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his accomplishments include his translations of plato's republic and rousseau's emile he also edited the english edition of kojeve's lectures on hegel and he helped pioneer, in america, the "literary" approach to reading plato, i.e., taking the dramatic form of the dialogues seriously, i.e...

haven't read "ravelstein," despite my interest in strauss, i.e., ravelstein is bloom but another character is supposed to be modeled on strauss -- reckon i'll eventually get around to reading it but what i rate by bellow is his early work, especially "the victim" "seize the day" and "herzog"...

that is, did people actually refer to lfo, unique three, etc, as "bleep n bass" back in 1990? or was the term invented at some point in the mid-90s (perhaps after term "drum n bass" gained currency) to describe the earlier sound? that is, would all that is now called "bleep n bass" have been...

now turning to what was said before i entered this thread: (1a) k-punk states his view that existing organized opposition to global capitalism suffers from a lack of theoretical scope (adequacy & rigor) and a corresponding lack of poitical ambition; i.e., if the anti-globalization forces had an...

APOLOGIES for writing far too much in what follows -- but there's a lot going on in this thread Not sure what you mean by "naive"? Is Hegel an "experienced" psychological realist b/c he preserves Kant and modern science? Or is all phenomenology naive? Or perhaps any philosophy that does...

i'll have to get back to this later today, as my answer will have to address certain ambiguities about the terms of this discussion before i jumped into it but to adumbrate my answer: (1) for a kind of practical knowledge of one's situation that informs action before or during the fact-- i'd...

it's a highly controversial claim! unless the only views that count are captured in the sequence Freud to Marx to Foucault to Lacan (and even then, doubt that it holds true for the historical determinist Marx) and the claim is controversial in at least two ways: first, as it pertains to...

i don't think there's any "blame the asians subtext" here -- maybe "fear" of the asians, but not blame rather the problems are: (1) inherent to the nature of global capitalism -- i.e., seems to me that you can make a good marxist argument that we have entered a stage of fully realized...

it's not a matter of the asians "cooperating to fuck us over" -- rather, it's a case of the asian central banks holding so many dollars that should they attempt to divest themselves of dollars, they risk the value of the dollar plummeting and suffering a massive fical loss the only thing that...

and here's the neo-con view from the journal "foreign affairs," which calls the others cassandras: http://www.foreignaffairs.org/20050301facomment84201-p0/david-h-levey-stuart-s-brown/the-overstretch-myth.html

to simply get the main points of the "dollar crisis" argument, there's also this interview with richard duncan here: http://www.business-in-asia.com/dollar_crisis.html

picking up where the "decline" thread left off, i thought i'd bring to people's attention the link to this site: http://www.stern.nyu.edu/globalmacro/simple_content_frame.php if you have the time and actually understand economics (unlike me), then perhaps read the articles by the people who...

Are people on Dissensus familiar with Emmanuel Todd's book "After the Empire: The Breakdown of the American Order"? -- I'm waiting for it to come out in paperback over here, but the reviews I've read of the book make it seem like a must-read . . . .

i followed up some of the links that pearsall posted -- like this: http://www.livejournal.com/users/rfmcdpei/564805.html#cutid1 (which states, among other things, that France since the end of the Second Empire has absorbed proportionally as many immigrants as has the U.S. -- not sure if I...

and to state the obvious -- "love of one's own" and "hostility to (or fear of ) others" is at the root of western anxiety concerning the demographic crisis the anxiety is this -- as western countries come to rely on immigrant workers to sustain their wealth and social security programs, then...

don't you mean in terms of the daily life of most europeans, as opposed to the ability of european states to project power? american anxieties are different, however (1) many americans believe that europe continues to fare well under the world system b/c america dominates that system and is...

then he presumably means the economics of "creative destruction"??? perhaps k-punk could clarify his meaning?

they are perhaps clumsy metaphors, but the terms capture: (1) the ability of a state to project financial, economic & military power (2) the perception of other states and the people of the world at large of which states and societies have the most power, and which states are therefore, in...

yes, but at a certain point quantitative change becomes qualitative compare the levels of muslim immigrants that europe will likely absorb in next twenty years with the muslim population in european countries in, say, 1950 -- and you'll have to agree the change drastic and remarkable

i was of course making a general comparison b/w europe and the united states yes, i realize that england has absorbed irish & italian immigrants going back to 19th century and i realize that western europe has absorbed lots of immigrants from former colonies post-1950 but i don't believe that...