Note: technical problems resulted in this duplication, but as Eric's additions are in fact very funny, we'll leave both versions up.
[Posting on behalf of Protevi; the title of this post is Schliesser's--ES.]
Deleuze
gives a technical sense of "stupid" (bête) in Chapter 3 of Difference
and Repetition: the inability to distinguish the ordinary and trivial
from the singular and important. But that's not the only sense
of stupid this column displays: the everyday sense of "not very smart"
also works.
Beyond
the absurdly anachronistic attempted reduction of AP ['AP' = Analytical Philosophy--ES] to language
analysis -- thus missing the singular moment of the revival of analytic
metaphysics
-- there is this head scratcher:
"In
the 18th century, Immanuel Kant posited ideas such as "categories of
the mind" and "transcendental apperception" that were themselves beyond
philosophical
interrogation..."
To use some netspeak: Rlly? Srsly? WTF?
Read for yourself, there's plenty more like that.
Let
me just take this occasion to formally disavow any alignment with these
jokers [not to be confused with the supervillian in the Batman series--] and to say that this proud CP person ['CP' = Continental Philosophy] does not take them to be
representative of any movement to which
I belong.
Or
to return to my beloved snark idiom, to put it in the immortal words of
Elaine Benes: "That stuff is weak. I'm not buying it and you shouldn't
be selling it."
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