[lit-ideas] Re: Decisions, decisions

  • From: "Erin Holder" <erin.holder@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sun, 24 Oct 2004 20:03:10 -0400

What about Cioran?  I think I'm one of two people that likes Cioran.  The
other is the individual who made me read his work.

Erin
Toronto


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Harold Hungerford" <hh@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, October 24, 2004 7:35 PM
Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Decisions, decisions


> The publisher is Open Court, which -- subject to correction from Robert
> Paul -- has for many years been a distinguished maverick publisher of
> philosophy, including a long series of books containing critiques of
> some of the world's most notable philosophers with responses from the
> critiquee. Unless their standards have degraded significantly, the fact
> of their being the publisher is significant.
>
> A sequel is coming out in March 2005, also from Open Court.
>
> The Pooh books were written by Fred Crews, sometime chair of English at
> Berkeley and now vigorous enemy of Freud, as parodies of current
> fashions in literary criticism. There is nothing pop about them.
>
> And, just as a troll, what kind of philosophy does Robert Paul prefer?
> It may help to know that my three hard drives are named Aristotle,
> Averroes, and Aquinas (three masters of those who know, and worth
> reading even for complete unbelievers like me). When the fourth comes,
> it will be named Rorty. Wittgenstein is on the waitlist. Heidegger is
> not, nor, emphatically, is Plato. Erin will no doubt be happy to know
> that Kant and Fichte aren't either.
>
> Harold Hungerford
> Santa Rosa, California


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