On 4/9/06, Ralph Dumain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This is all quite true, but there's more. Did I send to this list part one > of my review of Badiou's article on French philosophy in NEW LEFT REVIEW? > Please send the Badiou review or point me to it.... would love to read it. He is a friend of one of my old law professors and I had a long talk with him last year. It seemed to me his ideas about set theory and philosophy were considerably crackpot. But he impressed all of the pomos at my old law school. I kept on asking myself, "Why are they so impressed?" So I read a couple of his books... and he gives an impression of a more rigorous post-Marxist.... But when I knew a subject well that he wrote about I thought he was wrong.
> The star system in France also relates to its highly centralized cultural > system. The concept of cultural capital now in vogue could never have > originated anywhere but in France, and itself is the product of how > bourgeois culture emerged out of aristocratic culture, France being the > cultural capital of European feudalism. Furthermore, French philosophy, > with its penchant for impersonal, schematic, and quasi-mathematical > formalized theoretical schemes, reflects the conditions of the French > educational and cultural system, and even the rebellion against it, with a > penchant for irrationalism, linguistic play, psychoanalysis, obsessions > with the body, etc., is determined and wholly encapsulated by the very same > conditions. And if you take a cold hard look at all the innovations in > French philosophy since the introduction of Hegel, Husserl, and Heidegger > in the 1920s-30, you should find it all rather inferior to what the German > philosophical tradition had already accomplished with the Frankfurt School > in the 1930s. This is very good Ralph and thanks for putting out the function of cultural centralization..... > > At 03:13 PM 4/9/2006 -0400, Jerry Monaco wrote: > >"After studying philosophy at an elite university under luminaries of > >French left-wing thought such as Jacques Derrida and Louis Althusser, > >Levy became one of the leaders of the so-called 'New Philosophy' > >movement, which reacted against the Marxist dogmatism of the French > >left." > > > >So Derrida is of the "French left-wing?" Roll over Robespierre! > > > >"He has been also accused of over-simplifying complex > >issues for mass consumption." > > > >Which seems to me the opposite of what most French philosophers do now > >days.... making complex what should be simple.... > > > >"Philippe Cohen, the author of another critical biography, told The > >Observer Levy's success showed everything that was wrong with > >intellectual life in France today. 'His thinking is entirely unoriginal. > >There is this idea that he is a philosopher when actually he is > >representative of nothing other than the pauperisation of French > >intellectual life.' He has been also accused of over-simplifying complex > >issues for mass consumption." > > > >All of this is just the result of the French star-system, where > >writers are traditionally in the position of "glamourous" > >entertainers.... All of this is not the problem of philosophy it is > >the problem of "star" systems in general. > > > >_______________________________________________ > >Marxism-Thaxis mailing list > >[email protected] > >To change your options or unsubscribe go to: > >http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/listinfo/marxism-thaxis > > > _______________________________________________ > Marxism-Thaxis mailing list > [email protected] > To change your options or unsubscribe go to: > http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/listinfo/marxism-thaxis > -- Jerry Monaco's Philosophy, Politics, Culture Weblog is Shandean Postscripts to Politics, Philosophy, and Culture http://monacojerry.livejournal.com/ His fiction, poetry, weblog is Hopeful Monsters: Fiction, Poetry, Memories http://www.livejournal.com/users/jerrymonaco/ Notes, Quotes, Images - From some of my reading and browsing http://www.livejournal.com/community/jerry_quotes/ _______________________________________________ Marxism-Thaxis mailing list [email protected] To change your options or unsubscribe go to: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/listinfo/marxism-thaxis
