Found my name at the end of your post and was flattered. An excellent post on Derrida. Thanks.
The Happy Tutor | Homepage | 10.30.04 - 4:54 pm | #

also a rather gracious Tutor...
Matt | Homepage | 10.30.04 - 11:50 pm | #

RIP, Maître Derrida. The analytics are only now starting to realize that their own prior results challenge an absolute divide between fact and value, while Derrida (among others) realized the dichotomy between the two was specious to begin with. And for having the insight and depth to use the conclusion they're only reaching now as a starting point in his own work, the analytic establishment tosses calumnies on a dead man.

Nice guys, no? You'd think one of them would have stepped up to the plate and at least been polite. Fuck them—Kripke and the other weirdos will be long forgotten while Derrida will still be read.

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et alia | Homepage | 10.31.04 - 11:51 pm | #

Re Fukuyama: the smarter neo-cons are looking to bail on Bush and the hard right coalition. Their ambition, as given to them by Leo Strauss, is to be the brains behind the official power of the state. Watch; they'll be some Dem stupid enough to bring them on board. I figure that smarmy little fuck Joe Lieberman is the likely vector for the neo-con disease in the Dem establishment.
et alia | Homepage | 10.31.04 - 11:51 pm | #

Lieberman bashing will absolutely be tolerated at any time on this blog.
Matt | Homepage | 11.01.04 - 12:24 pm | #

Is this graphic ("VOTING CHANGES NOTHING, THE STRUGGLE CONTINUES") really a purely pre-ironic slogan "against voting" as some have suggested? I would interested in anyone's thoughts on this..
Matt | Homepage | 11.01.04 - 12:40 pm | #

My own thoughts, for the record, tend to jive with this.
Matt | Homepage | 11.01.04 - 1:06 pm | #

Furthermore and relatedly...The Young Hegelian has reminded me of a provocative book I read several years ago called The Future of American Progressivism by Roberto Unger and Cornel West:

"To understand your country you must love it. To love it you must, in a sense, accept it. To accept it as it is, however, is to betray it. To accept your country without betraying it, you must love it for that in it which shows what it might become...."
Matt | Homepage | 11.01.04 - 2:24 pm | #

sorry, that should read "as one has suggested"
Matt | Homepage | 11.01.04 - 7:57 pm | #