husserl: prepredicative experience
Merleau-Ponty: primary perception
Transcendental Aesthetics
Lifeworld, the ever present horizon:
Husserl: to live is always to live-in-certainty-of-the-world
Husserl: to live is always to live-in-certainty-of-the-world
November 2, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Lifeworld, the ever present horizon:
Husserl: to live is always to live-in-certainty-of-the-world
Husserl: to live is always to live-in-certainty-of-the-world
‘None’ Religion, crypto-religiosity, and some forms of lazy or heretical religion share a common theme: change the previous standard versions of religion to suit one’s self-acceptance. (1/2)
“Western society is ‘ideologically exhausted’, confronting the limits of its dominant secular narratives and seeking new stories to tell itself. But the dominant secular narrative of our age is surely the sovereignty of the individual”
engelsbergideas.com/essays/the-c...
engelsbergideas.com/essays/the-c...
The Church of the Almost Believers
Caught between scepticism and spiritual hunger, the ‘crypto-religious’ are seeking something to believe in outside the parameters of organised religion.
engelsbergideas.com
November 1, 2025 at 9:01 PM
‘None’ Religion, crypto-religiosity, and some forms of lazy or heretical religion share a common theme: change the previous standard versions of religion to suit one’s self-acceptance. (1/2)
“Western society is ‘ideologically exhausted’, confronting the limits of its dominant secular narratives and seeking new stories to tell itself. But the dominant secular narrative of our age is surely the sovereignty of the individual”
engelsbergideas.com/essays/the-c...
engelsbergideas.com/essays/the-c...
The Church of the Almost Believers
Caught between scepticism and spiritual hunger, the ‘crypto-religious’ are seeking something to believe in outside the parameters of organised religion.
engelsbergideas.com
November 1, 2025 at 6:25 PM
“Western society is ‘ideologically exhausted’, confronting the limits of its dominant secular narratives and seeking new stories to tell itself. But the dominant secular narrative of our age is surely the sovereignty of the individual”
engelsbergideas.com/essays/the-c...
engelsbergideas.com/essays/the-c...