A batch of the best highlights from what J's read, .
The world is now disabused of that false sense of universality. Philosophers such as [VY Mudimbe](https://www.encyclopedia.com/education/news-wires-white-papers-and-books/mudimbe-v-y) in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, [Walter Mignolo](https://www.dukeupress.edu/the-darker-side-of-western-modernity) or [Enrique Dussel](https://globalsocialtheory.org/thinkers/dussel-enrique/) in Argentina, or [Kojin Karatani](https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/08/arts/kojin-karatani-berggruen-prize.html) in Japan have far more legitimate claims to universality than Habermas and his ilk ever did.
Thanks to Gaza, European Philosophy Has Been Exposed as Ethically Bankrupt
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Adorno and Horkheimer argued that men came to dominate nature and, in the process, succumbed themselves to the “total schematization of men.” Modern man’s stratagems for control always exceed and swallow him; thus Tate, too, is a pawn in the ordered game he has learned.
Mr. Lonely
Emily Greenhouse
Juliette felt a wash of fear and relief, those two opposites twisting together like staircase and rail.