December « 2006

Frère Jacques: a Chronicle about Derrida and GA

By gans, on December 25th, 2006 |

Thanks to the previous post, I don’t have to provide a link to Chronicle 339, “Originary Demography.” Now Chronicle 340 is available at http://www.anthropoetics.ucla.edu/views/vw340.htm. Entitled “Frère Jacques,” it elaborates on the anthropological content of a recently published text by Jacques Derrida that touches on the question of minimal faith.

-eric gans

For a Jew-Crusader Alliance

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By adam, on December 20th, 2006 |

In his just published Chronicle, “Originary Demography” (http://www.anthropoetics.ucla.edu/views/vw339.htm), Eric Gans concludes that the aging, demographically suicidal cultures of Western Europe

can renew themselves rather than (as Steyn predicts) breaking down in ethno-religious strife and/or giving way by mid-century to a second Muslim conquest: demographic recovery through the revival of European Christianity. This is not [...]

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Post-9/11 Epistemology

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By adam, on December 17th, 2006 |

A very thoughtful discussion of scapegoating and reality-avoidance in today’s world.

http://www.hoover.org/publications/policyreview/4884201.html

No enemies on the Left

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By gans, on December 3rd, 2006 |

Although not all academics are radical leftists, all radical leftists are academics, in the sense that they are accepted, and often feted, by the academy. I have long been struck by the extreme political views of many of the most successful academicians, views that, far from acting as a handicap, are a factor in [...]

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