La Mettrie, Stirner, Reich - short intro - 1/9: L ---> La Mettrie ||| S ---> Stirner ||| R ---> Reich 2/9: 3 radical men of enlightenment --- ostracized by 'popular' colleagues 3/9: La Mettrie | in the 18th century | ---> by Voltaire, Diderot et al. 4/9: Stirner | in the 19th century | ---> by Marx, Nietzsche et al. 5/9: Reich | in the 20th century | ---> by Freud, Freudo-marxists et al. 6/9: L + S + R --->>> 3 key figures for a more profound understanding... 7/9: ...of the decline of the reality and of the very idea of enlightenment 8/9: The LSR project - not a historical - a paraphilosophical project 9/9: La Mettrie, Stirner, Reich --->>> 3 men of enlightenment for the future

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Julien Offray de La Mettrie 1709-1751 - short intro - 1/9: Julien Offray de L.A....M.E.T.T.R.I.E -- *not* conventionally seen here 2/9: *not* as a mechanist-materialist -- contrary to the cliche 'L'homme machine' 3/9: *not* as the court jester of Friedrich II -- comedy was primarily a protective mask 4/9: *not* as de Sade's forerunner -- although absolutely antimoralist 5/9: *not* as uncompromising nihilist -- as claimed Kondylis -- but rather as... 6/9: ...rationalist opposite of the rationalists Voltaire, Diderot, et al.", 7/9: La Mettrie -- here as the key figure to a deeper understanding... 8/9: ...of the false course of the idea of European enlightenment in the 18th century. 9/9: La Mettrie in the LSR project --->>> a rationalist for the future.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Max Stirner 1806-1856 - short intro - 1/9: M.A.X...S.T.I.R.N.E.R -- *not* conventionally seen here 2/9: *not* as an anarchist -- because hardly an anarchist was 'stirnerian' 3/9: *not* as a (proto-)fascist -- as a few Marxists wanted to see him 4/9: *not* as a radical nihilist -- as he is for many theologians 5/9: *not* as a forerunner of modern individualism -- but as... 6/9: ...rationalist opposite of the rationalists Marx and Nietzsche. 7/9: Max Stirner -- here as the key figure to a deeper understanding... 8/9: ...of the decline of the idea of European Enlightenment in the 19th century. 9/9: Max Stirner in the LSR project --->>> a rationalist for the future.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Wilhelm Reich 1897-1957 - short intro - 1/9: W.I.L.H.E.L.M...R.E.I.C.H -- *not* conventionally seen here 2/9: *not* as 'orgonomist' and inventor of diverse technical devices 3/9: *not* as 'father of all body-oriented psychotherapies' 4/9: *not* as the first 'Freudo-Marxist'/anti-fascist -- but as... 5/9: ...'splendid child of Europe's love of rationality, perhaps her last' (Raditsa). 6/9: Wilhelm Reich -- here as the key figure to a deeper understanding... 7/9: ...of the decline of the reality and the idea of Enlightenment in the 20th century. 8/9: Wilhelm Reich as the rationalist opposite of the rationalist Sigmund Freud. 9/9: Wilhelm Reich within the Project LSR --->>> a rationalist for the future.