User:Philoponus

A focus of mine is identification of aporias implicit in the INNER HISTORY of key episodes/ chapters in the Western intellectual tradition __in other words genealogical critique! Or close reading on the narratological level to identify immanent tensions THAT CALL OUT TO BE RENDERED EXPLICIT (to prevent asphyxiation!) and, if need be, exploded!!

In particular I am interested in DECONFLATING the tight inter-imbrication or identification between Western rationalism and Christian theology (as seen for example in the scholastics) that was (unwittingly or otherwise!) perpetrated in different guises over several centuries. There is nothing particularly original about approaching the History of Philosophy in the light of such a gestalt __what other DEMON than this was tearing at Kierkegaard and driving him on; or at Nietzsche (in his 'forced' __or exaggerated__ anti-Christianity in Jungian sense of having been driven by a 'logic of compensation')?!

Nevertheless, there is a lot of work left to be done. Indeed I correlate this agenda with the STRUGGLE AGAINST the 'last man syndrome' in Kojeve's sense (the socio-political dimension of globalisation as the supposedly 'untranscendable horizon of our time' to quote St Tony (Blair)). If, as was perceptively diagnosed with regard to Bismarck's Germany as early as the 1870's, the currently hegemonic trends among the 'intellectual elite' have succeeded in WIPING AWAY THE HORIZON __then the obvious imperative is to DELEGITIMATE SAID ALL-PERVASIVE HORIZON and clear the ground for SOME GREAT NEW BEAST THAT IS WAITING TO BE BORN  ...to cite Yeats!