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http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/26/opinion/26brooks.html?_r=1&ref=opinion Here is David Brooks and his latest political column ‘The Big Disconnect’: the pleasures of the great overarching metaphor. Some have dubbed him Cockeyed Platonist for his love of forms and ideas rather than commenting on the world as … Continue reading →

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Vol. 11 No. 6 · 16 March 1989

Below I have quoted an excerpt from Professor Gary Gutting’s book Thinking the Impossible. His very useful analysis has opened the way for me to achieve a greater understanding of Derrida’s work; which  seemed repetitive and pointless, a highly rationalized … Continue reading →

You recall when Pretty Boy Critic (PBC) used to everywhere. I know you do, you’re just pretending to be twenty years younger than you are. Your plastic surgeon and your hairdresser both conspire to hide those two decades, but you’re … Continue reading →

‘First, Hyppolite gave up Hegel’s claim that philosophy could culminate in a “totality” that synthesized and reconciled all oppositions, and instead presented philosophy, as, Foucault says, Husserl did , as “an endless task, against the background of an infinite horizon”. … Continue reading →

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/22/opinion/22brooks.html?_r=1&hp Does one ever tire of the jottings of America’s premier spokesman for bourgeois heterosexual conformity, in all of its manifestations, including a penchant for the reification of the benighted tribalism known as the Abrahamic Tradition? Mr. Brooks is the … Continue reading →

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-gop-sends-in-a-marine-for-education-reform/2011/04/19/AFsQaMEE_story.html?wpisrc=nl_opinions   One thing The Great Will (TGW) cannot resist  is the heady perfume of the jackboot, it provides a frisson that suffuses his latest essay titled ‘The GOP sends in a Marine for education reform’. And the object of … Continue reading →

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