Kenneth Smith: Email List Highlights

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Kenneth Smith Email List Highlights

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Here are selected Highlights from Kenneth Smith's Email List:

CRYPTO-REVOLUTION OF OUR AGE

Secrets and Lies Becoming Commonplace

Young Children And Babies Used As Lab Rats In Drug Trials

Wal-Mart's Power Begins to Frighten America

NYTimes.com Article: New York's Watery New Grave

ALI G / THE WIDOW OF SAINT-PIERRE / THE ALAMO

EXISTENZ

New Book: Singer, "The President of Good and Evil: The Ethics of George W. Bush" (Amazon.com)

jeremiads and syntheses, etc.

jeremiads and syntheses, cont'd.

SOCRATIC ARISTEIA IN PLATO'S APOLOGY

Still e-active after all these years

your reply to my 'still e-active after all these years'

Ambrose Bierce and the delusions of an ego-besotted society / letter #13 to Tim Morton

Politics and Truth

Adjunctification: a second-class slave professoriate, exploited to keep students happy and colleges

Philosophical spirit

Darwin-Free Fun for Creationists

America's Deep, Dark Secret

We have a cognitive bias to see ourselves in a more positive light than others see us.

Eastern seaboard on the bat-out-of-hell tempo

John Shirley on neurotoxia

NAZISM AND MODERN SOCIETY

MORE ON DOULOI, BANAUSOI, ARISTOI: WHAT "LOGIC" MEANS

MORE ON DOULOI, BANAUSOI, ARISTOI: MORE YET

Don't get any ideas... I doubt this would work in America

Ideology

More on Ideology and Demonic Ideas: the Vices of Modernity

Humanists are insecure, unfriendly snots

Claims that Nietzsche went mad from venereal disease are disputed

Letter to Tim Morton # 12

RICK HOWE / TYPICAL STUDIES 3

Hello From A Former Student

The theatre of memory

"It raises the question, how free is free will?"

RICK HOWE 4 (continuing from TYPICAL STUDIES 3)

LANGUAGE IN DANGER

Victor Davis Hanson

The bad weather over America

Scientist puts odds for apocalypse at 50-50 (Reuters/Yahoo! UK)

AAADD / AND THE REVENGE OF A BANAUSIC LIFE

Recommendations on ancient Geek culture

More on and about ancient Geek culture

(fwd) NAZISM AND MODERN SOCIETY / part I

(fwd) NAZISM AND MODERN SOCIETY / part II

(fwd) NAZISM AND MODERN SOCIETY / part III

MODERN ECONOMISM: CAPITALIST APOLLONIANISM, SUPRASTRUCTURES

Vital/Less-than-vital/Categorizing the individual or their behavior?

Nazism and Modern Society / Form and Matter

Idealism and modern alienation

Temperament Wars / Philosophy and Politics

A JULY HIATUS / READ THIS / MORE ON PHILOSOPHY

Temperament Wars / CULTURE, APOLLONIAN AND DIONYSIAN

SPARTA / FYI--read now

Mechanics, Zeno and Hawking undergo revision

Luciana Bohne: Learning to Be Stupid in the Culture of Cash

Malthusian imponderables about the futility of culture

conservatism can be explained psychologically as a set of neuroses

THE PROTESTANT WORK-ETHIC AND THE LEGITIMATION OF MODERN SOCIOLOGY

From de Profundis

Hegel explains how individuals are linked together

GRACE, FATE & AMYTHIA--1st part / ON RELIGION

Turner hybris / hubris

Postmodernism is obsessed by the body and terrified of biology.

People embrace conservatism to reduce fear, anxiety and uncertainty

REFLECTIONS ON CHOMSKY'S NECESSARY ILLUSIONS

...believed that the unwashed masses were not fit for either truth or liberty...

Kafka concentrates on what is not shared, what is profoundly unshareable

David Walsh on Nietzsche

The political acuity of Orwell and Hobsbawm

The Theory of Levels of Human Existence

There was no Greek word for "family"

Greetings From One of your Third-World Students

Thank you for your gracious and insightful reply

If you will allow me to continue my effort to understand.

I do not want you to misunderstand my last e-mail

Let us try to start over on the original question.

Greetings from the third world country of Luzeeana.

Legally Programming Companies To Act Psychopathic

IRRATIONALIST CHARACTEROLOGICAL MORALITIES

Kierkegaard and Hegel

Job Lot

The most pathetic Passion / Pseudo-Christianity part 1

The most pathetic Passion / Pseudo-Christianity part 2

A CONCISE COURSE IN PHILOSOPHY AS A FORM OF CULTURE SHOCK / part I

A CONCISE COURSE IN PHILOSOPHY AS A FORM OF CULTURE SHOCK / part II

Stop Teaching My Kid.

Bible's sexual morality would surprise many

John Shirley on the spiritual convenience-store

New Book: Fleming, "The Morality of Everyday Life"

CONTRA-KANT

WHY HEGEL?

THE PASSION OF THE IDIOT: SELF-CRUCIFIXION FAILS

Re: WHY HEGEL?

Fw: Agree or Delete

[Fwd: Fw: Agree or Delete] / The Deletion of the Disagreement

Stupidity

INSTITUTE BENJAMENTA

Minotauria II # 245: "The Skin is an Organ" part 1

Minotauria II # 245: "The Skin is an Organ" part 2

rdg, writing and....'rithmatic

ALL OF LIFE IS POLITICS

Postmodern ironism

Fwd: Greetings from the third world country of Luzeeana.

DOULEIA part 1

DOULEIA part 2

BANAUSEIA

ARISTEIA part 1

ARISTEIA part 2

Thoughts from Kurt Vonnegut...

Philosophical Praxis / G.B. Achenbach -- a critique (part I)

Philosophical Practice / Achenbach -- a critique (part II)

An approximately brief note 1

An approximately brief note 2

Veblen, Marx, Hegel

Angelic Charley?

Greece vs China / and Kantian modernism

Greek class/character types & proportions

more yet on Greek class/character types etc.

random interjection

assorted recent emails

unnecessary diatribe

(your thoughts on) pirsig & metaphysics of quality

Who decides which values will be called moral values?

Essays and commentary

Very vulgar but otherwise right-on funny

ORWELL, THOREAU, CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY

Apollo and Dionysos in THE ALEXANDRIA QUARTET

MORE: THE IDEOLOGY OF THE CANCER CELL AND THE TOXIC WASTE

EASING INTO THE WINTER OF NIHILISM

"MORE": (A) DOULOI AND THE MODERN BAD INFINITE

On the floodtide of ad hominems: when idiots are blooming

parrehseia

Saecula: cycles and epochs in the history of civilizations

Daughters and granddaughters

RELIGIOSITY, CHRISTIANITY AND CULTURE

THE CULTURE WAR IS REAL, AND IT'S ABOUT MODERNITY

NIHILISMUS-FUNNIES: Life considered as a cartoon of a life

Response to a review of Ivan Brunetti

Responses and reactions from THE COMICS JOURNAL's readers

Fiore's reply to your reply to Fiore's response to...

You can't wear me out

INDIVIDUATION AND THE ABSOLUTE by Sean Kelly

Mea Culpa

Jenseits von Gut und Boese

The Market-Culture of Idiotism

HUMOR AND WIT, once again

OSCAR WILDE

WILLIAM BLAKE

FRANZ KAFKA

KARL KRAUS

kernel of thought / SELF-KNOWING

Black Thursday Boycott

THE MADNESS OF KING GEORGE II

THE CLASSICS IN THE SLUMS

The Rapture, Douloi and Banausoi

RELIGION OF, BY AND FOR THE MOST PITIFUL

I particularly like No. 3.

Aristeia among the banausoi, or philosophy for sale

Beyond Belief (Atlantic Monthly)

Ward Churchill (Village Voice)

The Truth About Harvard (Atlantic Monthly)

group minds

You're not going to believe this.

Philosophy - Atheism

WHOROLOGY: THE HISTORY OF ACCOMMODATIONS TO HUMAN NATURE

Delusion

A Culture of Death, Not Life

BRAZIL: RELIGION OF THE POOR

A long thing about values, character and hybris

the implications of relativism and a pound more or less (part 1)

the implications of relativism and a pound more or less (part 2)

More about values, character and hybris--and nihilism

The repressiveness of Christianity (part 1)

The repressiveness of Christianity (part 2)

A working vocabulary of some of my terms

The finite and the infinite

Capitalism as a system of ideology (part 1)

Capitalism as a system of ideology (part 2)

ISSUES AND FORMS OF CHARACTER

CHARACTER: 13 introductions to the same subject

Reading List on the Greeks

Classical rhetorical modes: ethos, logos, pathos (part 1)

Classical rhetorical modes: ethos, logos, pathos (part 2)

KITSCH, KOOL-AID AND THOMAS KINKADE

Imagine an Aesopian anticulture

Writing, thinking, seeing

Re: The Truth About Harvard (Atlantic Monthly)

Diagnostic documentary: THE CORPORATION

A new Sappho poem

Some reflections about false consciousness

Nihilism once again, and fascism; and a lot about Aristotle

Why Philosophy? part I.A.

I.B. More on "Why Philosophy?" (part 1)

I.B. More on "Why Philosophy?" (part 2)

II. The right way and the objectivity of values

III. Life, theory, values, God, Christianity

IV. Human nature and divine law

Domination & exploitation

I'm just curious, how does it feel?

Mr. Wordsmith

The Groves of Academe

25 Questions About the Murder of New Orleans

Hegel

Pathos

Rorty on Postmodern Angst (part 1)

Rorty on Postmodern Angst (part 2)

Rorty on Postmodern Angst (part 3)

Rorty and your personal reminiscences of LSU

Rorty on Postmodern Angst / SISYPHUS

Type C vs Type M: the Battle of the Brains / Ad Hominem

Coagulated marginalia from Hunter's CULTURE WARS

Paradigms Glossed: Christianity and Darwinism in the US

James Davison Hunter, CULTURE WARS: on a de-monopolized school system (part 1)

James Davison Hunter, CULTURE WARS: on a de-monopolized school system (part 2)

TWO ICEBERG-DEMENTIAS COLLIDING IN THE NIGHT AND FOG

War on Science

THE DEADLY EPIDEMIC OF BOURGEOIS MIND-FLU

Happy St. Kenneth's Day!

More and more infinities

Lawrence Durrell's TUNC

A debate between Nietzsche and Buddha (part 1)

A debate between Nietzsche and Buddha (part 2)

The bourgeois era and its noxious cultural atmosphere

Zen Judaism

Zen Judaism, an addendum--on dialectical intelligence

Dribblings, droolings, drivel and d'mentias

Legimus, ne legantur (Lactantius)

The way of the world and the willful ways of human mentality

Character-types ancient and modern

Supremely Christian Artist Also Paradigmatically American Businessman

WWII and Thanks

Aristeia, Christianity, capitalism

Re: WWII and Thanks, Aristeia, Christianity, capitalism

Will, fate, freedom

Will, fate, freedom II: some addenda

Ancient / medieval / modern

More ancient, medieval, modern

Free Will and Determinism

Phenomenality, evidence, objectivity, truth

LEGION OF LITTLE HELPERS IN THE GUT (part 1)

LEGION OF LITTLE HELPERS IN THE GUT (part 2)

Is Hygiene Making Us Sick? / an afternote to my remarks

Philip Rieff deceased / remarks and an exposition, part I

Philip Rieff deceased / remarks and an exposition, part II

About our political culture & political psychology, first part

About our political culture & political psychology, second part

About our political culture & political psychology, third part

About our political culture & political psychology, fourth part

Quintessentially and profoundly crackbrained

Mythic Desperation (part 1)

Mythic Desperation (part 2)

Hegelian forces on the field of modern politics and culture

Basics on character and nihilism (part 1)

Basics on character and nihilism (part 2)

Distance, authenticity, immediacy & lived-in time (part 1)

Distance, authenticity, immediacy & lived-in time (part 2)

Distance, authenticity, immediacy & lived-in time (part 3)

Character types and modern history

Ideological culture; character-types and their limits (part 1)

Ideological culture; character-types and their limits (part 2)

From Kurt Vonnegut... 'Your Guess Is as Good as Mine.' (part 1)

From Kurt Vonnegut... 'Your Guess Is as Good as Mine.' (part 2)

HERACLITEIA

KAFKA AND HERACLITUS

HERACLITUS THE DARK: The Torrent of Time

Heraclitus: character-types in their socio-political vicissitudes

The cultures of quality and quantity: modernity and character

Modern culture versus the concept of character

Character and soulcraft / "War is the father of all things"

Heraclitus: The way up and the way down

A character question

Chomsky

Plato, politics, aristeia and banauseia

Soul and spirit and ego (part 1)

Soul and spirit and ego (part 2)

Soul and spirit and ego, ... and Tao

Perhaps the most profound counsel I've ever read in an advice column...

Jane Austen and Publishers Today

Aristic character & admiration: I. Psychological chemistry among the types

Aristic character and admiration: II. A Political Psychology or logos of the psyche

Aristic character & admiration: III. Brief Notes about Aristeia

Hegel and Banauseia (part 1)

Hegel and Banauseia (part 2)

CAPTIVES OF THE TYRANNICAL FEELING-LIFE

MEGALOEGOMANIA AND BANAUSEIA

An experiment in idiotia

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