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

Prof. Umberto Eco lectures about New Realism in Philosophy and the differences with the Post-Modernism at Italian Cultural Institute of New York

[HamzaTheHistorian]

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.

[spookybuk]

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.

[glennewell]

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

[WonHyo]

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.

[nyarlantothep]

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

[JAMAICADOCK]

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


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[AtticusEdwards]

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

[rantym]

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

[CheekyVimto]

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

[palmarius]

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.

[user]

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

[strizzyl]

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

[Matt-cjus]

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

[CheekyVimto]

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

[handyalley]

This guy looks older than thomas aquinas! :|







Sounds even older!

[GodofDoors]

Did he confuse Finnegans Wake with Madame Bovary?

[JamesEPowell]

@CheekyVimto08

A Christian and an atheist

[pierluigiqui]

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

[wgoriejr]

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