[b]Jan Mieszkowski
Schopenhauer: The will to life
Nietzsche: The will to power
Heidegger: The will to will
Wittgenstein: What will it take to make you all go away?[/b]
My guess: Mr. Reaper.
It’s the end of the world as we know it!
Kant: “It’s”?
Bataille: “The”?
Hegel: “End”?
Wittgenstein: “Of”?
Leibniz: “The”?
Schelling: “World”?
Beckett: “As”?
Schopenhauer: “We”?
Hume: “Know”?
Heidegger: “It”?
Nietzsche: And I feel fine!
Fucking Nietzsche. Always the outlier.
Kant: Critique of Pure Reason
Sloterdijk: Critique of Cynical Reason
Spivak: Critique of Postcolonial Reason
Žižek: I wrote this 900-page book for no reason
Žižek actually makes some interesting points here: philosophynow.org/issues/122/Slavoj_Zizek
Philosophy’s greatest trick was convincing us that
Plato: the good exists
Aristotle: the true exists
Descartes: we exist
Parmenides: existence exists
Nietzsche: philosophy exists
Come on, a trick’s a trick.
The most thought-provoking thing in our thought-provoking time is that we are still
Bataille: thinking
Heidegger: not thinking
Wittgenstein: speaking
Nietzsche: not speaking
Beckett: here
Or, if you believe in the afterlife, there.
Freud: It’s not you, it’s your id
Marx: It’s not you, it’s your alienated labor
Levinas: It’s not you, it’s your Other
Twitter: It’s you
Not including us of course.