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The morality of individuality: from Nietzsche to Oakeshott

The morality of individuality: from Nietzsche to Oakeshott

CONTENTS

  1. Introductory comments
  2. Of universal truths
  3. Of state and society – the politics of faith
    3a. The state as the new idol
    3b. The state and its priests
    3c. The state, its priests – their discourse
    3d. The state and its own populace
    3e. The hierarchy of commanding
    3f. The state as Babel
    3g. The market-place
    3h. The populace
    3i. The values of the market-place and its populace
    3j. Thou-shalt
    3k. The for and against of the masses
    3l. From idolatry to uniformity
    3m. The state as the death of peoples
  4. Forms of state
    4a. The politics of faith versus civil association
    4b. Civil association as a form of state
    4c. Civil association and the question of traditionality
  5. Types of moralities
    5a. The life versus the death of a people
    5b. The rarity of a genuine people
    5c. Of the creative peoples
    5d. Rationalist ideology versus the morality of habit of behaviour
    5e. Of moralities: the anti-individual versus the individual
    5f. The individual as the latest creation
  1. The individual
    6a. The state, and the loss of individuality
    6b. The commencement of the necessary individual
    6c. Existential self-determination
    6d. The loneliest wilderness
    6e. Denial of duty
    6f. The individual as creator of his own values
    6g. The game of creating
    6h. The ego, the body, and the self
    6i. Of the passions, and virtue
    6j. Of virtue and everyday wisdom
    6k. A virtue in common with none else
    6l. The problem of naming one’s own virtue
    6m. Silence, privacy, and the new language of being and becoming
    6n.     The disposition of indifference towards the populace
    6o. The disposition of tolerance towards the many-too-many
  2. Self-organization
    7a. From mass ideology to individual disposition
    7b. Loving yourself as the individualistic disposition
    7c. Living the present as self-organization
    7d. Redeeming the past as self-organization
    7e. Creating the world in one’s likeness – the question of truth
    7f. The over-standing indifference
    7g. The conflict of virtues – pride as self-organization
  3. Of being-in-the-world as an Overman in the history of western civilization

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From Proust’s Aristocracy to Sartre’s Outcasts

CONTENTS

  • Divergent modes of being in the history of the Western world
  • An absurd world
  • The bourgeois masses
  • The elites
  • Manufacturing illusions
  • Guilt-ridden shame
  • Authenticity versus inauthenticity
  • Proust: the anthropologist of a tribe
  • The spirit of an era
  • The spirit of an era, and its understanding of equality
  • The spirit of an era, and the question of vices
  • The bastion of the aristocracy, and its vulnerabilities
  • High society, and the phenomenon of snobbery
  • The bastion of the aristocracy vis-à-vis other elite groups
  • High society vis-à-vis the commoners
  • The fall of the aristocratic milieu
  • Resurrecting the aristocratic ideal
  • The Proustian versus the Sartrean worldview – some introductory remarks
  • The question of time, history, and memory
  • Of things in the world
  • Of the arts
  • Of churches and church buildings
  • For a unitary Western tradition
  • A case of conflicting humanisms
  • Sartrean ethics
  • The carriers of salvation (as opposed to an aristocratic resurrection)
  • Sartrean politics: exploding the system

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Defining the “West”: An orrery of cultural paradigms

Paper 1: Defining the “West”: An orrery of cultural paradigms

Part 1: An attempt at tracing the historical roots of the postmodern humanists

In his very last interview to a reporter, Robert Frost would make the following statement: “I don’t take life very seriously. It’s hard to get into this world and hard to get out of it. And what’s in between doesn’t make much sense. If that sounds pessimistic, let it stand”. It is precisely such “in between” phase which may be said to constitute what André Malraux had referred to as the “human condition”. To understand the “West” – and to attempt to define it through the orrery of cultural paradigms that have come to delineate its history and identity – one would need to commence with that which apparently “doesn’t make much sense”, it being the “human condition”, and as that has been experienced by the so-called “Western” individual. Continue reading "Defining the “West”: An orrery of cultural paradigms"

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4e/cont. – LONDON: SETTLERS, COCKNEYS, AND THE “CITY TYPE”: THE CASE OF “LITTLE INDIA” – EAST HAM

ETHNIC-BASED CINEMAGOING PRACTICES [A CONTINUATION OF PAPER 4e]

Bollywood, Hollywood, and the attitudes of diasporic Muslim “cultural clusters”

Introduction

As has been observed throughout this project on East Ham [and especially in Paper 3 and Paper 4a], the area has also been settled by various Muslim-based “cultural clusters”. An examination of generally ethnic-based cinemagoing practices pertaining to this area and its environs must therefore also consider the case of Muslims and the precise manner in which such particular religious-cultural groupings relate to the world of cinemagoing, be it the projection of Bollywood movies, British movies and/or the Hollywoodian genre. Continue reading "4e/cont. – LONDON: SETTLERS, COCKNEYS, AND THE “CITY TYPE”: THE CASE OF “LITTLE INDIA” – EAST HAM"

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