Comments on: Dead Philosophers Are Maddeningly Unhelpful

By: Fayyaz

Fayyaz — Tue, 23 Nov 2010 15:07:37 +0000

Please don’t judge all philosophy by Simon Critchley. He is a recognised idiot amongst proper philosophers and gives the field a bad name. Your review is spot on. If you really want to find out about old philosophy, try Gottlieb’s “The Dream of Reason”.

By: b

Thu, 09 Apr 2009 03:37:51 +0000

It should be noted that the teacher/closed mouth humor continues to the bear comment by critchley’s self-obit. It is an obscure stage direction from shakespeare.

By: Boris

Boris — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 01:01:54 +0000

This is the first and last time reading Exile. You remind me of those drunken gopniks, who laugh when somebody falls in Moscow metro, instead of offering a helping hand. Your creed is angst, anxiety, and loserdoom, and it does not matter that you live in L.A. or Leningrad, American or Russian, your kind negates life as it is. So do us a favour will you, leave our world behind.

By: Jim

Jim — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 10:46:57 +0000

Didn’t Camus wrap his car around a lightpole?

By: bxw

bxw — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 02:15:05 +0000

@Salvor Hardin

HA HA HA HA

Jesus ….. or in the words of the late WESLEY WILLIS: Cut that mullet jerk!

By: Carpenter

Carpenter — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 16:11:56 +0000

So much that is said to be good is really dreg. You are tempted to become cynical, and cynicism always looks smart. But there really are things worth knowing, or at least thinking about, in philosophy. The problem is that when philosophers are professionals, they have to keep writing to sell more books, right? So you get so much dreg. Short quotes from each philosopher is usually enough to learn all about the points he made. Let someone else do the work, and read the summary on the internet.

By: FOARP

FOARP — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 14:03:31 +0000

@BXW – I hear on the Great Gatsby, biggest pile of poo lauded as classic novel around.

By: misterfricative

misterfricative — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 02:37:18 +0000

“I’m not afraid of death, I’m afraid of being forgotten.” Starbuck.

By: ak47

ak47 — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 13:57:06 +0000

Syphillis doesn’t remove the mouth – Nietzsche had the most incredibly cool mustache of the history of mankind. don’t take my word for it, look it up… it’s worth it

By: Neilius

Neilius — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 11:10:52 +0000

Brilliant, utterly brilliant! A fabulously written article! Where did you learn to write so spectacularly well? Seriously, I want to know.

By: mechagodzilla

mechagodzilla — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 07:11:51 +0000

Reading a book about this kind of shit is just like any other kind of consumable porn: a masturbatory aid, and nothing more.

By: Salvor Hardin

Salvor Hardin — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 06:42:04 +0000

This guys has the real philosophy:
http://www.youtube.com/user/inmendham

http://www.vloggerheads.com/video/video/listForContributor?screenName=3optht0q6ygfg

http://donotgod.ning.com/video/video/listForContributor?screenName=3optht0q6ygfg

By: Baked Dr. Luny

Baked Dr. Luny — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 00:43:28 +0000

Wouldn’t it be nice if serious books about philosophy got published and read, instead of this pop-philosophy bullshit that pulls a happy ending out of it’s ass.

By: bxw

bxw — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 00:35:19 +0000

Just like my third reading of THE GREAT GATSBY, I don’t understand how people get through these door stoppers (maybe not so much a brick in Fitzgerald’s case) after discovering … less than half way through … that the book’s a real pile of shit. Or maybe these reviewers don’t get through to the end, either, like us normal people.