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[Evan Abla]

{Another lurker here and I'd like all of us to raise a toast to ethnocentrism and grand ole' nationalism.  By the way anyone know where the best wine is made and the best philosophy is done?  Cause' I have know idea what-so-ever.  But I will say it aint' California.  Viva la Differance!}


I do apologize for sounding as though I think that the "best" (again, whatever that is) of anything comes from anywhere in particular.  I would have to say that I was only trying to make light of any totality American, French, or otherwise.  You are correct in your assessment about philosophy.  We do tend to stand on the shoulders of the many international thinkers.  If I were to imply any specific French thought it would be that of Derrida or Levinas and they stood on Heideggar's, Kant's, etc. shoulders.  In addition to that neither of them are/were "French"  both are/were Jewish and neither are/were traditional "Western" thinkers.  

Sorry to incite confussion, I only meant to incite the exciting (I really do think this) banter that runs through the p-list at times.  I like you all very much (not that my opinion amounts to much of anything.

evan

<<It is still my hope, that philosophy (indeed the University)
will not succumb to the economic and political pressures of
the day. . . . In our time, when we have
unprecedented access to various cultural heritages, solid
advances in learning and translation, and technology, and
other innovations, academic philosophy should be expanding
and reflecting the convergence of not only  French and
American thought and East and West, but post-modern and
modern, and premodern. . . . >>

Evan M. Abla
eabla at nazarene.org

"Each of us is guilty before everyone, 
for everyone and for everything, and I more
than the others."
                                  --Fyodor Dostoevsky