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Thinking in the face of global catastrophes
Thinking always means resisting the temptation to thoughtlessly align oneself with the opinions that are currently in vogue. That is why all thinking is an act of resistance. When non-self-thinking becomes the imperative of a social context, totalitarianism threatens. It is essential to hold on to freedom and equality as political axioms and goals, even if one is critical of the tradition of enlightenment. For a long time, Enlightenment can only be Enlightenment that enlightens itself about itself = a way of thinking that includes itself in the drama of the dialectic of Enlightenment together with its blindness. Critical self-inclusion of thinking in the history of the tyranny of its concepts is the least that thinking can achieve. Not by renouncing conceptual stringency, but through the willingness to do it again and again in new attempts instead of thinking in short bursts.
Note: Free places can also be filled spontaneously.
Copyright: Tim Berresheim
Thinking in the face of global catastrophes
Thinking always means resisting the temptation to thoughtlessly align oneself with the opinions that are currently in vogue. That is why all thinking is an act of resistance. When non-self-thinking becomes the imperative of a social context, totalitarianism threatens. It is essential to hold on to freedom and equality as political axioms and goals, even if one is critical of the tradition of enlightenment. For a long time, Enlightenment can only be Enlightenment that enlightens itself about itself = a way of thinking that includes itself in the drama of the dialectic of Enlightenment together with its blindness. Critical self-inclusion of thinking in the history of the tyranny of its concepts is the least that thinking can achieve. Not by renouncing conceptual stringency, but through the willingness to do it again and again in new attempts instead of thinking in short bursts.
Note: Free places can also be filled spontaneously.
Copyright: Tim Berresheim
