Jacoby is really out of touch here. ^^^ CB: I really don't have a dog in this hunt, and I appreciate the general survey of the state of philo, but I thought Jacoby said that Marx, Freud and Hegel aren't taught much. I didn't read what you said as majorly contradicting that. ??
^^^^^ "Linguistic analysis" is at least a generation dead. We are at least two generations from the last of the LPs; I had the honor of being taught briefly by Carl Hempel, one of the last of and greatest of the lot. Hegel is off the untouchables list, at least since Charles Taylor's big book, itself a generation old now, although you wouldn't do Hegelian philosophy using Hegel's jargon. I have a huge shelf of recent Hegel scholarship, much done by people at mainstream institutions, that I cannot keep up with. Decartes is certainly not out and has ever been in my recollection. When I was at Tigertown on the mid 70s Margaret Wilson was teaching Descartes to crowded classrooms and Bernard Williams had just published. Marx of course enjoyed a renaissance at the prestige schools under the Analytical Marxists in 1975-1995 until they collapsed, along with the rest of Marxism, with the fall of Communism. ^^^^ CB: Aren't there lots of Marxists in China , still ? Cuba ? ^^^^ History and scholarship was and probably is somewhat disfavored as a general rule over "original" work in metaphysics, normative ethics, philosophy of mind, and other areas that ther logical positivists thought they'd put an end to, and continental history and scholarship, but even that is changing, I think, as the originality of original work is in sharp and visible decline and logical positivism a d analytical philosophy themselves become subjects for history of philosophy, and are being treated historically by philosophers who formerly did "original" work. --- On Tue, 8/5/08, Charles Brown <charlesb at cncl.ci.detroit.mi.us> wrote: > From: Charles Brown <charlesb at cncl.ci.detroit.mi.us> > Subject: [Marxism-Thaxis] Studying philosophy at the New School > To: marxism-thaxis at lists.econ.utah.edu > Date: Tuesday, August 5, 2008, 1:28 PM > [Marxism] Studying philosophy at the New School > Louis Proyect lnp3 at panix.com > Fri Aug 1 14:15:29 MDT 2008 > > Previous message: [Marxism] Paul Le Blanc on the Trotsky > Legacy conference > Next message: [Marxism] Studying philosophy at the New > School > Messages sorted by: [ date ] [ thread ] [ subject ] [ > author ] > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > A couple of items that I stumbled across on the net lately > have gotten > me thinking about time spent as a graduate student in the > philosophy > department of the New School back in 1965 to 1967. > > The first was an article titled “Why are some of the > greatest thinkers > being expelled from their disciplines?” that appeared in > the July 25th > Chronicle of Higher Education (unfortunately limited to > subscribers or > some university employees like myself). Written by UCLA > professor and > long-time semi-Marxist social commentator Russell Jacoby, > it called > attention to the disappearance of Freud, Marx and Hegel > from academia: This message has been scanned for malware by SurfControl plc. www.surfcontrol.com _______________________________________________ Marxism-Thaxis mailing list Marxism-Thaxis@lists.econ.utah.edu To change your options or unsubscribe go to: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/listinfo/marxism-thaxis
