"Eine neue Generation deutscher Philosophen"
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Stuart Jeffries, Foreign Policy: Verdirbt Richard David Precht die Deutsche Philosophie? - "Aber Precht lässt das kalt. Als einer der berühmtesten und gefragtesten Figuren einer neuen deutschen Philosophiewelle argumentiert er, dass die moderne Philosophie, um relevant zu bleiben, von ihrem Elfenbeinturm herunterkommen und mit der Masse in Kontakt treten muss."
German Philosophy Has Finally Gone Viral. Will That Be Its Undoing?
German Philosophy Has Finally Gone Viral. Will That Be Its Undoing?
But Precht is unrepentant. As one of the most prominent — and sought after — figures in a new wave of German philosophy, he has argued that in order for the discipline to remain relevant, it must come down from the ivory tower and commune with the masses. As a student in Cologne in the early 1990s, Precht envisioned a world in which philosophers would be seen as fascinating people living exhilarating and uncompromising lives. His generation of idealized contemporaries would forge their own path, and their ideas would bear little similarity to the “ineffectual academic philosophy” of his professors, who were “boring middle-aged gentlemen in pedestrian brown or navy suits.”WHAT RICHARD PRECHT WANTS TO ACHIEVE AS A TV PHILOSOPHER
Pleased to see a mention of Rüdiger Safranski, author of my beloved Schopenhauer and the Wild Years of Philosophy.
posted by thelonius at 3:40 AM on August 16, 2017
posted by thelonius at 3:40 AM on August 16, 2017
Meanwhile Jodo has for ages been posting on FB - philosophy, gifs, little videos of himself being strange (which one of his family members is posting)
posted by yoHighness at 4:20 AM on August 16, 2017
posted by yoHighness at 4:20 AM on August 16, 2017
Precht envisioned a world in which philosophers would be seen as fascinating people living exhilarating and uncompromising lives.Wants to be a rock star, doesn't want to learn the guitar.
“ineffectual academic philosophy” of his professors, who were “boring middle-aged gentlemen in pedestrian brown or navy suits.”
posted by Horkus at 4:54 AM on August 16, 2017 [4 favorites]
Wants to be a rock star, doesn't want to learn the guitar.
Precht was asked about this:
posted by No Robots at 10:54 AM on August 16, 2017 [1 favorite]
Precht was asked about this:
Berliner Morgenpost: Do you ever suffer due to women enjoying you on television, and men seeing you rather as a superficial zeitgeist philosopher?Academic philosophy has its own interests and preoccupations. It has deliberately rejected any notion of responsibility for communication with those not forming part of its own society. Professors whining about how philosophy is undertaken outside their purview is just the flip side of non-academics whining about how academic philosophy is nothing but the dead burying the dead. The living and dead should part ways, and the popularizers like Precht and de Botton should continue their work. It is important that access to philosophy not be monopolized by an academic priesthood. As the Spinozist Harry Waton puts it, "[a]s philosophy finds in the proletariat its material weapon, so the proletariat finds in philosophy its spiritual weapon" (A Program for the Jews, an answer to all anti-semites, a program for humanity).
Richard David Precht: If you had told me during puberty that it would come to this, that women find me attractive on TV! I don’t suffer at all. And I understand men, even intellectual, very clever men, who see me and dislike me immediately. Usually there is a strict division between the humanistic world and the aesthetic, marketed world. When someone is successful in both worlds, it naturally arouses suspicion.
posted by No Robots at 10:54 AM on August 16, 2017 [1 favorite]
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