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Category Archives: philosophy
Logic of post-modern thought
February 19, 2010 – 12:57 pm
The role played by “sympathy” in the middle ages, as Foucault develops it in The Order of Things, is today played by “contagion” (though we don’t know it).
Some support for Schumpeter
September 2, 2009 – 7:40 pm
The last book I read was Joseph Schumpeter’s Capitalism, Social, and Democracy, a book famous for coining the phrase “creative destruction” as a description of the process inherent to capitalism whereby old methods of production and commodities are incessantly obsolesced and replaced–an insight drawn, I believe, from Marx’s talk about capitalism constantly revolutionizing the means [...]
Pascal vs. Callwood
June 15, 2009 – 10:22 pm
If Callwood and Pascal had been pre-socratics, all would be either hate or love (respectively)
Some philosophical kisses
June 1, 2009 – 9:32 pm
The Heidegger kiss: all your kisses are okay, but never as good as before the latinization of Greece.
Yochai Benkler on the End of Universal Rationality
May 5, 2009 – 5:39 pm
How the myth of wholly self-interested individuals is holding us back