Hobsbawm Finkielkraut Chomsky Hitchens (infuriates the hell out of me, but is a commmate pub int.) Russell Jacoby (wrote him in.)
I considered writing in Henwood, too, but he's been snarky of late, so fuck him. Next time, Doug.
Habermas didn't make the cut. He gets honorable mention.
Mike Hirsch -----Original Message----- From: ravi <listmail at kreise.org> Sent: Oct 2, 2005 10:47 PM To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] Poll of Top 5 Public Intellectuals! Vote For Chomsky!
At around 2/10/05 2:41 am, andie nachgeborenen wrote:
> I voted for
>
> Chomsky
> Armartya Sen
> Richard Posner
> Eric Hobsbawm
> Jean Baudriallard
>
chomsky sen singer (had to do that ;-)) krugman dyson
to be honest, i think dawkins, wilson, weinberg are good choices, but i disagree with their attitudes, so no vote ;-).
> A sort of whitish male and Eurocentric list, but I
> didn't know a lot of the third world people, my
> ignorance, and I didn't think the women listed (not
> many) were in the league of these writers. Martha
> NUssbaum's impressive, but she's a notch down from any
> of my choices. Camille Paglia?! Give me a break.
nussbaum: two notches, IMHO. funny ones: friedman of course. wolfowitz?! and then: salman rushdie?? hitchens?
>
> My wild card I used on Mike Davis.
>
wild card: roger penrose.
michael perelman was missing too! and georg gadamer! lynn margulis...
> Habermas and Rorty probably belong on the list, shows
> ...
>
others have probably already pointed it out, but both these men *are* on the list.
--ravi
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