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I am into Paul Ricoeur right now, the last he wrote and incredibly pertinent with web culture, starting from its title 'The Course of Recognition', great stuff

My wife's dissertation compared Ricoeur and Franz Rosenzweig's conception of truth...

I am tracing a path between 'recognition', knowledge and Identity/responsability, in telematic space of course,

I m not sure to be Jew enough to get it though

Too bad she wrote her dissertation in the 1970s, before they were put online. There's a copy in the Univ. of Toronto library, a copy on our bookshelf, and that's it.

The overall question she dealt with is: What is the nature of Revelation? For whom is Revelation true? Must truth always be universal? And, ultimately, how does one's religious commitment affect - determine? - the answers to these questions? Fascinating.

as a born again Kantian I would substitute revelation with intuition may be,
a question for her would be,
does she think as possible a religion without a book ?

How to read Deleuze? Don't.

I'm currently reading some old stuff by Antonio Negri, who began as a high-level legal theorist (only in Italy), then went through Marx, Spinoza and Heidegger before finishing up with Deleuze. He has written some great stuff, both in his Marxist phase and later, but a lot of what he wrote is an exercise in taking a hideously complicated source that most of his readers won't have read and making it even more complicated. (His Marxism is mostly out of the Grundrisse rather than Capital.) I'm afraid I can see the attraction of Deleuze only too well.

I deplore, this world cannot determine the truth of Being....can we express any relevance of integrating deconstruction and Heideggerian ontology? Is it possible????