/lit/ - Literature

>>2049958
I'm slightly weary of Harman because he's behind this whole speculative realism thing which feels a little pointlessly Kantian in its reductiveness. I suppose this would jar a little with Heidegger's thinking. What were your exact thoughts on his treatment?

>>2049959
Fair enough, if you're coming from a strong analytical background. I've started to see the uselessness of many of the Foucaultian and Deleuzian projects, particularly now that the Isreali special forces now use Deleuzian tracts on the structuralism of space to conceptualize mission planning (have no moral objection to this, just feel it's all gone a little far and in weird and pointless directions with these developments). That said, I feel that Heidegger had some interesting things to say particularly as regards Kantian stuff and his views regarding Ancient philosophy. His ontology is now a sort of mysticism which is distinctly (and I've heard he plagiarized Dogen a bit here) an Eastern philosophy sort of thing, less logical than intuitive but no less meaningful as a result.