Sunday, September 09, 2007

Decadent postmoderns

And this to fulfill your philosophy needs:

Decadent postmoderns: "For a scathing indictment of the existentialist philosophers, Jean-Paul Sartre and Martin Heidegger, and postmodern 'philosopher' (I use the term loosely), Michel Foucault, see Christopher's post, 'Revolutionary Intellectuals' (Against the Grain, September 1, 2007). The discussion is occasioned by Gerald Augustinus' dismissal of Jean Paul Sartre at Closed Cafeteria (to which http://vox-nova.com/2007/08/31/whos-afraid-of-existentialism/) -- the former referencing Fr. Neuhaus' post Sartre, Legal Scholarship, and Those Troublesome Male Pronouns 'On the Square') and the following excerpt from Clive James' Cultural Amnesia: Necessary Memories from History and the Arts. Complete with personal confessions of capitulation to the existentialist seduction and delicious quotes from Paul Johnson's wonderful book, Intellectuals, it's sure to provoke a plethora of responses."



(Via Musings of a Pertinacious Papist.)

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