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forcing one to imagine examples with exactly the right structure to challenge a generalization cloudiness will not suffice they make imagination consequential in a way in which it is not in their absence the most rigorous and precise discussion often involves the most playfulness and laughter toying with subtly different combinations of ideas yields surprising scenarios humorless solemnity masks sloppiness and confusio n 289 when law and order break down the result is not freedom or anarchy but the capricious tyranny of petty feuding warlords similarly the unclarity of constraints in philosophy leads to authoritarianism whether an argument is widely accepted depends not on publicly accessible criteria that we can all apply for ourselves but on the say so of charismatic authority figures pupils cannot become autonomous from their teachers because they cannot securely learn the standards by which their teachers judge a modicum of willful unpredictability in the application of standards is a good policy for a professor who does not want his students to gain too much independence 290 posted in philosophy tags analytic philosophy on continental stereotypes april 8 2011 leave a comment hans johann glock s what is analytic philosophy is a thorough widely researched meta philosophical survey of the historical origins doctrinal developments current state and possible future permutations of analytic philosophy a term that glock uses always with caution arguing that it is neither a geographical nor a linguistic category and that analytic philosophy should be explained in terms of family resemblances what holds analytic philosophers together is not a single set of necessary and sufficient conditions but a thread of overlapping similarities doctrinal methodological and stylistic careful in not taking for granted any definition glock however argues that the analytic continental distinction colours philosophical perception even among those who do not regard it as absolute more generally there is no gainsaying the fact that the idea of a distinct analytic philosophy continues to shape the institutionalpractice of philosophy whether it be through distinct journals societies job advertisements or institutes indeed the book is especially good when it comes to give an account of the dynamics of the split between the two traditions from within the german speaking world essentially arguing that analytic philosophy is as geographically continental as its continental cousin both in its historical origins and in its present state and when very clear headedly criticizing analytic philosophers themselves for failing to recognize the existence of high profile analytic philosophers working in non anglophone countries being glock german himself he writes on the basis of my reasonably well developed acquaintance with the various sides of these linguistic and philosophical divides i entirely acceptthat the analytic emperor does have clothes and although many of its original sources were germanophone the bulk of its contributions to philosophical understanding have come from anglophones this is no excuse however for the notable failure of many analyticphilosophers to pay due attention to figures and ideas that hail from beyond their philosophical their linguistic or their national horizons the exclusionary demeanour of the anglophone mainstream is indisutably an intellectual disadvantage when the grounds of exclusion arelinguistic or geographic rather than philosophical and stressing the indifference and condescension with which many anglophones greet non anglophone philosophy he argues that this holds not just of those contemporaries who indulge in hackneyed jibes at the continentals it also afflicts some first time visitors to the continent who note with genuine surprise that some of the natives are neither hegelians nor heideggerians nor postmodernists and may even be capable of intelligent questions and objections and concludes by noting that here is the problem however whilst very rightly condemning the limited horizon of anglophone analytic philosophers the subtext of glock remark essentially perpetuates the ideal of the very existence of colourful native continentalists perhaps wearing a turtleneck sweater sipping a glass of wine and a brandishing a baguette his critique of cultural stereotyping tells us not all continent dwellers are continental philosophers but pretty much supports the stereotype but those that are continental philosophers are hardly capable of deploying an argument his snipe to derrida is one of many in the book derrida s arguments are predictably dismissed as and reduced to linguistic puns and obscure turns of phrases mistaking as usual an employment of language and logic stretched to the limits of expressibility with french nonsensical playfulness perhaps glock should read the very clear and concise account of derrida s logic by graham priest someone that of logic and argumentative clarity knows a thing or two and more generally the feeling throughout the whole book whenever he mentions continental philosophy particularly heidegger whose ontological analysis or analytic of being is supposed to reveal the meaning of existence is that of someone trying as hard as possible to keep a straight face and not to burst out laughing his patronizing attitude comes out most clearly in the final chapter dealing with the present and future of philosophy where expressing clear skepticism towards attempts to reconcile the two traditions on the grounds of the many notorious past examples of failed dialogue as a basic list he mentions ryle s review of heidegger s sein und zeit carnap s attack on heidegger s the nothing noths the 1958 royaumont encounter between british and french philosophers bar hillel s attack on habermas appropriation of speech act theory the spat between searle and derrida over austin s speech act theory and the alleged ubiquity of writing the protests against derrida s honorary degree in cambridge and the aftermath of the sokal hoax he writes that this is most unfortunate for an author which even when openly being a partisan of analytic philosophy moves some firm and clearly argued critiques to this tradition in particular on the counts of scholasticism disengagement from other disciplines and the public factionalism and the exclusionary demeanour towards non anglophone and non analytic philosophy if the passage above is not an example of exclusionary if not downright patronizing demeanour i don t know what it is of course the fame of continental philosophy is not a complete fabrication of arrogant analytics but has got some very solid grounds and also glock s is not an out and out celebration of his analytic tradition either in the context of his critique of self referentiality he introduces an amusing footnote noting that in the analytic literature but the point is that the perpetuation quite literally since above he s reporting diego marconi s opinion of these sweeping uninformed if not downright facile stereotypes regarding continentals in an ambitious authoritative and fairly recent published in 2008 monograph directed mainly towards an analytic audience is quite lamentable glock s historical apparatus is extremely well researched when it comes to analytic philosophy but this level of scholarship is not matched by an equally informed at least outline of what continentalists were actually trying to do some decades ago and of what they are up to today glock concludes arguing that what the analytic scene needs is not a deliberate switch to continental traditionalist or pragmatist modes of thought but analytic philosophy in a different vein engaging and engaged instead of scholastic and isolationist collegial undogmatic and open minded instead of factionalist and exclusionary indeed and open mindedness usually involves trying to overcome tradition inherited stereotypes in this otherwise excellent book there is very little open mindedness when it comes to at least suspend one s judgement regarding the alleged chronic obscurantism which plagues that funny bunch of continental philosophers posted in philosophy tags analytic philosophy continental philosophy on rorty s abuse of derrida march 5 2011 5 comments i ve recently read rorty s notorious paper philosophy as a kind of writing pdf here this is the first time i read any substantial chunk of rorty s work because frankly i never felt any necessity to do so but of course i was vaguely familiar with his idiosyncratic at best appropriation presentation of derrida however the essay is much worse than i thought and often downright outrageous this essay and others of this kind is the reason why the work of derrida is still today largely shunned as postmodern rule free trendy relativism and derrida himself dismissed as a pretentious self indulgent sophist adrift in a sea of signs mostly by people that haven t spent nearly enough time reading what derrida actually wrote if there is something for which derrida can definitely be blamed for it is his failure to distance himself strongly enough from this kind of appropriation of his work and perhaps also from the caputo vattimo kearney theological trend the criitc will surmise that the reason is that after all he didn t really disagree with it a more charitable interpretation is that he tried to avoid open conflict when possible and unwisely but somewhat consistently with his own commitments allowed for his work to be bent in unexpected directions passages like the following however are nothing but rorty ventriloquzing derrida in order to support his questionable pragmatist it s all just a language game forget boring transcendental arguments and be merry agenda with an undergraduate level method of mis interpretation what is most irritating is that pieces like this have influenced people s understanding admittedly especially in the english speaking world on the continent people often knew better than to listen to rorty of derrida s work and method for decades to come better to have enemies like sokal or searle than friends like rorty after having presented derrida as a pragmatist buddy all fun games and mockery and no argumentative rigour even rorty has to find a way to account for the fact that derrida actually does have philosophical affirmative theses and does build quasi transcenental arguments how simple by claiming that that s where derrida went wrong where he copped out unable to take the high pragmatist ironist road of doing just writing dropping good shadowy deconstruction to actually put forward bad constructive reasoning when reading stuff like this i wonder what kind of academic philosophical scene would allow rorty to become a relatively major name of american philosophy update i can put some extra meat on my argument regarding rorty s responsibility for the dismissive reception of derrida in anglophone philosophy with two examples i was just listening to philip kitcher s talk from the future of philosophy workshop which took place here in london in december 2010 you can find all the talks here the talk itself very interesting is now available as a paper recently published on metaphilosophy opening his talk kitcher warns his audience that he has been going pragmatist for a while and reports a joke from a colleague of his at columbia telling him it s a good job they didn t give you the jacques derrida chair of philosophy laughter from the audience i guess for analytic philosophers the joke is hilarious what would any continental philosopher read anyone who has read derrida define him a pragmatist quick answer no it is actually ironic since continental philosophers who don t like derrida usually wrongly again accuse him of being an idealist of sorts so what a pragmatist idealist rare breed whose fault is that kitcher s not well read friend s only partially the blame goes straightforwardly on rorty who basically brainwashed an entire generation of philosophers with his pragmatist ironist blabber want proof of that an article got my attention yesterday was suggested by pete wolfendale over on twitter it is jay rosenberg review essay of a number of books by on rorty titled raiders of the lost distinction richard rorty and the search for the last dichotomy which you can find here when a paper has a title like that you know you re up for a good ride and indeed rosenberg s essay is a ferociously sarcastic actually turning rorty s style against himself critique of rorty s positions no point in summarizing it because it s a constant scornful punchline you should read it for yourself i actually laughed out loud in a couple of places now why am i mentioning this because of this very telling passage and i suspect that rosenberg together with hundreds of others never got to read derrida precisely thanks to rorty s utterly nonsensical presentation of his work that wouldn t be too bad since it s perfectly fine if you don t want to read derrida but what is quite outrageous is that now derrida is called a pragmatist so well if you ve reached this post by googling rorty derrida i know that s happening quite a lot please do consider the option that rorty is to be kind not a reliable secondary source on his work rather ready anything chris norris wrote on derrida and indeed on rorty s appropriation of derrida to have a much more balanced idea on his work this interview is perhaps a good starting point posted in philosophy tags jacques derrida richard rorty nagel quote of the day march 4 2011 2 comments the last paragraph of the introduction of his classic the view from nowhere in days when claims of inventing new revolutionary solutions to philosophical problems seem to be standard practice and when self proclaimed innovators don t share nagel s feeling anymore i find this 25 years old paragraph still refreshingly honest posted in philosophy previous entries hypertiling in geometry tiling or tessellation is the use of 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