59 | Herbert Marcuse B-Sides Mixtape
What's Left of Philosophy
00:00
Heidegger's Sublimation of Capitalism
The encounter with Heidegger is really thought provoking to me and disturbing to me. I think that the close proximity between these figures creates the ambiguous intellectual terrain in which right and left really merge in their critique of capitalism. But on the other hand, I just don't really see how you arrive at that kind of conclusion from the starting point that he has in his preoccupation with subjectivity and alienation. This becomes very murky territory. And it feels to me like this is where you get the culture or element of it, where it's like there are some things I culturally see as left. Then things I culturally know are pretty fashy and I think that's bad. The critique
Transcript
Play full episode
