From: Elizaphanian (elizaphanian@tiscali.co.uk)
Date: Sat Mar 01 2003 - 18:19:59 GMT
David - it is a good thought, worth exploring anyway (which I might do
tomorrow if I get a moment). There's definitely something in it.
Sam
"Bush's speechwriters may be able to help him talk the talk, but does he
kneel the kneel?" (Alex Pennell)
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From: "David Buchanan" <DBuchanan@ClassicalRadio.org>
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Subject: RE: MD Pirsig the postmodernist?
> DMB said:
> > That's it. I just wanted to put this anti-metaphysical stance into some
> kind
> > of a context. I hope to address some of the issues raised in this thread
> > later, but wanted to get that on the table. Another thing I learned from
> my
> > little enclopedia, was that Wittgenstein wrote his first major work
while
> on
> > active duty and as a prisoner of war. Do you suppose this had anything
to
> do
> > with the rise of analytic philosophy? I mean, it seems just as
anti-German
> > as it does anti-metaphysical? One wonders if the split between the
> > continental philosophers and the anglo-american philosophers was really
> > motivated by nationalism or patriotism. Just a thought.
>
> Sam said:
> Except that Wittgenstein fought for the German side, not the
anglo-american.
> (Specifically, the Austrians. Because he was, of course, an
Austrian......)
>
> DMB says:
> Good point. I stand corrected. Since Wittgenstein was born in Viennna, but
> studied with Russell at Cambridge, inspired the Vienna circle but also
read
> poetry to them, maybe he's not the best example. But what about the idea
> that the continental/anglo-american split was motivated by nationalism and
> patriotism? I mean, today the harshest critics of Marx, for example, do so
> for political reasons, not philosophical reasons. Or when was the last
time
> you heard of a conservative post-structuralist? There but be a few
examples
> of such a strange creature, but if the critics are right the various
> post-modern schools are filled with left-wingers. I should probably change
> the thread name is this question prompts further posts. I guess it should
be
> a thread called "the politics of philosophy" or something. But it was just
a
> thought...
>
> Thanks.
>
>
>
>
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