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somethingclassy t1_is1iy4r wrote

Reply to comment by clairelecric in Bruno Latour posed a major challenge to modern philosophy’s key assumption - a distinction between the human subject and the world. Philosophy as a field is yet to properly understand the importance of his contribution | Graham Harman. by IAI_Admin

Bingo.

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SerKevanLannister t1_is26hzl wrote

Exactly. This is hardly a “new” idea in philosophy, especially if one knows anything about eastern traditions or h*ll philosophy before the 19th century

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hemannjo t1_is3a1tm wrote

There’s a massive difference between ‘having the idea’ and elaborating that idea into a complex and rational theoretical apparatus and situating it within a philosophical problematic. Often we don’t even realise that initial idea was ‘good’ until someone does the actual philosophical work. As pascal pointed out, Augustine had something like the idea cogito, but it was Descartes who was able to use that idea to completely revolutionise philosophy and how we think about the subject.

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Puzzleheaded_Brick34 t1_is5z5yt wrote

These ideas have been already been (more or less) systematized by western thinkers like Heidegger, Lacan, and Deleuze. Subjectivity is pushed to the margins.

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