On the Ashes of Post-Modernism: A New Realism. A Conference with Umberto Eco

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  • Опубликовано: 17 окт 2024

Комментарии • 42

  • @HamzaTheHistorian
    @HamzaTheHistorian 3 года назад +11

    I dont care what he is even talking about (i do), but I could just listen to his voice forever and ever as it is so soothing.

  • @nyarlantothep9555
    @nyarlantothep9555 6 лет назад +20

    this presentations shows how long a man must go in order to call for common sense in today's thought.

  • @spookybuk
    @spookybuk 5 лет назад +4

    I love this man. He is my hero. What a great video. Reality is what kicks you in the ass. Umberto Eco is our new God. Amem.

    • @chopin65
      @chopin65 4 года назад +1

      No. Do not have gods, have logic, have science, and most of all: THINK.

    • @stoneageprude3021
      @stoneageprude3021 2 года назад +1

      @@chopin65 let a man have his god

  • @paulmahon7703
    @paulmahon7703 8 лет назад +11

    Requiescat in pace Umberto grazie!

  • @abeerkhatoon1971
    @abeerkhatoon1971 3 года назад +2

    Molto grazie, Eco !

  • @glennewell2436
    @glennewell2436 2 года назад +5

    An American 'idea' reproduced 'on a French license' is so funny and yet so close to the truth it makes my head spin.

  • @WonHyo69
    @WonHyo69 2 года назад +4

    I loved listening to this but found the questions painful. Starting with a request for questions but resulting in five minute comment. I wish people would ask genuine questions not take that as an opportunity to show how clever they are personally. Great talk though.

  • @rantym35
    @rantym35 7 лет назад +3

    Irak invasion and all external invasions of other countries and also the fight against diversity killed post modernism but from the ashes a new realism will revive, we need it to contend all those "purisms" in Europe and America, still we are diverse humans different and need to be recognized as that

  • @AtticusEdwards
    @AtticusEdwards 2 года назад +2

    Isn't that Hilary Putnam he's saying hi to at the beginning???

    • @palealeable
      @palealeable Год назад +1

      Putnam is also asking a question at the end!

  • @JAMAICADOCK
    @JAMAICADOCK 8 лет назад +15

    Reality is death, pain, suffering. Without the miseries of life - reality would probably disappear into banality. Post modernity gained prominence in a banal period of history.
    Like the lines of Harry Lime in the Third Man - that went something like - 'in 500 years of war and feuding the Italians gave us Michael Angelo, Leonardo and the renaissance - whereas 5 centuries of peace and harmony in Switzerland - gave us the cuckoo clock'
    Not that the banality of the cuckoo clock is without its charms - however, in the face of the horrors of the early 21st century, post modernity is found wanting - tantamount to fiddling while Rome burns
    .

    • @strizzyl
      @strizzyl 7 лет назад +1

      philosophy is just for fun ;)

    • @glennewell2436
      @glennewell2436 2 года назад

      Better still ....the French gave us the guillotine and post modernism with the latter being responsible for far more deaths than the former.

  • @CheekyVimto08
    @CheekyVimto08 12 лет назад +4

    thanks for this. the awesome shit you find on the internet!

  • @Matt-cj5us
    @Matt-cj5us 2 года назад

    All your thoughts do not come from yourself, therefore philosophy can be subject to the darkside in the unseen world

  • @strizzyl
    @strizzyl 7 лет назад +4

    favorite part is when he shut down the woman that asked if he was hearing her

  • @user2812
    @user2812 13 лет назад +1

    do not activate the CC service if you do not write subtitles... this way it is absurd

  • @Pablo220510
    @Pablo220510 11 лет назад +3

    It's me Mario!

  • @GodofDoors
    @GodofDoors 12 лет назад +3

    Did he confuse Finnegans Wake with Madame Bovary?

    • @chopin65
      @chopin65 4 года назад +2

      I think so.

    • @naisiaxavier6444
      @naisiaxavier6444 3 года назад +3

      I think he said "can't" but it sounded as "can", given his italian accent. I speak portuguese and have noticed this kind of thing in my english speaking accent also.

    • @RainmanCT
      @RainmanCT Год назад

      @@naisiaxavier6444 i thought he said "Kant"

  • @CheekyVimto08
    @CheekyVimto08 12 лет назад

    @JamesEPowell ahh thanks :D

  • @palmarius104
    @palmarius104 6 лет назад +1

    That idiotic comment about string theory not leading to a single prediction. String theory has many predictions. It actually predicts everything we see in reality. But because string theory also predicts thing that go beyond what we can even know by empiricism, it is unclear exactly how correct string theory is. That's all. It's not the mathematical physics that's the problem, it's experiment.

  • @handyalley2350
    @handyalley2350 6 лет назад +3

    This guy looks older than thomas aquinas! :|
    Sounds even older!

  • @iitaly
    @iitaly  13 лет назад

    @user2812 Sorry about that

  • @JamesEPowell
    @JamesEPowell 12 лет назад

    @CheekyVimto08
    A Christian and an atheist

  • @CheekyVimto08
    @CheekyVimto08 12 лет назад +2

    I don't understand the joke about being a Thomist and a Marxist...

    • @huehuecoyotl2
      @huehuecoyotl2 5 лет назад

      I believe he said "atomist", not Thomist.

    • @kevindesabbata3902
      @kevindesabbata3902 4 года назад +10

      @@huehuecoyotl2 no no, he indeed said Thomist... The joke is about the fact that Thomas Aquinus is one of the main Christian thinkers, while marxist thought is atheist by definition, so in theory it is the negation of thomism... then in Italy there is a whole bunch of people who manage to declare themselves both Marxists and Papists at the same time, hence the joke

    • @dustywaxhead
      @dustywaxhead 3 года назад

      St Thomas Aquinas is thought to be the the ancient forefather of communism

  • @lukaszabrac
    @lukaszabrac Год назад

    what the fuck was that at 30:50

  • @GodofDoors
    @GodofDoors 12 лет назад

    Or was he being dry.

  • @pierluigiqui3007
    @pierluigiqui3007 8 лет назад

    of course not for americans...not at all, sorry

  • @wgoriejr
    @wgoriejr 12 лет назад

    Narrative fiction-non-fusion, nor fission, fusion of the ''presence of the thinker' and duty of pedant erudite motion narrowing Philosophy.

    • @die_schlechtere_Milch
      @die_schlechtere_Milch 5 лет назад +1

      since I don't understand anything of what you wrote ("Narrative fiction-non-fusion, nor fission, fusion of the ''presence of the thinker' and duty of pedant erudite motion narrowing Philosophy.") I simply assume that you are either not a competent speaker of english or a postmodernist.