well I'm glad i'm entitled
whatever else it is that you are doing, Dominic, you are also reiterating
the proposition of the war against terror, but several stages back
but still proposing the colossal lie
and it's still a lie
Re
>I'm sure Lawrence is more than entitled to think that "context" a
cesspool - it forms part of the intellectual heritage of Nazism, for
instance, to the extent that Nazism was ever an intellectual movement
or capable of being mistaken for one by intellectuals. But knowing how
wars are justified, how policy is framed, how "reality" appears to the
realists and super-realists, is better in my view than holding one's
nose and preferring not to know.
that _context_ there in quote marks is actually YOUR word, not mine and I
didn't primarily say that anything was a cesspool
That's your rewrite of an implication.
I said it gets messy if you put your head down the lavatory. Now all I meant
was that we DO know what is down there and don't need to experiment there to
be sure.
Nothing about preferring not to know
You misrepresent me - and I believe yourself. I don't see any nose holding
L
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dominic Fox" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Monday, July 11, 2005 4:51 PM
Subject: Re: Robert Kagan on military power and perception
It's a pretty dog-eat-dog view of history...
But this is why I keep wheeling out people like Carl Schmidt (who
admittedly I only know through Derrida's _The Politics of
Friendship_). They are part of the intellectual context in which this
sort of stance is considered unexceptionable. Hence also delving into
Nietzsche here.
Not that I only want to know in order better to oppose. I want to know
in order to be better able to think - to entertain contradiction.
Dominic
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