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• Stirring the Pot…

  
  Sub Specie Aeterni — Authority: 110
  I recently began reading The Future of Religion by Rorty and Vattimo. The following quote was lifted from the intro, written by the translator, Santiago Zabala: “The only truth that the Bible reveals to us is the practical appeal to love, to charity. The truth of Christianity is the dissolution of the ...
  1 week ago

• New poll: Capitalism not too hot

  
  MSH — Authority: 122
  New poll: Capitalism not too hot (monkeysmashesheaven.wordpress.com) A recent poll has people talking. The results of the poll are a sharp contrast to the free-market triumphalism of the 1990s. Intellectuals were declaring the victory of capitalism. In the 1989 book, the End of History and the Last Man, Francis ...
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• Richard Rorty on Human Rights and Sympathy

  
  P.A.P. Blog - Human Rights Etc. — Authority: 479
  Richard Rorty ( source ) Richard Rorty has an interesting take on human rights. If we want universal acceptance of and respect for human rights, we shouldn’t try to argue about it. We shouldn’t attempt to work out rational justifications of human rights, or arguments that will convince people that human ...
  2 weeks ago

• Challenging Philosophy: Richard Rorty, Bernard Williams, Michel Foucault

  
  requiem for certainty — Authority: 92
  The three most important philosophers of the second half of the twentieth century were Bernard Williams, Michel Foucault, and Richard Rorty . The importance of each can in large part be attributed to the profound challenges they posed to entrenched assumptions about philosophy, its role in our lives, and its place ...
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• Rorty on Foucault in 1981

  
  Foucault blog — Authority: 117
  Reviewing three new books by Foucault in 1981, Richard Rorty wrote:Russell and Wittgenstein and Heidegger and Sartre are dead, and it looks as if there are no great philosophers left alive. At the end of his book, Alan Sheridan hesitantly stakes a claim for Foucault: ‘It is difficult to conceive of any thinker ...
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• The Newest Enemy Of The Islamic Regime In Iran

  
  The New Ledger Chequer-Board — Authority: 145
  Max Weber. Yeah, seriously : An unlikely suspect was fingered at the recent show trials of Iranian dissidents: Max Weber, whose ideas on rational authority were blamed for fomenting a “velvet revolution” against the Islamic Republic. “Theories of the human sciences contain ideological weapons that can be ...
  3 weeks ago

• Poetry and Narrative in Performance, part I -- Anselm Berrigan

  
  Harriet: The Blog — Authority: 528
  I remembered recently the existence of a letter my stepfather, the British poet and novelist Douglas Oliver, wrote me thirteen years ago to explain, on my request, the series of experiments he conducted in his study of prosody and voicing, Poetry and Narrative in Performance . The book was published in 1989, and I ...
  5 weeks ago

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