Word: hegelizing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...torturous business, this effort to "discover the mind," as the prolific Princeton philosopher-photographer-literateur Walter Kaufmann makes clear in this second volume (on Nietzshe, Heidegger and Buber) of his trilogy on the roots of contemporary social philosophy (the first dealt with Goethe, Kant and Hegel). Nietzsche, Goethe, Freud, respectively philosopher, poet and psychiatrist, have contributed, each in his own fashion, to our understanding of ourselves...
...Freud," Kaufmann insists, "because he offered far more than the scattered insights that we find in Shakespeare or even Dostoevsky, and he was a psychologist in a sense in which even Goethe could not be called one ... Except for Freud, professional psychologists have contributed far less than have Goethe, Hegel and Nietzsche [to the discovery of the mind...
...Gilliam, Jones and Palin, complete with a Three Stooges pine board and lots of cream pies; a filmed retelling of the Little Red Riding Hood legend, with Cleese as Ms. Hood and the rest as seedy rapists; and best of all, another filmed skit wherein the German philosophers (Hegel, Heidegger, Nietzsche, et. al.) played soccer against the Greek philosophers (Socrates, Plato, Archimedes, etc.). In appropriate costumes, they dashed onto the field and fell immediately into deep personal contemplation, until Archimedes yelled "Eureka!" and scored. The Germans disputed the goal, claiming it may have existed only in the imagination...
DIED. Walter Kaufmann, 59, German-born professor of philosophy at Princeton, whose biographical and interpretive studies of 19th century German thinkers (Hegel, Nietzsche) and literary and philosophical anthologies (Existentialism from Dostoyevsky to Sartre) have been handbooks for both undergraduates and scholars; of a ruptured aorta; in Princeton...
When King does attempt his own thesis, applying not only Freud, but Hegel, Weber, Neitzshe, Levi-Strauss, and Marx to the Southern burden, his grandiose designs appear pretentious at best, silly at worst. Almost randomly, King inserts short paragraphs alluding to Levi-Strauss's Elementary Structures of Kinship to back up his thesis on incest as repetition. King is not afraid, unfortunately, to make sweeping one-line statements about Freud's memory theories or characterize, without explaining, Cash as the "Weberian ideal type." King incessantly refers to these sociological and psychological giants with college freshman zeal: proud of his discovery...