If you want to know what the common sense of the bookish will be like fifty years from now, read the philosophers currently being attacked as ‘irrationalist’. (French theorists, Derrida et al)
Then discount the constructive part of what they are saying.
Concentrate on the negative things,
the criticisms they make of the tradition.
That dismissal of the 'common sense' of the past will be the enduring achievement
of the long-dead ‘irrationalist’.
Source Richard Rorty
Then discount the constructive part of what they are saying.
Concentrate on the negative things,
the criticisms they make of the tradition.
That dismissal of the 'common sense' of the past will be the enduring achievement
of the long-dead ‘irrationalist’.
Source Richard Rorty
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