[lbo-talk] bada bing bada-badiou

[Miles Jackson]

shag carpet bomb wrote:
>
> also, can't help but think of simmel who sauntered in and out of 
> seeming paradoxes such as "he who wholly loves cannot wholly love."
>
> and then i'm left wondering why the entire history of american 
> metaphysics was just left out: santayana, james, dewey, whitehead, 
> justus buchler.
>
> buchler wrote _Metaphysics of Natural Complexes_ dealing with this 
> issue of one and many. Nevermind Whitehead.
>
> They apparently don't exist for Badiou. which, I guess, well... if you 
> are going to say that Heidegger is the last metaphysician... yeah yeah 
> yeah. he means 'widely' known I suppose.
>
> whine whine whine.

Carrol's made this point before: you can't read everything.  It wouldn't 
surprise me at all if Badiou hasn't read Buchler or Santayana or James.  
It is a bit frustrating, though, to see people grappling with problems 
in their own academic silo when they could learn a lot from insanely 
intelligent people who live in a different academic silo.  (My favorite 
example: Butler's main points in Gender Trouble are an ornate 
restatement of the sociological work of people like Goffman and 
Garfinkel decades earlier.)

Miles