t is simply *not* true that all French post-structuralists are *deconstructionists*. Hence, my remarks on Derrida were directed towards Sysyphean's remark on ...
s the book that followed up the hoax.<br>There are chapters on <br>Lacan, Kristeva, Irigaray, Deluze and Guattari. Bruno Latour, Baudrillard, Virilio, ...
isyphean--<br><br>Which deconstructions are you talking about? To be sure Derrida openly admits that he believes his views have political consequences, but...
ohn,<br><br>I think that the real damaging aspect of the Sokal hoax was not so much that it proved the incompatibility of science and poststructuralist ...
ohn--<br><br>Would it be possible for you to clarify some of your remarks on logic and non-contradiction here?<br><br>First, you claim that "if anything evades...
he main gist of Sokal hoax and subsequent book was to expose the pretentious misuse of scientific concepts like those of quantum theory. Though Heisenberg and...
pologies... In the second sentence of my second post I say "he is merely claiming that the analysis of reference qua reference..." This should read "he is...
ith respect to your remarks on Frege vs Saussure, I find myself perplexed. First, I'm not certain that I would claim there is any real sort of argument or...
To call some metaphysical theory irrational does not necessarily involve a mteaphysical or ontological standpoint. To say it involves a philosophical ...
amella2,<br><br>While I am far from being a fan of "poststructuralism", I do agree that it has at the least been a powerful diagnosis of the "privileged...
he real question to ask is not "why do Heidegger and Nietzsche get so much flack for post-structuralism and deconstruction?"-- after all, Heidegger did coin...
he whole issue of christianity vs. metaphysics is one of semantics...according to both Heidegger and Nietzsche the occidental mindset is captivated by the idea...
o as a counter Christian I am in his terms still something Christian? Should I care? As such I'm still in the occidental mind set? I'm all for looking at ...
note of Heidegger's from his Nietzsche lectures: "...the feast of thinking never takes place in Christianity. That is to say, there is no Christian philosophy....
ohn,<br><br>Why is it that everyone seems to blame Heidegger for poststructuralist philosophy? The only person who gets more bad press in the creation of it is...
f we accept Heidegger's fanciful etymologies, perhaps. I know H does not want to discuss paganism v Christianity, but he still reminds me of St Paul. He is...
lad tidings John, it is nice to see that someone else has decided to post aside from myself and lamella2. As to question of paganism vs. christianity, I can...
eing and Time* is an illuminating account of the origins of Heidegger's thought that clarifies much of his obscurity. Heidegger opinion of Spengler p 337:-...
have been reading a collection of essays by Gadamer on Heideggar and came across something that I thought was rather interesting...Gadamer writes about the ...
must clarify what I was trying to say in my last post. I think that perhaps we have not gotten over our search for the primordial self and may be projecting it...
ou have said so much so quickly here that it's difficult for me to know where precisely to comment. One thing that intrigues me in particular is your comment ...
ou made my head hurt all day and I still haven't figured out half of what I really think about the issue...One point that comes to mind is whether or not we ...
think you are right to reference the Cartesian subject and the disappearance-- or should we rather say the hiddeness to keep with the themes of pseudos and ...
must say that once again you have put the question to me and not without a great deal of intellectual force. I do agree that some of Heideggar's writing does...
don't think there's anything "fruity" about claiming that language speaks us at all... Though the sensus communus seems to think otherwise. This is a thesis...
do agree that there is a question that lingers over Heideggar and his "destiny of a people" in SZ...I also have to reflect further on whether all structurings...
i Sisyphean--<br><br>I think you ask a good question here and believe that there are a number of different critical ways of approaching it. First it seems ...
ello and thank you for coming to the club. I would like to start with a question: If language is the house of being as Heideggar contests and the "enframing"...
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