{"id":23978,"date":"2013-06-11T05:40:19","date_gmt":"2013-06-11T04:40:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ooops.pl\/?p=23978"},"modified":"2013-06-11T05:40:20","modified_gmt":"2013-06-11T04:40:20","slug":"klub-miedzynarodowej-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ooops.pl\/?p=23978","title":{"rendered":"klub mi\u0119dzynarodowej\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/lareviewofbooks.org\/article.php?type=&#038;id=1722&#038;fulltext=1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ooops.pl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/john-gray-the-silence-of-animals-small.jpg\" alt=\"john-gray-the-silence-of-animals-small\" width=\"243\" height=\"365\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-23986\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ooops.pl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/john-gray-the-silence-of-animals-small.jpg 243w, https:\/\/ooops.pl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/john-gray-the-silence-of-animals-small-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 243px) 100vw, 243px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>Today\u2019s metaphysics is called \u201cliberal humanism,\u201d with a quasi-religious faith in progress, the power of reason and the perfectibility of humankind. The quintessential contemporary liberal humanists are those Obamaists, with their grotesque endless conversations about engagement in the world and their conviction that history has two sides, right and wrong, and they are naturally on the right side of it.<br \/>\n(\u2026)<br \/>\nWhat takes root with early Christian belief, and massively accelerates in medieval Europe, finds its modern continuation in a sequence of bloody utopian political projects, from Jacobinism to Bolshevism, Stalinism, Nazism, and different varieties of Marxist-Leninist, anarchist, or Situationist ideologies. They all promised to build heaven on earth and left us with hell instead.<br \/>\n(\u2026)<br \/>\nParadoxically, for Gray, the highest value in existence is to know that there is nothing of substance in the world. Nothing is more real than nothing. (\u2026) His is a radical nominalism behind which stands the void. In this, as he is well aware, Gray is close to Beckett. We are condemned to words, but language is a prison house from which we constantly seek to escape. Rather than any comforting dogma of the linguistic turn, Gray is trying to imagine a turn away from the linguistic. Human language should be pointed towards a nonhuman silence.<br \/>\n(\u2026)<br \/>\nGray\u2019s godless mysticism asks us to look outside ourselves and simply see. This is a lot more difficult than it sounds.<\/p>\n<ol>Simon Critchley<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/lareviewofbooks.org\/article.php?type=&#038;id=1722&#038;fulltext=1\"><strong><em>John Gray\u2019s Godless Mysticism: On &#8222;The Silence of Animals: On Progress and Other Modern Myths&#8221;<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/ol>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today\u2019s metaphysics is called \u201cliberal humanism,\u201d with a quasi-religious faith in progress, the power of reason and the perfectibility of humankind. The quintessential contemporary liberal humanists are those Obamaists, with their grotesque endless conversations about engagement in the world and their conviction that history has two sides, right and wrong, and they are naturally on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23986,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poglady"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ooops.pl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23978","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ooops.pl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ooops.pl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ooops.pl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ooops.pl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23978"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/ooops.pl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23978\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23991,"href":"https:\/\/ooops.pl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23978\/revisions\/23991"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ooops.pl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/23986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ooops.pl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ooops.pl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ooops.pl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}