The Impetus of the Soul:
Hume’s Philosophy of Force & Vivacity

Instructor: Reza Negarestani Date & Time: June 9th, 16th, 23rd, 30th, July 7th, July 14th, 21st, 28th 10:30-13:00 ET

DESCRIPTION: David Hume is not merely a footnote to Kant’s awakening from his dogmatic slumber, or for that matter, critical philosophy in its incandescent glory. He is first and foremost the trademark name for that unbridled worry and anxiety that philosophy subtly administers to the deepest recesses of any soul accustomed to its ways, and equally those who reject them. Laid bare in plain English and freed from all floral vapidities which often accompany intellectual hubris, Hume’s works are too crisp and pointed to be mistaken for anything other than what they really are: diamond wedges shot from a canon aimed at the fortified walls of various notions and manifestations of intellectual laxity, theoretical self-aggrandizement in the name of critique and most importantly, the unexamined tenets of all learnings in general.

This two-credit Seminar engages with the sphinx of modern philosophy, David Hume. The focus will be Hume’s philosophy of force and vivacity as a processual doctrine of passions and ideas most notably examined under the rubric of imagination and its relation to time. In line with our previous Seminar, The Vicious Transparency of Time an inquiry into the nature of inner time-consciousness via Husserl, this seminar reanimates Hume as a cipher for philosophical revenge upon some of the most cherished orthodoxies of transcendental philosophy. Hume will be introduced as a philosopher whose method foils any premature attempt at a resolution made under either the aegis of empiricism or under the banner of rationalism.

IMAGE: David Hume

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