Chris, y
Candiceou seem to be neglecting Anglo-American
analytic philosophy for Continental philosophy,
wherein Deleuze is the most important philosopher (as
you say). Some would argue that Continental philosophy
has taken over, from Derrida on, but since analytic
philosophy is the "brand" taught in most U.S.
philosophy departments, it cannot be dismissed
lightly. Others argue that, with Continental
philosophy, rhetoric is the most conspicuous feature.
What do you think? Does Nietzsche's Eternal Return and
theory of Untimeliness belong to an era when it could
stand, rhetorically, for philosophy?
Candice
I want to know the same thing
Everyone wants to know
How's it going to end?
(Tom Waits)
--- Chris Jones <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Alison comes very close here to my arguments with
> Nietzsche's body
> idealism and especially the Romantic cut of the
> Eternal Return we
> inherit from Heidegger and most recently the
> metaphysicians Deleuze and
> Badiou who all rely on the weak question of what a
> body can do inherited
> from Spinoza. Kant don't stand a chance in this
> line-up. (In terms of
> the history of philosophy it would still be correct
> to say that Deleuze
> is the most important philosopher since Kant. But
> what a weak and sickly
> history of the body is this. What sickness is
> philosophy!)
>
> On Sun, 2007-02-18 at 10:04 +1100, Alison Croggon
> wrote:
> > My feeling is that people write poems, and people
> have bodies. We all
> > abstract the desire to write in different ways
> (muse, language,
> > whatever) but however we abstract those mysterious
> and largely
> > untraceable processes of our minds, the rhythms
> are physical, are
> > heard in the ear, felt in the body, said with the
> lips and tongue and
> > palate and larynx and breath. The body, after all,
> is inhabited by
> > many intelligences.
>
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