Tuesday, June 27, 2006
Action Philosophers #5 features Descartes, Sartre, and Derrida.
A large part of explaining the significance of Sartre amounts to explaining Heidegger, one of those daring Xtreme daredevils.
Those onlookers are Descartes and Husserl.
The comics get several things wrong, but they're still fun. When I first started reading Sartre decades ago, Heidegger was just briefly mentioned as someone who had influenced Sartre, but was too obscure to go into. But now, this comic gets into the ready-to-hand, and appears (can't cram too much into a few comic panels) to ascribe Heidegger's positions contra-Sartre to Sartre himself. The book is neatly balanced by starting with Descartes cogitating the sum out of nothing, and ending with the authors disapearing in a puff of deconstruction. ¶ 7:59 AM
A large part of explaining the significance of Sartre amounts to explaining Heidegger, one of those daring Xtreme daredevils.
Those onlookers are Descartes and Husserl.
The comics get several things wrong, but they're still fun. When I first started reading Sartre decades ago, Heidegger was just briefly mentioned as someone who had influenced Sartre, but was too obscure to go into. But now, this comic gets into the ready-to-hand, and appears (can't cram too much into a few comic panels) to ascribe Heidegger's positions contra-Sartre to Sartre himself. The book is neatly balanced by starting with Descartes cogitating the sum out of nothing, and ending with the authors disapearing in a puff of deconstruction. ¶ 7:59 AM
