David Morey asked:
Look at how complex this looks for Zizek, I like James, but does he resolve all
these issues?
dmb says:
I think Zizek is the kind of thinker that makes pragmatists shudder. It's Hegel
topped with Marxism and post Freudian psychoanalysis, which means it's one big
stack of metaphysical speculations and untestable theories. I think James would
file it under "vicious abstractionism". If Chomsky is right, Zizek is a clown
and a charlatan but it would be antithetical to pragmatism even if Chomsky was
wrong about that.
David Morey asked:
A world of pure experience? So take one of those movies where we count how many
basketball passes are made but fail to observe the gorilla in the background
until we watch a rerun of the video and someone suggests we look out for the
gorilla this time. How would James describe this and would he avoid suggesting
any epistemic gaps?
dmb says:
That's just a case of misdirection, I think. It shows that some parts of
experience are on the fringe awareness and go unnoticed. As Pirsig painted it,
our world is just a handful of sand taken from an endless landscape of
awareness. James also insisted that something is always left unverbalized and
unnoticed. It's related to and consistent with the philosophical mystics who
say reality is outside of language. We can't put the whole dresser into one of
its own tiny drawers.
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