Marvin Farber gives a lecture on Edmund Husserl and his phenomenology. This talk was given in 1959 at Cooper Union in New York. #philosophy #husserl #phenomenology #epistemology
Does anyone else listen to these lectures and mourn the loss of philisophical academia? It's like we stopped thinking and now just study. Where are the new brands of philosophy? I don't mean Nick Land or analyzing if AI is going to kill us. Does anyone have suggestions or is philosophy dead?
Are you alluding to a loss of critical thinking across academic disciplines in universities, generally speaking? The best universities still encourage the study of analytic philosophy alongside other academic disciplines to foster critical thinking skills. However, independence and freedom of thought has long been hijacked by the ‘PC’ brigade and other ‘dogmatists’.
I think if one reads journals outside the main publishing contemporary analytic philosophy (e.g. jop, ppr, analysis, mind, etc.) Most of which all seem mostly to publish responses to what are seen now as good analytic responses to some perennial set of problems, and read, say, literature queer theory, rhetoric and the like journals, you will find original thinking, since these do not have as their niche such ‘perennial problems’. Which perennial problem btw was a problem Husserl was concerned with in the problematic ‘crisis of the European sciences’. But also there’s a lot of good thinking of more sidelined analytic philosophy, for instance of group intentionality. Anyway too, the like of Anscombe and Sellars, say, are by no unoriginal thinkers.
I do know what you mean but may I give you an ironic reply? You ask for who is writing 'original' philosophy now. Why? Is it so you can "stop thinking and now just study" it? But on a serious note, there is nothing wrong with studying what great thinkers have already thought if just to know what has been done, before embarking on one's own thinking; it supports one's own thinking. Of course there can be too much study, which can then cripple one's own thinking. I do believe that ultimately, the point of such study is to be able to contribute something original and worthwhile. But it is of course very difficult since human intellectual thought has already lasted millennia and by the greatest minds no less. I struggle with this myself.
