tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4718590941586269256.post7771997608840953810..comments2023-08-14T21:18:14.796-04:00Comments on Honest Toil: "Reactionary Nostalgia"Chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10838633162146762394noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4718590941586269256.post-39776993626623748322008-07-30T11:35:00.000-04:002008-07-30T11:35:00.000-04:00I note from your CV that you’re about 15 years you...I note from your CV that you’re about 15 years younger than me. I don’t think things have changed as much as I would have expected when people like Rorty, Taylor, and Dreyfus were first bridging the analytic-continental divide now over a quarter-century ago. Opinion leaders like Leiter still call Derrida ‘that charlatan’, and there is still the migration of people to disciplines outside Steve Fullerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03733170530776428091noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4718590941586269256.post-17651302317007513142008-07-29T11:19:00.000-04:002008-07-29T11:19:00.000-04:00I am a bit more optimistic about analytic philosop...I am a bit more optimistic about analytic philosophers eventually being able to write their own history that places it in its broader intellectual context. We can compare the reaction to <A HREF="http://www.amazon.com/Gottlob-Frege-Arguments-Philosophers-Sluga/dp/0710004745" REL="nofollow">Sluga's book on Frege</A> in 1980 with the reaction to <A HREF="http://books.google.com/books?id=Chrishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10838633162146762394noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4718590941586269256.post-55612721623087561312008-07-28T12:54:00.000-04:002008-07-28T12:54:00.000-04:00Error: Gross's book is published by Chicago. I'm l...Error: Gross's book is published by Chicago. I'm looking at it now.Steve Fullerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03733170530776428091noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4718590941586269256.post-31991757126082711222008-07-28T12:51:00.000-04:002008-07-28T12:51:00.000-04:00One problem I think you'll find in trying to piece...One problem I think you'll find in trying to piece together the relevant history is that the people who write about the history of 'American philosophy' -- e.g. Bruce Kucklick and David Hollinger -- tend to be pragmatists who perhaps became historians because they disapproved of the axiological decline within the analytic establishment that professionalised the discipline starting in the 1950s. Steve Fullerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03733170530776428091noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4718590941586269256.post-79292011284228407752008-07-27T19:12:00.000-04:002008-07-27T19:12:00.000-04:00Thanks for your comment, which has the honor of be...Thanks for your comment, which has the honor of being the first on this blog! Thanks also for the references -- I am familiar with the Reisch book, but have not gone through the Proctor book. Another recent history of analytic philosophy is <A HREF="http://ndpr.nd.edu/review.cfm?id=12906" REL="nofollow">Preston's</A>.<BR/><BR/>On McCumber, I think there is something right about his perception of Chrishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10838633162146762394noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4718590941586269256.post-31931131835350452008-07-26T17:27:00.000-04:002008-07-26T17:27:00.000-04:00Three points on this post. The first is that Levit...Three points on this post. The first is that Levitt is completely unreliable as to my views, let alone their motivations. The fact that he seems to like to 'criticize' me is best left for him to explain. The second point, and probably more interesting for your purposes, is that there is a book that begins to do a history of what Levitt is gesturing towards, which does say a bit about the rise of Steve Fullerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03733170530776428091noreply@blogger.com