[b]Jan Mieszkowski
Ancient philosophy: Why am I not a god?
Enlightenment philosophy: Why am I not a machine?
Modern philosophy: Why am I not a reality TV star?[/b]
Postmodern philosophy: All of the above?
When that late-night conversation about Spinoza and Deleuze has to stop because of something people invented called “Monday and work.”
Don’t you just hate that?
Freedom is
Leibniz: self-rationalization
Kant: self-determination
Hegel: self-transcendence
Sartre: self-delusion
Camus: a joke
Let’s note the outlier here.
Optimism: The sun will rise tomorrow.
Pessimism: The sun will rise tomorrow.
Nihilism: The sun will rise the day after tomorrow, too.
You can never go too far with this.
Deleuze: immanence
Derrida: immanent transcendence
Kant: transcendent transcendence
Arendt: imminent transcendence
Nietzsche: imminence
I always get them confused.
Take off your mask and see that
Sartre: there’s nothing underneath
Kristeva: the person there isn’t you
Beckett: you weren’t wearing a mask
Though [obviously] not in that particular order.