Studies in a Dying Culture

I began this post on August 12, 2008 with these references. In lieu of reviewing this fascinating subject matter now, here is the bibliography:

Dascal, Marcelo. Leibniz and Epistemological Diversity. In A. Lamarra and R. Palaia (eds.), Unita e Molteplicita nel Pensiero Filosofico e Scientifico di Leibniz (Simposio Internazionale Roma, October 1996). Roma: Leo S. Olschki Editore, pages 15-37 (2000).

Dascal has a whole book out on this subject:

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz: The Art of Controversies. Translated and Edited, with an Introductory Essay and Notes, by Marcelo Dascal, with the collaboration of Quintín Racionero and Adelino Cardoso. The New Synthese Historical Library, volume 60. Dordrecht: Springer, 2006, xllii + 516 pages; paperback edition, February 2008.

Dascal, Marcelo. The Balance of Reason. In O. Nudler (ed.), La racionalidad: su poder y sus limites. Buenos Aires/Barcelona/Mexico: Paidos, pages 363-381, 1996 [Spanish]. (English revised version, in D. Vanderveken (ed.), Logic, Thought and Action, Dordrecht: Springer, pp. 27-47, 2005 ; abridged Chinese version in Studies in Dialectics of Nature 22(7): 97-101; 2006).

A draft from March 5, 2009. I don’t recall what I planned to write, but here are the references:

Nizan, Paul. “The End of a Philosophic Parry: Bergsonism,” Les Revues, 1929, reprinted in Paul Nizan, Intellectuel Communiste Maspero (Paris, 1967).

Nizan exposes Bergson’s empty pseudoconcreteness, which reminds me of Adorno’s later evisceration of Heidegger.

My old blog entries:

Bergson’s Vitalism & French Philosophy (11 July 2006)

Julien Benda’s Treason of the Intellectuals (12 July 2006)

Consciousness and Society: A Review

Old Emergence Blog entries:

2 on Maurice Cornforth, beginning here
5 Nov 2004 – 25 Feb 2005 entries
23 Feb 2005 – 3 June 2005

. . . and keep up with current Emergence blog.

References:

Burwick, Frederick; Douglass, Paul; eds. The Crisis in Modernism: Bergson and the Vitalist Controversy. Cambridge [UK]; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1992. See table of contents and publisher description.

More Links:

Irrationalism in Modern Thought Culminating in Overpriced French Philosophy
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950): from realism to mysticism
Trotsky on religion (2): literature, idealism, vitalism
Stephen Eric Bronner (3): Bronner vs. Goldner on science & the Enlightenment
Max Horkheimer on Materialism vs Positivism & Metaphysics
From Hegel to Marcuse by Lucio Colletti
The Appearance of Reality and the Reality of Appearance by David H. DeGrood
The Late Vitalism of Wilhelm Reich: Selected Quotations
The Philosopher’s Mission by Paul Nizan

In Esperanto, see:
Filozofio en Esperantujo – ĉu blogo blagas?
Paul Nizan
Misio de la Filozofo de Paul Nizan

It has been over three years since my last post.  I have experienced technical difficulties in attempts to reactivate this blog. If I succeed I will publish several unpublished drafts that have been sitting in limbo.