Stand by for the Levinas revival, which will surely piggyback on this trend. All that's really needed are a few combatative papers pointing out how completely Zizek and Badiou have got Levinas wrong...
Dominic Fox | Homepage | 11.30.06 - 2:12 pm | #

Lord knows those would be easy papers to write, certainly.
Adam Kotsko | 11.30.06 - 2:36 pm | #

I blame Santner.
Scott McLemee | Homepage | 11.30.06 - 2:47 pm | #

Well maybe "blame" is not the right word. But still.
Scott McLemee | Homepage | 11.30.06 - 2:48 pm | #

All that's really needed are a few combatative papers pointing out how completely Zizek and Badiou have got Levinas wrong...

Paging Regina Schwartz and Edith Wyschogrod.
Brad | 11.30.06 - 3:20 pm | #

Nah, not Levinas again, so soon. He's too 90s, and just so Critchley.

Think Adam is on to something with the Rosenzweig thing - he's been hip at Middlesex for at least three years now, and you know what trend-setters they are.
infinite thought | Homepage | 11.30.06 - 4:52 pm | #

I'm tempted to point out shallow religious conversion trends of late - i.e. Eastern Orthodoxy with a heavy splash of Slavism ("Ohhhh the service was in Russian!"). Jesus Christ! OK, so you don't want to be protestant but you don't want to be catholic so you go with the great orientalist choice. Bad, bad bad.
Anthony Paul Smith | 11.30.06 - 5:11 pm | #

I'm not even convinced that Badiou and Zizek are trying to get Levinas right.
Adam Kotsko | Homepage | 11.30.06 - 7:44 pm | #

Rosenzweig is big in theocon circles, promoted by ilk likepseudo-Spengler, a George Weigel wannabe.
cynic librarian | Homepage | 11.30.06 - 9:12 pm | #

let's try this again: pseudo-Spengler, theocon of Palestinian genocide
cynic librarian | Homepage | 11.30.06 - 9:52 pm | #

Those truly on the cutting edge, however, are turning to Baron Albert Freiherr von Schrenck-Notzing and his masterpiece, Phenomena of Materialisation: A Contribution to the Investigation of Mediumistic Teleplastics. Ectoplasm is the new black.
roger | Homepage | 11.30.06 - 10:34 pm | #

I'll take Alfred Jarry and pataphysics any day over von Schrenk-Notzing. Anyone else note the resemblance between Ubu and Bush2?
cynic librarian | Homepage | 11.30.06 - 10:52 pm | #

Yes. The Clintons are coming back so Levinas will to you know. Ooh, and a Derrida revival...

The bad thing about all this is we'll loose our Schmitt again...
Amish Lovelock | 11.30.06 - 11:01 pm | #

Are we talking Derrida A or B here?
cynic librarian | Homepage | 11.30.06 - 11:16 pm | #

Jaroslav Hasek is the true Dadaist. The French Dadaists are too effete.
John Emerson | Homepage | 11.30.06 - 11:25 pm | #

Pataphysics. I love the very idea. Is it true that Lowith read The Star of Redemption in one sitting?
anssakvull | 12.01.06 - 12:37 pm | #

One of my correspondents is a pataphysicist and Latinist who lives in Sarawak. I know three Latinists who live in that general area.
John Emerson | Homepage | 12.01.06 - 2:40 pm | #

Three cheers for Wyschogrod and for her husband Michael as well. About five years ago David Tracy did a great piece on R. and why he is becoming trendy.
old | 12.03.06 - 8:34 am | #