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Habermas’s Peircean Fallibilism
Posted on July 30, 2007 | No CommentsAfter all of the underbrush of Between Facts and Norms is cleared – all the constitutional identity stuff, all the deliberative democracy stuff, etc – there’s still the naive question: what, exactly is between facts and norms? This is obviously... -
What Isn’t Argument?
Posted on July 27, 2007 | No CommentsWe’ve been going back and forth with a colleague who has a near-reflexive need to want to expand the horizon of what counts as “argument”. As near as we can tell, argument for him is present whenever speakers gesture toward... -
Prof. Nietzsche Frowns Upon Your Glib Globalized Paradigms
Posted on July 22, 2007 | No CommentsFor all that he’s appropriated as a proto-postmodernist, Nietzsche is as profoundly anti-reductionist as he is anti-universalist. Rather than these extremes, he emphasizes the circumstantial. Christian values originate as an outgrowth and reversal of Jewish values (GM). Debilitating skepticism is... -
“Nietzsche Was A Nihilist” And “Nietzsche Was An Anti-Semite” Had A Race To the Bottom
Posted on July 21, 2007 | No CommentsOriginal title: “Was Nietzsche A Nihilist?”; entirety of first paragraph: “No.” The problem is that, of the two arrogant mistakes that a student can make – the swaggering of a second-year undergrad’s “this giant was ‘just wrong’” or the boasting... -
Rhetoric Not So Much With the Revolution Thing
Posted on July 16, 2007 | 1 CommentFor some reason, dealing seriously with language ingrains in a scholar a certain skepticism when it comes to revolutionary change. Lacan, for instance, is at his most explicitly rhetorical when developing his theory of the Four Discourses. His famous and... -
Welcome to IIS
Posted on July 15, 2007 | No CommentsWelcome to the first post on Icon Index Symbol, where we’ll be attempting to see whether a graduate student really can make an academic career implode by mixing glib dismissal of powerful thinkers, snark about colleagues, and Google. Anything after...
