Arquivo para February 1st, 2017
Supper of the ashes
01
Feb
The original name of the work of Giordano Bruno is La cena de las cenizas (in Italian: La cena 
de le ceneri), what he proposes in this work is a conception of the world, if today we see the planet and the whole universe as “our home” , Giordano Bruno was one of the first to see this as well.
Giordano Bruno’s theories far surpassed those of Copernicus, proposed that the sun is simply a star, that the universe may contain an infinite number of inhabited worlds with intelligent beings and animals, member of the Dominican Order, studied St. Thomas Aquinas and developed A different cosmic theory of church thought at the time, and was accused of pantheism and doomed by the Inquisition.
But from a strictly religious standpoint his controversies were as to transubstantiation in the Eucharist, the Trinity, the incarnation of Christ, and the virginity of Mary.
He influenced thinkers like Spinoza and died at the stake with the respect of many.
In his book The Supper of Ashes declared: “The Earth and the stars …, as they dispense life and food to things, restoring all matter which they lend, are themselves endowed with life, to a much greater extent; And being alive, it is in a voluntary, orderly and natural way, according to an intrinsic principle, that they move towards the things and spaces that suit them, “since Galileo was already repaired, Still higher in relation to Giordano Bruno.
It is Ash Wednesday, and it is not bad if we could go beyond hypocrisy and proselytism to actually speak in dialogue, comprehensively both in the religious field and in the ideological field, but the inquisitors survive even though God has nothing to do with it.
Neither sun neither death
01
Feb
What we see with Trump, British Conservative thought (BRExit) and
French (elections this year with even the extreme right chances to come to power), can in economic terms mean a return to the Wealth of Nations period (classic work of Adam Smith In the year 1776), but there are other possible analyzes and Sloterdijk is one of them.
I read and had to paralyze the reading of the Critique of Cynical Reason for the forcefulness of the work, but gradually I returned realizing that its main endeavor was a critique of “false consciousness” of the Habermasian theory, and I also see it now as the best post -frankfurtians, a post-Marxist school born in the USA that influenced the 60’s (Marcuse, Erich Fromm and others), also lead years not only in Brazil, but in the East and in much of Europe, see the demonstrations in Paris.
In the late 1980s Peter Sloterdijk launched Critique of Cynical Reason, two decades after going to the Indica to study Eastern philosophy, he followed in an up-to-date fashion the steps of Schopenhauer (1788-1640) and Niesztche (1844-1900), and with philosophical works equally “post-illuminist” and critics of modern rationalism.
Now his readers’ interest is in his books on politics and globalization in his trilogy of the already published in portuguese Spheres I: Bubbles, work of 1998; and the next releases in Portuguese is Spheres II: Globes, and after Spheres III: Foams, he was writed in 2004.
In Neither Sun nor Death, Sloterdijk respond his fellow german writer Hans-Jurgen Heinrichs, commenting on issues such as technology mutation, media development, communication technologies.
Also has a good introduction to Sloterdijk´s thinking abourt theory of globalization, and a good critique of the neo-illuminism french currents represented by Giles Deleuze, Paul Virilio and Gabriel Tarde, and also makes connections with heidegger and the indian mystic Osho Rajneesh.
