What book(s) are you currently reading?

[atreestump]

I picked up 'The Foucault Reader' today, read the first part about the enlightenment and have nearly finished the first chapter- Truth and Power.

[atreestump]

Just got my copy of Derrida A Critical Reader




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My copy of Derrida by Christopher Norris has arrived, I also have A Companion to Derrida on PDF too




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[notathoughtgiven]

What did you think of the books?

That is something I really need to do again. The last few months have been really busy and I haven't read anything in a while :( So very interested in hearing your opinion for some new books for myself to read :)

[atreestump]

The David Wood book, so far, has been difficult to read. Derrida is perhaps the most complicated philosopher ever. I am looking into something called 'Aporia', which is where language breaks down, it's impossible to speak or act, an irresolvable internal contradiction or logical disjunction in a text, argument, or theory.

I think Derrida focuses on this as a starting point for mystical and religious experiences and exposes a 'secret', which is not a secret in the way we use the word. An everyday secret is just a problem to be solved, that is someone knows the secret and someone else can uncover it and understand it. This secret that Derrida discovers has no time or place, it does and does not have to exist for us to even begin to start looking for it, but there is something secret. Passion can take the place of the secret. That's as far as I got with it and so I have been reading up on this secret and aporia.

I haven't readmuch of the Christopher Norris one, so can't really comment.

The Foucault Reader is far more easy to grasp and I have got to the 3rd or 4th chapter. It's really good and I think he says more or less the same things as Derrida but focuses on bodies in the same way as signs. There is just too much to convey at the moment, I will be opening threads soon about this book.

[notathoughtgiven]

Thank you for taking the time to let me know. I am thinking then the Foucault Reader would be a good book for me to start with.

[atreestump]

It's a simple book to grasp Post Structuralism, also check out Richard Harland - Superstructuralism.

[thetrizzard]

Currently reading 'Ordinary Mind: Exploring the Common Ground of Zen and Psychoanalysis' by Barry Magid.....although Heidegger is not discussed here I see more than ever some similarity between Heidegger's existentialism and Zen, his 'Being-in-the-World' is essentially non-dual

[atreestump]

This is another Eastern book that apparently had an influence on Heidegger. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Book_of_Tea

@"thetrizzard"

I bet you are happier now that you have time to read again!

[thetrizzard]

Definitely, have you had your Wittgenstein & Derrida book delivered yet?


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