Heidegger: Being and Time

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You can find Being and Time here https://amzn.to/3Qmsy4X Dada was the mirror image of the Vienna Circle; both were concerned with the claims of reason after the spiritual apocalypse of WWI. Dada and the Vienna Circle were spiritual inverses, intellectual bookends. Reason was diabolical or angelic, making perfect sense the ultimate achievement or the ultimate disgrace. Dada had a sense of humor, amoral and daft but sometimes amusing, while the logical positivists were unintentionally funny because after all their ponderous Wagnerian gestures about perfect linguistic precision, the permanent achievement of an ultimate Cartesian clarity, these intellectual Bismarcks who intended to unify science rather than Germany were blindsided. Those who wrote manifestoes for a “strong” unification of all the sciences and the derivation of all mathematics from logic got a pie in the face from the all too rigorous Godel and another from Heisenberg and his unruly electrons. This jellied their rigorous precision into a gooey perspectival pragmatism and a new low calorie epistemology appeared on the intellectual menu: American pragmatism, or Positivism in Aspic, like Dewey or Rorty. Yet Carnap and his science touts did some good. Logical positivism might be thought of as an attempt by a Viennese science worship cult to algorithmically bid all other thinkers to stop pretending they were talking. In the case of Heidegger, given his influence and complicity with the Nazi regime, this was arguably a noble aspiration. This is the official YouTube channel of Dr. Michael Sugrue. Please consider subscribing to be notified of future videos, as we upload Dr. Sugrue's vast archive of lectures. Dr. Michael Sugrue earned his BA at the University of Chicago and PhD at Columbia University.