Re: Re: escaping the private...

My name is not Clifford. It is Christine and I am Orphee
As I said Rorty rhymes with Shorty and there ain't nocure
for Wittgenstein discalced and displaced via Rorty.
- Oh, well.

O i love it.

On Tue, 10 Apr 2001, Nathan Goralnik wrote:

> Clifford sez:
>
> > itz so Obvious Nate that Rorty is out of it.
>
> No, not really. I've previously thrashed his public/private distinction on
> the list, but I'm not sure why it is "obvious" that he is "out of it." If
> you read Rorty against people like Foucault and various contemporary
> Heideggerians (I'm thinking in particular of William Spanos), you begin to
> take more seriously Foucault's qualifications in "What Is Enlightenment?"
> Why don't we treat liberal humanism like a toolbox? I think we'll find a lot
> of really useful tools inside.
>
> Can you explain your objections to me, Clifford?
>
> Thanks darl
> Nate
>


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