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Logic Thinking Allowed "? Philosophers and media

Dear, I will share a compilation of 10 minutes The ladOculto program (channel 20 TCC, led by Gerardo Sotelo) with the philosopher Sandino Núñez (writer and host of the Thinking Allowed , televised by TNU) as guest-and short talks of Romanian philosopher / Argentine Thomas Abraham and the writer of these lines-taking think tank as the link between philosophers, news and media, and the role of the philosopher, the intellectual in general, in times of post-modernity. The debate, therefore, remains open and invites them to continue in this space (in this same blog entry, in the end, playing the video program. They can also play directly from this link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=paoC2lJCl_4 )

Some questions that are floating around are: should the philosophy, the philosopher, linked particularly with the everyday, with problems of his time and context, to current and emerging social issues? Is it possible-and how-to give a smooth and fruitful relationship between philosophers and media? Did the media play -Or-should play a role somewhat critical thinking managers in the community or its purpose is merely another? "The philosophers have left a vacancy in their traditional society-and decisive-space generating consciousness? Who occupies that place today? Is it a vacuum? What is the role and place of the intellectual in times of post-modernity?, Among other things that come to mind as outstanding emerging debate.

And as a way to warn you of the content-and the debate that is finally installed-les-isolated here are some thoughts on this selection, which are happening in the dialogues in the order in which they emerging (and the end I add the video ):

Pablo Romero: "Allana and Philosophy makes contact again with cultural criticism and the problems of everyday life and in this case, the problems associated particularly media. I think that philosophy should be "in the mud of reality" and has not happened for two reasons. In principle, a problem of those who practice or exercise philosophy, between living in a kind of autism, a sort of ivory tower away from any social problems, and in turn, well, since the media has not been closer to those working in the space of thought. "

Thomas Abraham:" No philosopher is bound or has a mission to engage only read texts of philosophy. That poverty is a philosophical task. No philosopher, of the philosophical tradition, especially the classics, had as its mission the task, such as work, read other philosophers. But think its time. Which is devoted to philosophy, it is not enclosed with a text by Plato, is to assume the same challenge as did the philosophers of his time, which is thinking today. "

Gerardo Sotelo: I have a sense exculpatory of my work. I believe that the medium itself invited to triviality. That is, if you really want to do philosophy, really understand the complex political events or social or cultural, you have to go to books, conferences, seminars "Sandino Núñez

: What Heidegger called" current ontology, which deals effectively with a vocation, a desire, a willingness to seize the present in which one lives. That is extremely important, not because you have something to do with truth or philosophy has something to do with the truth, but because it deals specifically with that gesture, gesture, to take care of something. (...) I think that kind of joyous irresponsibility with regard to having neglected, have been left blank, the function of the conscience of society, has been catastrophic. Indeed, more and more holes in the space that was like the great place of philosophy. "Gerardo Sotelo

: You spoke of modernity that seems a step that tends to an end, to say the least generously. Looks like the idea that intellectuals could explain everything, the intellectuals in the broad sense that includes scientists, explain all phenomena of the universe, nature, spirit, of the psyche, that model no longer exists. Rather there is a disappointment to what could explain the intellectuals. "That happens to the philosopher particularly in these times? Sandino

Núñez: I would say it is especially true philosopher. Because it is precisely the philosopher who is orphaned when the site fails, when something of this place fails. I think the problem within the whole is far more complex than mere disappointment of the social body in relation to the old Messiah. The problem is not so much do not believe this or that, or thought before but not anymore. The problem I think is much more terrible. I think the matter is that there where there had been something of a gap at the level of social discourse production, ie, something that allowed someone to eventually fill that hollow place, no more, no longer exists. Is the gap itself that is sutured, the wound that is closed. I mean, there are only specific intellectuals, and there are only technical, but there are no specialists. "


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