Agreed. I think Badiou is an spectacular philosopher. But his French alliegances make his appreciation for the analytic school detestably barren. Sellars, Quine, Russell, Kripke, Brandom, Davidson, Putnam, Rorty, McDowell, Lewis are all extraordinary figures, on a par with Satre, Ponty, Althusser, Lyotard, Deleuze, Derrida and others. Particularly Sellars, Russell, Quine and Kripke, I think, are some of the best philosophers of the century (I rank Sellars up there with the greats).
His problem, no matter how simplistic my reduction sounds, is the main movement of (every) analytic thought, to disavow past knowledge as simple history and not able to provide us with any insights today. So not very surprisingly, your words, "old rhetoric" is very ironically fitting.
Agreed. I think Badiou is an spectacular philosopher. But his French alliegances make his appreciation for the analytic school detestably barren. Sellars, Quine, Russell, Kripke, Brandom, Davidson, Putnam, Rorty, McDowell, Lewis are all extraordinary figures, on a par with Satre, Ponty, Althusser, Lyotard, Deleuze, Derrida and others. Particularly Sellars, Russell, Quine and Kripke, I think, are some of the best philosophers of the century (I rank Sellars up there with the greats).
His problem, no matter how simplistic my reduction sounds, is the main movement of (every) analytic thought, to disavow past knowledge as simple history and not able to provide us with any insights today. So not very surprisingly, your words, "old rhetoric" is very ironically fitting.