tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33488833.post5453630156888586879..comments2023-11-02T02:14:31.901-06:00Comments on ReadMoreWriteMoreThinkMoreBeMore: On Being (And Not Being) A "Philosopher"Doctor Jhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13189506916480012553noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33488833.post-27276723553558605892010-07-06T07:01:06.505-05:002010-07-06T07:01:06.505-05:00This reminds me of the joke about Chican@ identity...This reminds me of the joke about Chican@ identity: they didn't cross the border, the border crossed them!anotherpanaceahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08170804573665745672noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33488833.post-1747415648492608912009-05-18T13:39:00.000-05:002009-05-18T13:39:00.000-05:00One of the most ridiculous things about current pr...One of the most ridiculous things about current professional philosophy is the level of anxiety about what philosophy is and isn't. When I first went to graduate school I got all torn up in knots about it, organized a conference and edited a collection addressing the issue. Now I realize I couldn't care a fig about the question of who's "in" and who's "out." I'm for a broad church (or "big tent" as they say in this country) and wish that our discipline would transmute into a homebase for the theoretical humanities, for the "meta" stuff writ large. As it stands, the siege mentality threatens to make the discipline less and less relevant... rats in a maze riddled with anxieties of belonging...<br /><br />A girl can dream...emma b.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33488833.post-77613446063367821722009-05-17T14:03:00.000-05:002009-05-17T14:03:00.000-05:00I wonder how much of her disavowal of the label "p...I wonder how much of her disavowal of the label "philosopher" depends on her having studied with Heidegger who (at least on an orthodox account of his views) restricts philosophy to metaphysics... Even on this narrow construal of "philosophy", exactly what Arendt's theory of the construction of the social or the vita activa in the Human Condition other than philosophy isn't clear.Ammon Allredhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16390979234756277892noreply@blogger.com