Transatlantic jokes about philosophy

[matthew cissell]

      We should add that there are thinkers who do not fit in that dyadic
reduction very well. Bourdieu refers to Searle and Rawls, Cavell mentions
Heidegger.

    Of course this joke is at its funniest with thinkers like Deleuze
talking about Wittgenstien's work as the disaster of philosophy (
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NgG00VZGP0E ) or Quine protesting Derridas
nomination for an honorary degree from Cambridge.

   All a good example of how agents in a field interact based in part on
the positions they assume even as they are drawn to those positions; a
demonstration of their investment & belief in the stakes of the game.

MC

On Fri, Jan 9, 2015 at 11:48 AM, Kai Frederik Lorentzen <
lorentzen at hotmail.de> wrote:

>
> On 08.01.2015 19:05, Becky Lindroos wrote:
>
>  Old joke:
>> American thinking - Yes, that looks good in theory,  but does it work on
>> practice?
>> French thinking - Yes,  that all fine and well in practice, but does it
>> fit with theory?
>>
>>
>>
>
> Analytic philosophers think that continental philosophy is not
> sufficiently clear,
> continental philosophers think that analytic philosophy is not sufficient.
>
>
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