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Trick Mirror is quite fun. It’s not a particular book, but nothing has more radically altered the way I think about thinking than the work of Theodor Adorno (a
by voidhorse 7y ago
Trick Mirror is quite fun.
It’s not a particular book, but nothing has more radically altered the way I think about thinking than the work of Theodor Adorno (and to a certain extent, Horkheimer). I had, prior to reading their work, a tendency to think of thinking as an activity that occurs with quite a definite shape, in quite a well-circumscirbed space. They really exploded the concept for me and broadened my considerations about thought, how it works, what different forms it can take, and that most of the time, it’s more like a peice of music than it is a rational or practical sequence of arguments, and that the societal patterns and forces that attempt to fix your thought into a limited sequence of statements are in fact instances of control impinging itself upon you. This is not to say “don’t be rational” but it is to say there are definte thresholds upon which thought crosses over from the plane of a genuine “thinking through” into an “idiomaticity” or a “thinking about” — a preconception, a repetition, a bias.
- cardamomo 7y agoWhat book or books would you recommend as a starting place for someone wishing to explore these concepts? Is there one Adorno ir Horkeimer I should start with?
- deepaksurti 7y agoTrick Mirror [1] reference in GP comment. [1] https://www.amazon.com/Trick-Mirror-Self-Delusion-Jia-Tolentino/dp/0525510540 https://www.amazon.com/Trick-Mirror-Self-Delusion-Jia-Tolent...
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- maleno 7y ago'Dialectic of Enlightenment' might be a good place to start when it comes to thinking about thinking. If you want something a bit more fragmented/playful/debatable, then 'Minima Moralia' would be interesting. 'The Culture Industry' is well worth reading too.
- Der_Einzige 7y agoOh boy! The guy who hates jazz! French postmodernism is not the right place to go for epistemology
- voidhorse 7y agoHaha, no doubt his career is not free of blemishes. I disagree on the second point. Lyotard’s The Postmodern Condition is imo the most important work on epistemology of the last century.