tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5687347459208158501.post7141463609823462156..comments2024-03-29T03:19:09.227-04:00Comments on The Philosopher's Stone: MEMOIRS VOLUME TWO THIRD INSTALLMENTRobert Paul Wolffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11970360952872431856noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5687347459208158501.post-59447277912056684782015-07-27T18:10:41.824-04:002015-07-27T18:10:41.824-04:00A small point, perhaps, but Leo Strauss never held...A small point, perhaps, but Leo Strauss never held an appointment at the Committee on Social Thought.<br />See Catherine & Michael Zuckert's, The Truth About Leo Strauss, p. 27.hmihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00383154981371767603noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5687347459208158501.post-50016849989253463902010-05-05T16:57:14.184-04:002010-05-05T16:57:14.184-04:00I, too, am enjoying your memoirs. I wonder if you ...I, too, am enjoying your memoirs. I wonder if you might say something about the nature of analytic philosophy, and the "new era" it had ushered in, as you perceived it at the time. I see that in another post (Apr. 18, 2010) you describe a conversation (argument?) with Marcuse in which analytic philosophy is associated with clarity. But is there more that you can say about your perception of analytic philosophy at the time? For instance, did you take it to be committed to linguistic analysis, or conceptual analysis, or something else, and did you take particular methods to be central to the kind of clarity aimed at (e.g., the use of symbolic logic, etc.)? Were the social and institutional issues related to the analytic movement of equal significance with the meta-philosophical or methodological issues (e.g., old-guard vs. new-guard, confining custom vs. liberating novelty, etc.). This is of historical interest to me.Aaron Prestonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07888962702748335740noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5687347459208158501.post-31110972810975880372010-04-19T05:59:05.926-04:002010-04-19T05:59:05.926-04:00M, I have a number of stories about Jack. A few c...M, I have a number of stories about Jack. A few can be found in Volume One, Chapter Six, but there are others that will come when I reach that point in my Memoirs. Stay tuned.Robert Paul Wolffhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11970360952872431856noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5687347459208158501.post-5817420751815828622010-04-19T00:57:13.189-04:002010-04-19T00:57:13.189-04:00I've greatly enjoyed your memoirs, and there a...I've greatly enjoyed your memoirs, and there are many lapidary, funny, and brilliant passages that I've been quoting to friends and colleagues. I'm curious, since you wrote a book on Rawls (Princeton University Press, 1977), whether you have any stories to relate about the philosopher.analyticphilosopherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10436885120241314043noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5687347459208158501.post-43297744842873798552010-04-18T18:05:00.884-04:002010-04-18T18:05:00.884-04:00Oh, God, Ryan, you are of course right. I plead a...Oh, God, Ryan, you are of course right. I plead age! :)Robert Paul Wolffhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11970360952872431856noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5687347459208158501.post-4859070995380939292010-04-18T16:48:18.554-04:002010-04-18T16:48:18.554-04:00Not to be an ass, but I believe you mean Virginia ...Not to be an ass, but I believe you mean Virginia Woolf, not Virginia Wolfe.<br /><br />Otherwise, this was a fantastic read.Ryan Dischingerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01976354205719146878noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5687347459208158501.post-62122949994907948462010-04-18T09:09:16.191-04:002010-04-18T09:09:16.191-04:00I will be writing about the transition from one wa...I will be writing about the transition from one way of being to another when I get to my analysis during my Columbia years. I was being a bit tongue in cheek -- I am still pretty ferocious at times. But it was becoming a father that changed me. More of that later on.Robert Paul Wolffhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11970360952872431856noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5687347459208158501.post-10940013966824724712010-04-18T08:28:07.828-04:002010-04-18T08:28:07.828-04:00The insularity you describe is pretty much standar...The insularity you describe is pretty much standard issue wherever I've been. It is better, though, at universities that don't think of themselves as elite - that self-understanding forces people to realise that there is a world outside of the latest gnomic pronouncements of your head of department.<br /><br />And out of interest: how dyou view your younger fiery self from your current pussycat perspective? Are you glad you were the way you were, or does it now strike you as a waste of energy? The sound of philosophical antlers clashing is pretty familiar to me, and I think it's mostly a distraction from the stuff that makes doing philosophy interesting.Pranayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02401056548216759729noreply@blogger.com