The following letter appeared today in the British daily newspaper The
Guardian, in response to a letter yesterday from Antony Easthope. I wonder
if anyone on this list would like to comment....
"Antony Easthope opines that French philosophy shows us what it is like to
live at the end of the 20th Century "more intimately and completely than
anything else." Now that really is a load of old tosh. What has French
philosophy to say about unemployment, poverty, child prostitution, drugs
the state of our justice system or our disappearing democracy? Rien. Its
rigid jargon and cumbersome neologisms preclude knowing anything either
"intimately" or "completely". The only way French theory connects with late
20th century life is in the philosophical support it gives to market
economics."
Best wishes,
Peter
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Peter Gates
Convenor
Centre for the Study of Mathematics Education
University of Nottingham
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Great Britain
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