Justin wrote: "Btw, I am, at by my lights, a socialist, not a libertarian or right winger -- a sort of Marxian Hayekian. Who says the unity of opposites is a Hegelian fraud?" Let's here it for contradiction!  Justin might add Schumpeter to his Marxian thoughts.  As for me I think that Thucydides, Machiavelli, Adam Smith, Voltaire, Hume, Kant, Darwin, Marx, Kropotkin, Gramsci, Bertrand Russell, Althusser, Coase,  Alfred D. Chandler (author of "Visible Hand"), Stephen J. Gould, E.O . Wilson, Chomsky, Galen Strawson, and evolutionary psychology, are all mostly correct.  Combine them all.  They are all part of my tradition.  But my contradictions do not at all match those of the Italian-Philosopher-politician Gianni Vattimo.  (Here is his website for those who read Italian <a href="http://www.giannivattimo.it/">http://www.giannivattimo.it/</a> ) Gianni is a Gay, Catholic, member of the Party of Italian Communists.  Yes, a Gay-Catholic-Communist member of the European Parliament and occasional professor in the U.S. But listen up you Heideggerians.  Vattimo is also a leading scholar of Neitzsche, Heidegger and Derrida, a collaborator with Richard Rorty, a former student of Karl Lowith and Gadamer and a good friend of Umberto Eco.  So two cheers for Gianni Vattimo, the Italian-Gay-Catholic-Communist-Heideggerian..... My people, my people! Earlier to someone I wrote "But the philosophy a person chooses (and develops) means something.  I would not expect a follower of Ayn Rand to support the TWU strikers or "free" day care for all, for instance.  In general the hardened Heideggerians (the lonely Lacanians? diddling Derridians?) tend toward the same lack of response. "  Perhaps Gianni is a counter-example.  Jerry Monaco "Doug Henwood Wrote <div style="direction: ltr;">Jerry Monaco wrote: >If Chris Doss wants to send some Heidegger emails to me so I can >post them under my 3 post quota with his signature on the bottom I >will certainly do this favor for him. </div><div style="color: rgb(102, 51, 255);" class="ea"> Uh, no. Streng verboten.-" </div>And I will take one "Grand Illusion" allusion to go, please.  JM -- Jerry Monaco's Philosophy, Politics, Culture Weblog is Shandean Postscripts to Politics, Philosophy, and Culture <a href="http://monacojerry.livejournal.com/" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">http://monacojerry.livejournal.com/</a> His fiction, poetry, weblog is Hopeful Monsters: Fiction, Poetry, Memories <a href="http://www.livejournal.com/users/jerrymonaco/" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)"> http://www.livejournal.com/users/jerrymonaco/</a> Notes, Quotes, Images - From some of my reading and browsing <a href="http://www.livejournal.com/community/jerry_quotes/" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)"> http://www.livejournal.com/community/jerry_quotes/ </a>