The answer is that Foucault couldn't reduce any anxiety and that Derrida has really only shown we should be less sure of more or less everything, which I do find reassuring. The warning in both is about totalising forms of thinking. My preference is for good old American pragmatism and practical scientific methods where we can apply them. Derrida can be read as asserting poetics and humour. There is a long history of aporia, which we might take as revelling in roads to nowhere, as in the song, or as despair in Wittgenstein that language bewitches us in making us ask the same old questions, rather than devise new ones.
On 1 Feb, 03:52, Don Johnson <[email protected]> wrote: > Yeah, and when you get to where that road take you, > be sure to pay no attention to the man behind the curtain. > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWyCCJ6B2WE > > dj > > On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 11:09 AM, nominal9 <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hello Paul: > > I am "diametrically opposed" epistemologically to the Phenomenalist > > position. Nice to meet you, however.... > > "Does Merleau-Ponty 'fill in the gaps' that Heidegger left?".... Blind > > leading the Blind.... > > " Do Foucault or Derrida give you a path out of modern anxiety? > > ".....Follow the Yellow Brick Road..... > > > nominal9 > > > On Jan 30, 6:36 am, Paul Grieg <[email protected]> wrote: > >> This is one of my favourite philosophy interviews: > > >>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aaGk6S1qhz0&feature=related > > >> Can any of you answer these questions: > > >> Does Merleau-Ponty 'fill in the gaps' that Heidegger left? > > >> Do Foucault or Derrida give you a path out of modern anxiety? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups ""Minds Eye"" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Minds-Eye?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
