Precisely against the backdrop of philosophy's conservatism in our day, its orientation toward the past,
the Netanya School surprises with innovative thought that faces the future. Befitting our era, its style is
fragmentary and reveals the development of thought in the process of writing, yet distances itself from all
esoteric discourse - it is equally distant from the charlatan obscurity that spread in the Continental
tradition and from the theoretical dryness that embalmed the Analytic tradition. From the totality of
fragments emerges a synthesis between the scientific roots of Analytic philosophy - including great
influence from mathematics and computer science - and a thinking style that is essentially radically
Continental, as befits a school that grew at the eastern edge of Western culture, in an American satellite
state with European roots - which is a philosophical banana republic.
The First Banana Notebook
The estate of the head of the Netanya School is no less than an amazing collection of ideas in all
fields of knowledge, spirit, science, art - and philosophy. It is hard to believe that one mind is
capable of producing from within itself such a wide variety of thoughts, in a grotesque Renaissance
composition particularly marked by the influence of algorithmic complexity theory, but also Jewish
thought, art history, the history of ideas, and the world of science fiction - and scientific
fiction. Beyond the recurring motif of the banana and the ape, one can discern the philosopher's
feverishness, who labored in his armchair 24 hours a day, never uttered a banal sentence in his
life, and whose innovation is truly infinite - like an ever-strengthening spring. In the notebook
his thought unfolds before the reader in abundance, in confidence, in breadth of thought and
conciseness alike - like one of the ancients. If Leonardo had been connected to the internet and
never left home
The Homework Notebook
A notebook of lessons that the Netanya thinker could not teach at the university, and therefore
taught them in his home salon. These are summaries written by the students of the leader of the
Netanya School's outbursts when he was frustrated by the lack of recognition from the philosophical
world outside Netanya - and outside the salon. The summaries deal with diverse topics such as:
intelligence and misogyny, Kant and algorithms, deep connections between theology and science,
political science and learning systems, aesthetics and technology, and more. On one hand, they
contain a mixed multitude of intellectual provocations in the Netanya stream of consciousness, and
on the other hand, intense and original conservatism emerges from them. A fundamental concept woven
throughout the notebook is learning, which replaces language as the paradigm at the center of
philosophical gravity - in a move whose implications are far-reaching for the future of philosophy
The Dog Ate the Notebook
Remnants of notes, from what is an enormous loss to philosophy: the dog ate the philosopher's third
notebook, who fell asleep in his armchair after a philosophical bulimic attack, in which he vomited
into the notebook everything he had learned along with banana remains. From among the tears,
researchers of the Netanya School managed to decipher a limited number of passages, but precisely
from their eclecticism a systematic philosophical doctrine gradually grows, until its maturation at
the end of the notebook, which is the philosopher's last composition. From there the notebook's
landscape is already seen not as fragments of impressions of a distinguished intellectual tourist,
but as a pilgrimage journey to the peak of a system that raised the future as its banner - in what
is a victory of the spirit of philosophy over the spirit of the dog
Prolegomena to Any Future Philosophy
A summary of trends in the Netanya School. Following the glorious philosophical tradition of those
who were not understood at all in their lifetimes - the founding philosopher establishes a new
tradition of those who were not read at all. Prolegomena as summary - this is a fitting end to the
work of a school that dealt with the future. In the best tradition of the school's compressed style,
whose single book contains material equivalent in value to a thousand scholarly books, and which
condenses the waste of time that is philosophical jargon (which broke negative records in the
twentieth century, in a trend shared by both the Analytic and Continental traditions), the Netanya
philosopher compresses his entire doctrine into a short article. And go forth and learn the rest
[Talmudic phrase meaning "go and complete the study"]
Confucius of the Future
"The Jewish Confucius" - or "the Proto-Netanya philosopher" - are the nicknames of an anonymous
thinker from before the beginning of the Netanya School, who was perhaps the teacher or initial
inspiration of the most important philosopher in Netanya, who later disowned him - when he turned
from Eastern thought to Western thought. Very little has been preserved from Proto-Netanya thought,
which remained partly sealed and signed for a generation that will discover it in the future, but
some of the teacher's ideas anticipate the student's ideas - particularly the philosophy of learning
and the future. From the remaining fragments it appears that this was a kind of mystical group that
existed in ancient Netanya around a charismatic teacher - and a sex addict. The thought is organized
in two condensed files, one of the teacher and the second of the student, and it was found in the
Netanya philosopher's home after his suicide, and was apparently his favorite reading material in
the bathroom, but he denied any connection to it in his lifetime, and claimed emphatically that he
had never read it - and was not influenced by it at all