Sraffa and Wittgenstein? Good heavens. Not an easy or apparent connection. Do come off line and tell me more.
bonobashi --- On Sun, 16/11/08, Abhishek Hazra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: Abhishek Hazra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [silk] When I Have The Time > To: [email protected] > Date: Sunday, 16 November, 2008, 3:16 PM > >>Just a silly, very silly example: Just taking up the > influence of Gramsci > on latter-day Marxism and how it seagues off into Derrida > and deconstruction > as a literary and philosophical tool, and the links with > subaltern studies, > could take a lifetime in itself. > > talking of influence, there has been some work which traces > the > interconnections between Gramsci's indirect influence > on the later > Wittgenstein through the intellectual inter mediation of > the economist > Pierro Sraffa (when they were colleagues in Cambridge) > > abhishek > > On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 2:36 PM, Bonobashi > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > --- On Sun, 16/11/08, Chandrachoodan Gopalakrishnan > < > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > From: Chandrachoodan Gopalakrishnan > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > Subject: Re: [silk] When I Have The Time > > > To: [email protected] > > > Date: Sunday, 16 November, 2008, 12:02 PM > > > On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 10:36 AM, Udhay Shankar N > > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > Mohit (मॊिहत) wrote, [on > 11/15/2008 9:05 > > > AM]: > > > > > > > > > I need to learn how to use > chopsticks...and > > > swimming...and > > > > > dancing...and smiling while stabbing > someone. > > > > > > > > That reminds me of all of the various things > that I > > > will do When I have > > > > The Time (small unrepresentative sample > follows) > > > > > > > > * Masters degree in cryptography > > > > * Learn Perl > > > > * Find those treasured old college ripped > jeans and > > > lose 2 inches around > > > > the middle so I can wear them, dammit > > > > * Krav Maga > > > > * Finish off my TBR pile (~200 books at last > count) > > > > * Get back to reasonable fluency in French > > > > * Meet up with all the several dozen friends > with whom > > > my primary > > > > interaction these days is occasional phone > calls > > > saying "we MUST meet" > > > > > > > > Share yours, o wise ones? > > > > > > > > This has the makings of a[nother] monster > thread. > > > > > > > > > > Well, seriously though, here's what I'd > like to do. > > > > > > 1) Really study history - not make jabs at it. > > > 2) Learn three languages - one European, one > Asian and one > > > Indic > > > 3) Do the east coast of India bike trip. > (I've done > > > about a third of the TN > > > coast, though not on one trip) > > > 4) Go from Madras to London on the bike > > > 5) Sleep > > > 6) Learn to decipher old tamil/grantha/brahmi > scripts. Work > > > with the > > > Epigraphical society/ASI in TN > > > 7) At least make a list of books that I have not > read > > > > > > > > > C > > > > > > Do you want to know a lot about history - and > that's vague enough as it is > > - or do you want to be an historian? Those are two > hugely different > > categories and states of being. > > > > Regarding your list of books, what books? Fiction, > non-fiction, academic, > > belles-lettres....Unless you're reasonably sure > what you want to read, how > > easy or difficult is it to make a list? > > > > Just a silly, very silly example: Just taking up the > influence of Gramsci > > on latter-day Marxism and how it seagues off into > Derrida and deconstruction > > as a literary and philosophical tool, and the links > with subaltern studies, > > could take a lifetime in itself. So would a > sociological and historical > > analysis of Georgette Heyer. Or one could just curl up > with a good book and > > to the devil with the serious stuff. > > > > My humble tuppence, which may be worth less, is that > one needs to focus > > fiercely to get anything intellectually or > academically useful done within a > > single lifetime. And it usually doesn't work even > then. > > > > Did you read history in college by any chance? > > > > bonobashi > > > > > > Add more friends to your messenger and enjoy! Go > to > > http://messenger.yahoo.com/invite/ > > > > > > > -- > - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - > does the frog know it has a latin name? > - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Add more friends to your messenger and enjoy! Go to http://messenger.yahoo.com/invite/
