ACS 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Solipsism, Soft Despotism, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Arts and Contemporary Studies
• Course: ACS 100
• Professor: Jamin Pelkey

Document Summary

Features of our contemporary culture and society that people experience as a loss or decline, even as our civilization develops" . New ideas, research, development but it is a loss. Kierkegaard - evidence of despair is that you are not aware of it. Introduction to the telegraph marshall mcluhan, first mass useable electronic technology (at speed of light) Quest for identity is a central aspect of the electric age . Taylor, quest for identity is a quest in the modern era. Modernity has its booster as well as its knockers. The knickers critique of individuals relativistic turns into debased self-fulfillment consumerist gluttenist. Anti - scientific it"s just opinions with no ways of being tested. Many paradoxical reversals, greed, chaos, extreme insecurity will lead to collapse leads to narcissism and solipsism. Waking up to your higher self to thine own self be true . Early moderns: descartes, kant, rousseau, hegel marx, kierkegaard. The moral force of the ideal of authenticity (17)