/lit/ - Literature

>>20552644
Deleuze, Adorno, late stage Freud, Foucault, Kojeve, and virtually every other onions-structuralist/critical theorist/etc. of that period can be explained by a consistent and dogmatic hatred of the thumotic aspect of the soul. because, a la Strauss's critique of German nihilism, thumos could inspire fascism if taken too far and for the wrong purposes. all these people just want to live like Last Man bugmen, in thrall to the erotic aspect of the soul, with technocratic structures managing all necessities.

that's it. that's the secret. now you can understand them, take what's good, see what they're missing, and discard the rest

Bruckner is under-appreciated