Friday, April 25, 2008
Chabert is back
LI is psyched to see that Le Colonel Chabert is back at her post, after one of her mysterious disappearances from the blogging world - no doubt, she was in deep confab with the Illuminati. LCC's last round was a full scale attack on the 68 French philosophes, like LI's patron saint, Derrida - and you might think it curious that I have any affection for that. But, at least in the world of philosophy, Heraclitus's words apply: polemos panton men pater esti, war is the father of all things. Most of the philosophes are dead now, and depend on us for their continued existence. How sad it would be if that existence consisted of tedious and bureaucratic applications of them to fill in, like a sort of all purpose tar, the crevasses in tenure track papers, continually churning! Far better the fierce response, the sortie from out of the underbrush! And not, either, of the dismissive, Brian Leiter variety, which is all about sheer ignorance - that's not a sortie, that's the tax collector.
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thanks for the fanfare - i have picked up your gauntlet finally; the only problem is i don't think i have any seconds; i'll have to drag some trolls out of a tavern, like a truely moody libertine hero.
LCC, you underestimate your deep ties to the elemental spirits of anarchy, which will come gently to your call, and take the place of measly mortal seconds.
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