Tuesday, August 25, 2020

Modernity Phase III -- Consciousness is an Illusion


Modernity Phase I (to 1637) (Undermining authority of consciousness) : Shakespeare, Cervantes, Descartes

Modernity Phase II (to 1807) (Discovery of the fundamental estrangement of consciousness from the world outside of itself) : Kant, Hegel 1807 -- The Phenomenology of the Spirt (consciousness fundamentally alienated from the world)

Modernity Phase III (1867--present) (Discovery of the essential inauthenticity of consciousness, that consciousness is determined by factors outside of itself. See "School of suspicion" (1965) below
1. Marx -- consciousness determined by historical/material factors
2. Nietzsche -- consciousness determined by passions
3. Freud -- consciousness determined by the unconscious
 
Fry suggests adding the 4th "hermeneut of suspicion"
4. Darwin ? -- consciousness determined by biological processes



1818 May 5 -- Birth of Karl Heinrich MarxTrierPrussiaGerman Confederation
1844 Oct 15 -- Birth of Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche in RöckenSaxonyPrussia

1848 Feb -- The Manifesto of the Communist Party, Marx

1856 May 6 -- Birth of Sigismund Schlomo Freud, Freiberg in MährenMoraviaAustrian Empire
(now Příbor, Czech Republic)

1859 Nov 24 -- On the Origin of Species, Darwin





1867 -- Das Kapital, Vol. IMarx

1872 -- The Birth of Tragedy from the Spirit of MusicNietzsche
1873 -- Of Truth and Lies in a Nonmoral Sense,Nietzsche
1873 -- Philosophy in the Tragic Age of the Greeks, Nietzsche
1876 -- Untimely MeditationsNietzsche
1878 -- Human, All Too HumanNietzsche

1881 -- The Dawn of DayNietzsche
1882 -- The Gay ScienceNietzsche

1883 -- Death of Marx
1883-1885 -- Thus Spoke ZarathustraNietzsche




1886 -- Beyond Good and EvilNietzsche

1887 -- On the Genealogy of Morality,  Nietzsche

(1888 -- Nietzsche's Last Year of Lucidity)

1888 -- The Case of WagnerNietzsche
1888 -- The Twilight of the Idols, Nietzsche
1888 -- Ecce Homo,Nietzsche
1888 -- The AntichristNietzsche
1888 -- Nietzsche Contra WagnerNietzsche


1891 -- On Aphasia, Freud
1895 -- Studies on Hysteria, Freud


1899 -- The Interpretation of Dreams, Freud

1900 -- Death of Nietzsche


1904 -- The Psychopathology of Everyday Life,  Freud
1905 -- Jokes and Their Relationship to the Unconscious,  Freud
1905 -- Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality,  Freud
1907 -- Delusion and Dreams in Jensen's Gradiva,  Freud
1910 -- Leonardo da Vinci, a Memory of His Childhood,  Freud

1910 -- The Will to Power, notes by Nietzsche published posthumously
A basic element in Nietzsche's philosophical outlook is the "will to power" (der Wille zur Macht), which he maintained provides a basis for understanding human behavior—more so than competing explanations, such as the ones based on pressure for adaptation or survival.As such, according to Nietzsche, the drive for conservation appears as the major motivator of human or animal behavior only in exceptions, as the general condition of life is not one of emergency, of 'struggle for existence.


1913 -- Totem and Taboo: Resemblances between the Psychic Lives of Savages and Neurotics,  Freud
1915-17 -- Introductory Lectures on Psycho-Analysis,  Freud

1920 -- Beyond the Pleasure Principle,  Freud

1921 -- Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego,  Freud
1923 -- The Ego and the Id,  Freud
1926 -- Inhibitions, Symptoms, and Anxiety,  Freud
1926 -- The Question of Lay Analysis,  Freud
1927 -- The Future of an Illusion,  Freud
1930 -- Civilization and Its Discontents,  Freud
1933 -- New Introductory Lectures on Psycho-Analysis,  Freud
1939 -- Moses and Monotheism,  Freud


1939 Sept 23 -- Death of Freud




1965 -- Freud and PhilosophyPaul Ricœur (1913-2005). introduces the School of suspicion.
Jean Paul Gustave Ricœur, 27 February 1913 – 20 May 2005) was a French philosopher best known for combining phenomenological description with hermeneuticsHe came from a family of devout Huguenots (French Protestants), a religious minority in France
"School of suspicion" (Frenchécole du soupçon(also dubbed hermeneutics of suspicion in secondary literature) is a phrase coined by Paul Ricœur in Freud and Philosophy (1965) to capture a common spirit that pervades the writings of Karl MarxSigmund Freud, and Friedrich Nietzsche, the three "masters of suspicion". 
(Rita Felski): "[Marx Freud, and Nietzsche] share a commitment to unmasking 'the lies and illusions of consciousness'; t 
They are the architects of a distinctively modern style of interpretation that circumvents obvious or self-evident meanings in order to draw out less visible and less flattering truths ... 
Ricoeur's term has sustained an energetic after-life within religious studies, as well as in philosophy, intellectual history, and related fields." 

Jacques Derrida was an assistant to Ricœur during the time this was published (early 1960s 

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