[lbo-talk] Can non-Europeans think? What happens with thinkers who operate outside the European philosophical 'pedigree'?

[Wojtek S]

Wrong question.  Everyone can think or to quote the Old Man, "write
poetry in the evening."  The right question is can non-Europeans make
a decent living by thinking?  On this side of the pond, one cannot
just think, but to quote John Kenneth Galbraith, to provide the needed
conclusions to those in a position to pay for them.  Free thinking is
incompatible with neoliberalism - only thinking in the service of
profits count.

Wojtek

On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 8:37 AM, c b <cb31450 at gmail.com> wrote:
> http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2013/01/2013114142638797542.html
>
> Can non-Europeans think? What happens with thinkers who operate
> outside the European philosophical 'pedigree'?
>
>
>
> The works of French philosopher Michel Foucault is usually at the
> forefront of Eurocentric philosophy [AFP]
> In a lovely little panegyric for the distinguished European
> philosopher Slavoj Zizek, published recently on Al Jazeera, we read:
>
> There are many important and active philosophers today: Judith Butler
> in the United States, Simon Critchley in England, Victoria Camps in
> Spain, Jean-Luc Nancy in France, Chantal Mouffe in Belgium, Gianni
> Vattimo in Italy, Peter Sloterdijk in Germany and in Slovenia, Slavoj
> Zizek, not to mention others working in Brazil, Australia and China.
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Wojtek

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