Category Archives: Polemics

  1. Goldstone Report, Israel, and the Call for More Debate on Just War Theory

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    September 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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  2. Nostalgia for the 1940s and 50s

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    September 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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  3. Adam Kotsko, meet Mark Lilla

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    September 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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  4. Foucault on Power

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    September 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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  5. They write comments…

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    September 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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  6. Women in Philosophy

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    September 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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  7. On Sarcasm…

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    August 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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  8. Response to Negri on Italian philosophy

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    August 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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  9. Humans and Other Objects

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    August 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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  10. Rules of Engagement: Different Heroes, Please

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    August 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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