Sri Aurobindo Devotees: Prayers,
Sasibalika Vidya Mandir, R.S. Puram, 9.30 a.m.; Annai Meditation Centre,
Kovaipudur, 4 p.m.
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editions Aurobindo is critical of a world state and
favours a world union. There are three possible institutional means to
effectuate the scheme of the unity of mankind. There can be a centralized
unitarian world state but Aurobindo
rejects this suggestion ...
In the book “Consciousness, Indian Psychology and Yoga”, there is a
chapter where Matthijs Cornelissen says the hard problem arises because Western
psychology is inverted in its thinking. It sees this world as real and hence
has to figure why the brain works; whereas Indian psychology which sees this
world as a projection can explain better why the brain creates images. Comment on Sravana Manana and Nidhidhyasana Here
is the excerpt from the article by Matthijs:
(David)
Chalmers' formulation of the hard problem-and of the correlation between
the brain and consciousness are typical examples of our unwarranted, and often
unconscious collective tendency to think that even if consciousness is
irreducible, it is somehow still “less fundamental” than matter. The recent
philosophical debate on the nature of consciousness is to a considerable degree
dominated by such materialist presuppositions…. (Kireet Joshi, Matthijs
Cornelissen (ed). Consciousness, Indian Psychology and Yoga , New Delhi , Motilal
Banarsidas, 2004. pp 16-17)
Why Zizek doesn’t have a political
program from An und für sich by Adam
Kotsko
“Claude Levi-Strauss wrote that the
prohibition of incest is not a question, an enigma, but an answer to a question
that we do not know. We should treat the demands of the Wall Street protests in
a similar way: intellectuals should not primarily take them as demands,
questions, for which they should produce clear answers, programs about what to
do. They are answers, and intellectuals should propose the questions to which
they are answers. The situation is like that in psychoanalysis, where the
patient knows the answer (his symptoms are such answers) but does not know what
they are the answers to, and the analyst has to formulate the questions. Only
through such patient work will a program emerge.”
Slavoj
Zizek and the role of the philosopher Santiago Zabala Al Jazeera, 25 Dec 2012
In order to respond, as Edward Said once said, the intellectual has to
be "an outsider, living in self-imposed exile, and on the margins of
society", that is, free from academic, religious and political
establishments; otherwise, he or she will simply submit to the inevitability of
events.
If Slavoj Zizek perfectly fits Said's description, it is not because
he is unemployed, in exile, and at the margins of society, but rather because
he writes as if he were. His theoretical books, political positions and public
appearances are a disruption not only of the common academic style, but also of
the idea of the philosopher or intellectual as someone to be idealised and
deferred to…
While many believe that globalisation made the Slovenian philosopher
more popular than John Dewey, Herbert Marcuse, or Jurgen Habermas, it was
actually his ability to disrupt our neoliberal democratic surety through the
same events that characterise it…
Today, whether we like him or not, Zizek is, as the Observer points
out, "what Jacques Derrida was to the 80s", that is, the thinker of
our age. While Derrida's intellectual operation focused on
"deconstructing" our linguistic frames of reference, Zizek instead
"disrupts" our ideological structures, the underside of acceptable
philosophical, religious and political discourses. 1:57 PM
Slavoj Zizek: I am not the world's hippest philosopher! Salon - SUNDAY,
DEC 30, 2012 01:30 AM IST The coolest and most influential leftist in Europe
tells Salon he battles depression -- and those who worship him BY KATIE ENGELHART
Almost 25 years ago, philosopher Slavoj Žižek broke through the
intellectual cul-de-sac of Slovenian academia — making his mark on the
English-speaking world with “The Sublime Object of Ideology” (1989), a wily
fusing of Lacanian psychoanalysis, Frankfurt School idealism, and reflections on
the 1979 blockbuster horror flick “Alien.”
Today, he’s everywhere. The notoriously unkempt “radical leftist” philosophe has
become the unlikeliest of celebrities: a cult icon and spiritual guide for Europe ’s lethargic left…
Žižek: I really hate all of this politically correct, cultural studies
bullshit. If you mention the phrase “postcolonialism,” I say, “Fuck it!”
Postcolonialism is the invention of some rich guys from India who saw
that they could make a good career in top Western universities by playing on
the guilt of white liberals… I also have a bit of megalomania. I almost
conceive of myself as a Christ figure.
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