Category Archives: Polemics
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Goldstone Report, Israel, and the Call for More Debate on Just War Theory
Leave a commentSeptember 20, 2009 by Peter Gratton
This is I think the longest response of any I’ve seen in the US to the UN Golstone report released …
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Nostalgia for the 1940s and 50s
Leave a commentSeptember 17, 2009 by Peter Gratton
I was making this point in class earlier today and I had missed David Brooks’ eulogy for the lost …
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Adam Kotsko, meet Mark Lilla
5September 15, 2009 by Peter Gratton
Adam Kotsko has a nice rendering of a widespread logic employed in conservative thinking. It just so happened that …
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Foucault on Power
Leave a commentSeptember 10, 2009 by Peter Gratton
I’m editing something of mine right now on Foucault. It seems suitable for here, since for now I’m leaving it …
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They write comments…
Leave a commentSeptember 7, 2009 by Peter Gratton
Occasionally, I’ll pull up comments that I see in my inbox from below the posts since I tend to miss …
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Women in Philosophy
5September 7, 2009 by Peter Gratton
I guess a day spent reading Beyond Good and Evil is not the best time to post on women and …
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On Sarcasm…
2August 27, 2009 by Peter Gratton
Rovati does mention this, which I take issue with: When sarcasm becomes the systematic shortcut for analysis, I doubt that …
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Response to Negri on Italian philosophy
Leave a commentAugust 27, 2009 by Peter Gratton
Pier Rovati has a response to Negri’s pamphlet on Italian philosophy… In spite of appearances, Antonio Negri’s obscure pamphlet ‘The …
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Humans and Other Objects
2August 24, 2009 by Peter Gratton
Larval Subjects has a great post up responding to Paul Ennis’s thought experiment on the future of speculative realism, namely that there …
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Rules of Engagement: Different Heroes, Please
Leave a commentAugust 22, 2009 by Peter Gratton
If I’ve been reading my Continental political philosophy right over the past few years, I really must have gone wrong …
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