[lbo-talk] Re: Butler on Derrida

[Luke Weiger]

Maybe it would be helpful to think of it this way: you wouldn't ask a
physicist about human nature (at least you wouldn't on the basis of his
knowledge of physics), even though we're all made of particles that obey
physical laws.

-- Luke

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From: "andie nachgeborenen" <andie_nachgeborenen at yahoo.com>
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Sent: Friday, October 29, 2004 6:15 PM
Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] Re: Butler on Derrida


>
> I am not sure the question of rule-following behavior
> posed at the level of abstraction that W discusses it
> really has anything to offer discussiuon of the
> holocaust or the Russian revolution, etc. I might be
> wrong of course. jks
>
> --- uvj at vsnl.com wrote:
>
> > andie nachgeborenen wrote:
> >
> > Wittgenstein
> > >did not provide topical commentary on
> > > anything. As far as I know he did not discuss in
> > > print:
> > > World War I (in which he was a soldier)
> > > The treaty of Versaille
> > > The inflation of the 1920s
> > > The revolutionary movements of that era and their
> > fate
> > > The rise of Nazism
> > > The Russian revolution
> > etc.
> >
> > My question was about the Wittgensteinian school and
> > its potential, if any,
> > for providing topical commentary on the issues you
> > have listed by using
> > Wittgenstein's methods and assumptions.
> >
> > > Probably I have left something out, but I tried to
> > hit
> > > the highlights so you would not have to ask. If
> > you
> > > are looking for topical commentary, he's not your
> > guy.
> > > His interest in rule-following behavior addresses
> > in
> > > part the skeptical challenge, how do we know we
> > are
> > > following a rule? Like, "add 1" or "use 'red' to
> > mean
> > > this color here." If that level of abstraction
> > does
> > > not interest you, don't read him.
> >
> > That level of abstraction would certainly interest
> > me, if it's relationship
> > to and its implications for the topics mentioned by
> > you can be indicated.
> >
> > Ulhas
> >
> >
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