Something you're not likely to see from me again soon

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

>From: Justin Schwartz (jkschw at hotmail.com)
>Date: Mon Jun 04 2001 - 11:34:44 EDT
>
>  >At 12:01 PM 6/3/01 -0400, Gordon wrote:
>  > >So maybe Heidegger should be considered as a poet _rather_than_ a
>>  >philosopher.
>  > >But in that case, Rilke would be the reason to learn German.
>  >
>  >What?s the difference? Aren't these two but exercises in imagination
>>unencumbered by experience? The main diffrence seems to be that philosphy
>>is the refuge for those who cannot write good poetry.
>>
>>wojtek
>
>And sociology is an exercise in experience unencumbered by imagination . . .
>. Hey, W., don't read philosophy if you don't like to; it's not obligatory,
>but writing off whole traditions of human inquiry as second rate versions of
>something else is sort of dumb. --jks

Well, it's a philosopher (Plato) who started the war on poetry & 
rhetoric.  Is it any wonder if poets & rhetoricians have fought back?

Yoshie