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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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http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/20/business/20fraud.html?_r=1&ref=todayspaper 'Very few people have the luxury of being freely obnoxious. Most people have to watch what they say for fear of offending their bosses and colleagues. Others resist saying anything that might make them unpopular.But, in every society, there … Continue reading →

You have got to admire the indefatigable ambition of our self-described Little Greek Girl! She makes one respect, at the least, the scope and resilience of  that very real human aspiration. She is now an executive at AOL and has … Continue reading →