Source: Philosophy At The Limit (1990), Chapter 2, Metaphysics and Metaphor, p. 26
“Does not an ingenuous contact with Kantian thinking, with philosophical thinking in general, contain the risk of exposing a young consciousness to a violent and sudden aging? What of a youthful will to know is preserved in a philosophy that makes one dizzy with its bony spiraling turns of the screw?”
Source: Kritik der zynischen Vernunft [Critique of Cynical Reason] (1983), p. xxxi
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