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Precie to the Dialectic of Historical Critique

An introduction to themes of criticism that should be common, but aren't.

PRECIE TO THE DIALECTIC OF HISTORICAL CRITIQUE I have looked into some critical matters and concluded that not all philosophers are experts in their fields. There are problems such as branding / semanticizing, polemicizing, and revisionism that run deep even in the philosophical mind. One is tempted to conclude that sometimes the weakness, if not the strength of some major theories results from those types of suppositions. For example, although modern for his time and with work that is practically immortalized as a phenomenology, Edmund Husserl poses a metaphysics that does little more than reject some sound assumptions of those that came before him. The theory that people, individuals, are monads (which exists in at least one translation of the Cartesian Meditations by Husserl), has the same realist weaknesses as Kantian metaphysics. It is not, in other words, genuine metaphysics. It does not provide real knowledge about the world, but instead exaggerates existing knowledge as a replacement for the original, larger theory. And, insofar as it does this, it does not develop prior critique. In fact, the statement that these figures are not experts in metaphysics is a figment of egoism. But, where egoism is itself a figment of the valid critique----say a critique that is capable of rejecting faulty progress!----there is no replacing the critical attitude with a dimension that belongs in a prior history. Thus, if there is some thing opposing the validity of the critical attitude, it is an incomprehensibility about time, or a way in which time ablates progress. In order to approach critique, it becomes necessary---or rather, there is a gradual trend, regardless of the validity of the chosen method--- to adopt a post-modern attitude, and then one that is post-post-modern. And unless there is a way to formulate something more ‘modern’ than the post-post-modern, the post-post-modern becomes the most authentic critical attitude, because it is the one most situated in the future. Under this view, one can see Futurism as a nostalgic trope, Cubism as a response to photography, and the avant-garde as a set of tools for addressing the present at any time. An initial theory is to verify / authenticate the theory that exists at any time as a kind of phenomenology or in a more diminished sense, as a psychology of that time. This, however, leads to gaps in information. The present time, one could think, should at least be coherent. One can work specifically on those projects which have been seen as missing from history. This is a new, illuminated attitude of historical revision. Not to accept either the philosophy of this time or the other time, but instead, critically assess what has been missing in both times. In this sense, criticism is not a gradual ‘progress’ ---or worse, ‘deconstruction’ --- but instead a Positivistic tool for assessing the ‘grand status’ of reality qua criticism. Nathan Coppedge, SCSU 4/11/2015, p.
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