Esquire Awards

[Lycidas at worldnet.att.net]

Lorentzen / Nicklaus wrote:
> 
> Lycidas at worldnet.att.net schrieb:
> 
> > we must be careful of claims that the French or the
> > Americans are doing the best philosophy
> 
>   you must be kidding ... kfl
> 
>   ps: meister eckhart, cusanus, böhme, leibniz, kant, fichte, schelling,
>   humboldt, schleiermacher, hegel, marx, schopenhauer, nietzsche, spengler,
>   klages, simmel, husserl, cassirer, scheler, jaspers, horkheimer, benjamin,
>   adorno, heidegger, blumenberg, schnädelbach, habermas, apel, luhmann,
>   sloterdijk ...
> 
>   pps: please keep the old mp joke to yourself. only this time.


On a more serious note, do you think Pynchon is particularly
rough on German philosophers? His attack on early modern
western philosophy is particularly rough on Leibniz, and his
attack on nineteenth and twentieth-century thought,
particularly those germans that venerated Kant, even as they
sought to go beyond him,  is very nasty.