[lbo-talk] BHL caught with pants down

Eubulides paraconsistent at comcast.net
Wed Feb 10 05:52:25 PST 2010


On 10-02-09 09:22 PM, Joanne Landy wrote:
> I assume you know this....


> In framing his case, Lévy ­ BHL to the Parisian cognoscenti ­ drew on
> the writings of the little-known 20th century thinker Jean-Baptiste
> Botul ­ author of The Sex Life of Immanuel Kant , and a man Lévy has
> cited in lectures.
>
> The problem? Botul never existed. He was invented by a journalist from
> the satirical newspaper Le Canard Enchaîné 10 years ago as an
> elaborate joke. And since the hoax was revealed, BHL has become a
> laughing stock.

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Robin Schott, however, did write a great book on the erotophobic dimensions of Kant's theory of knowledge:

http://bit.ly/cmjqND



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