[lit-ideas] Re: Understanding society
- From: "Julie Krueger" <juliereneb@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 2 Jan 2009 17:49:52 -0600
A wonderful site -- I look forward to perusing it during my leisurely
(fingers crossed) Saturday. In the meantime, it's not MY fault that the
lit-id list eschews the phenomenologists...
Julie Krueger
On Fri, Jan 2, 2009 at 5:32 PM, John McCreery <john.mccreery@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:
> A few messages back, Robert Paul sighed about the reduction of
> philosophical discussion on lit-ideas to an endless re-hash of Wittgenstein
> and Kant. For a whole bunch of fresh angles, allow me to suggest a look at
> Daniel Little's Understanding Society blog.
> http://understandingsociety.blogspot.com/
>
> His most recent post on philosophy of history and its immediate
> predecessor, which raises, among other interesting issues, the question why
> there is no philosophy of plumbing (a topic of particular interest to our
> Sage of Memphis, I suggest) are good places to start, on what seems to be a
> massive undertaking to critically review all of the basic concepts used in
> scholarly talk about society.
>
> Best wishes for the New Year.
>
> John
>
> --
> John McCreery
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