“Imprisoning philosophy within the professionalizations and specializations of an institutionalized curriculum, after the manner of our contemporary European and North American culture, is arguably a good deal more effective in neutralizing its effects than either religious censorship or political terror.”
“[T]he structure preface – text becomes open at both ends. The text has no stable identity, stable origin. Each act of reading ‘the text’ is a preface to the next. The reading of a self-professed preface is no exception to this rule.”
“Tenderness between people is nothing other than awareness of the possibility of relations without purpose.”
— Adorno,
“Struwwelpeter” (Shock-headed child), Minima Moralia (1944)
In 1938, one night in winter in Paris, Samuel Beckett was fatally stabbed in the chest
by a man, while walking on the street. After staying
for two weeks
in a hospital, Beckett decided to meet the man in jail and asked why he had attacked him, the man responded: “I don’t know why, sir. I’m so sorry.”
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