[CP] New email groups

From: Sean Wilson <whoooo26505@xxxxxxxxx>
To: LAWCOURT-L@xxxxxxxxxx, conlawprof@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Sun, 18 Jul 2010 20:35:27 -0700 (PDT)
Greetings.

I've started two new discussion groups (below). They'll be slow at first. I'd 
like to recruit some good people for them. Would be appreciative if you passed 
them along to graduate students and other faculty.

Two preliminaries. I started the groups because of the private mails I get in 
response to my comments here and elsewhere. People seem to like one-on-one's 
with me. Now, there is a forum for that. Feel free to participate anonymously 
if 
you like (some do that on my Wittgenstein site).

The technology on the sites are pretty friendly. You don't have to join the 
group to participate. You can read them on the web at may different places 
(yahoo, google, freelists, and the discussion board). The group comes in 
discussion-board format as well as email format -- you can use either vehicle 
and never miss a message. 

Here are the groups:

CRITICAL POLITICOLOGY

link:    http://ludwig.squarespace.com/politicology/

This group provides an intellectual critique of the American academy, and a 
discussion about American culture, value and politics. The group is 
particularly 
harsh on what academics call "political science." This social club is both more 
lost and irrelevant than it has ever been. Politics is more in the nature of an 
aesthetic than a science. Hence, the term "politicology" is offered as a 
substitute (cf. "sociology"). In a sense, this group is about forming a new 
understanding of how to have a bird's eye view of culture, politics, history 
and 
philosophy. The group shows how to become, teach and think like a 
politicologist. The essence is intellectual context, not information. And 
intellectual freedom, rather than social-club norms. The group believes that 
the 
academy in general, and American culture in particular, suffer from the same 
sorts of contemporary illnesses. The failings of the one relate to the failings 
of the other.
 

SECOND GROUP:  LAW AND META PERSPECTIVE

link:     http://ludwig.squarespace.com/metalaw/

This group is devoted to ending the perspectival account of law (e.g., "law and 
society") without resurrecting either strict objectivism or formalism. Instead, 
the goal is to attain "meta-perspective." The idea is simple: the thing that 
affords us perspective must, by necessity, also allow for meta-perspective, if 
we simply continue our quest to understand. Hence, a good account of law should 
involve all of the "perspectives" -- society, politics, economics, philosophy, 
literature, etc. A good legal scholar, therefore, should be meta-perspectival. 
In essence, then, this group allows perspectivism (Nietzsche) to win the 
battle, 
but not the war.

Regards and thanks

Dr. Sean Wilson, Esq.
Assistant Professor
Wright State University
Personal Website: http://seanwilson.org
SSRN papers: http://ssrn.com/author=596860
New Discussion Groups! http://ludwig.squarespace.com/discussionfora/
[CP] New email groups

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