/lit/ - Literature

>>23161694
He was very favorable towards late Husserl in his letters to Voegelin.

>>22739722
I don't know how that squares with what he says about Husserl and Plato/Aristotle here in a letter to Voegelin in 1943.
>>22740368
This is my first post in the thread but I remember talking to you before. Funnily Rosen highly admired Kojeve for some reason. It's Rosen who ends up in the company of Kojeve and Nietzsche despite metaphysics. Reflections on Nihilism (1968) is very revealing.

>Thus man can know the truth about himself, with respect both to his end and his incompleteness, but he cannot, by virtue of the nature of that truth, possess a 'systematic' or 'complete' account of it. The truth is that, instead of solving his problems,and thereby incurring the disaster of a 'final solution', man must reconcile himself to a perpetual process of approximations, of prudential adjustments and accommodations, sometimes in the direction of daring, sometimes of caution. But these approximations are not directed toward an infinitely distant, and so infinitely inaccessible, goal of progressive perfection; for that would amount to having no goal at all, and so to approximating to nothing, or to Nihilism. The goal is accessible but unaccomplishable; man can understand that his nature would be fulfilled in a completely rational speech satisfying his desire as such, if it were not the case that such a speech would, when completed, destroy his nature.

It is a bizarre avowal of Hegelianized Jewish nihilism and what I would have to call inverted Buddhism, and completely self-contradictory in result and arbitrary in reasoning. I mention this because we have similar interests.

>>22739511
The non-complete-retards and -cowards of the world (Chinese, Russians, Palestinians, et alia) are making it. You aren't going to theorycel your way to a viable future.