Machinic Unconscious Happy Hour Brent Adkins - Death and Desire in Heidegger, Hegel and Deleuze
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Mar 19, 2023 AI Snips
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From Bible College To Philosophical Research
- Brent Adkins describes moving from Bible college intent on ministry to studying Derrida and then Hegel and Heidegger in grad school.
- He wrote a master's thesis on Derrida's Plato's Pharmacy and later expanded his dissertation to include Deleuze, leading to his book Death and Desire.
Hegel And Heidegger Form An Antinomy
- Adkins frames Hegel and Heidegger as both 'too big and too small' for the other's view of death.
- He maps their antinomy onto Freud's mourning versus melancholia and Kant's ways of resolving antinomies.
Heidegger's Death Is Melancholic And Narcissistic
- Adkins reads Heidegger's being-toward-death as melancholic and narcissistic because it individualizes death as 'my death'.
- He argues Heidegger excludes the communal or impersonal dimensions of death crucial for other accounts.