A postgraduate diploma in philosophy allows me to profoundly admit that I know nothing.
For
anyone who is interested in my own small takes on the philosophers I concentrated
on in the course of my undergrad degree,
I've
made my essays available here in word format. They're far from brilliant,
but they could be said to be clues about the way I've come to see things.
on
Roland Barthes' Death of the Author
on
bad faith in Sartre's thought
on
Heidegger and das ge-stell
on
Kant and unity in consciousness
on
Lacan and the Mirror Stage theory
on
Nietzsche and the übermensch
on
the problem of inductive reasoning
Far
from a full account of what I studied, but all I have to offer right now.
I'd recommend anyone to embark on a discovery of Hegel, Nietzsche, Camus,
Sartre,
Foucault, Kant, Heidegger (early), and whomsoever else crops up in the
investigation.
Of
more pertinence is my own book, which is philosophical/poetic in nature.
I've been working on it now for a number of months, and there are probably
several
years to go before I'm done. Building on the structure of my earlier work,
it shall be arranged in sections according to chapter and verse in a style
not
dissimilar to the Bible, but it shall satisfy my desire to write poetry,
philosophy and fiction in one shot. Here's a sample:
