Deutschland uber DIR.

[oneirophrenia]

You are Martin Heidegger! Your reputation is
stained a bit by the fact that you were a
member of the Nazi party, but your
groundbreaking Being and Time is still
read by a whole lot of people. You overuse the
hyphen, and make up a lot of words. You died in
1976.


What 20th Century Theorist are you?
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Actually, Heidegger bores me to tears. He's just another stuffy old German systematizer.

Come to think of it...you know, I don't really like ANY 20th Century "theorists." None of them are even vaguely pragmatic--just a bunch of airy-fairy handwaving pseudopsychological bunk and bullshit. Give me a philosophy with some practicality to it, like Nietzschean ethics, or Jung's theory of archetypes. Everything else goes into the Bin of Completely Wasted Time.

Feh. Phenomenologists. Glorified French and German omphaloskeptics, all of 'em.

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[doktorvox.livejournal.com]

My friend Phil wrote that quiz, actually. He's trying to organize a special issue of a lit crit journal on Lovecraft. You might want to get in touch with him. His LJ is Snowspinner.

[oneirophrenia.livejournal.com]

That was actually an entertaining quiz. Nonetheless, I'll be in contact with that fella concerning the Lovecraft crit issue!