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Richard Rorty, the only American cited in all three of the Terry Eagleton books reviewed here, gets just one mention in Materialism, but it’s such a tell I’ll quote Eagleton’s sentence whole, nosegay of quotation marks and all: ” ‘Anti-philosophy,’ declares Richard Rorty, ‘is more unprofessional, funnier, more allusive, sexier, and above all more “written” than conventional philosophy.'” What makes this a tell is how aptly it describes Eagleton himself while ostensibly honoring his heart’s delight, Wittgenstein. And if you doubt that either Wittgenstein or Eagleton is sexy, you’ve been sandbagged by its faux-pro-forma comparison. Take heart — compared to conventional philosophy, you’re probably pretty sexy too.
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