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- From: brian@quake.sylmar.ca.us (Brian K. Yoder)
- Subject: Re: mindwalking buddhists, oh
- Message-ID: <C09p17.K0q@quake.sylmar.ca.us>
- Organization: Quake Public Access
- References: <1993Jan1.4280.4181@dosgate>
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- Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1993 07:34:17 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan1.4280.4181@dosgate> "stan pikul" <stan.pikul@canrem.com> writes:
- > On a somewhat more serious note, is there anybody out there in
- >the philisophical (or any other) "community" who actually takes Ayn &
- >co. seriously?
-
- Sure there are. There are quite a few professional objectivist philosophers
- (both in academia and out) out there and lots of other folks too. If there
- weren't, why would you see so many posters here?
-
- >I've been looking...and looking...and looking... for
- >good pooks on philosophy, economics, history, etc. that don't have a
- >highly existentialist/postmodern/PC bent to them. Do you have any
- >suggestions in this regards? (Besides Ayn, of course...)
-
- Well, I have read parts of George Reisman's new book on economics which
- looks like it's going to be really great. Do you get the Second Renaissance
- Books catalog?
-
- > Has any Objectivist written a concise essay on what
- >postmodernism is about? Do the postmodernists know what postmodernism
- >is about?
-
- ccording to their own theories, they can't know anything about what they
- are talking about. Gary Hull recently published a speech called something
- like "The Black Hole of Post-Modern Philosophy", which discusses the various
- problems of neo-pragmatists and deconstructionists and why they are even
- worse (if that's possible) than the analysts and existentialists.
-
- >P. S. Do you know anything about a publication called the _Intellectual
- >Activist_?
-
- Yes, it's an objectivist publication which comes out every other month.
- For a while, the publication schedule was intermittent at best, but now
- it is under new management and much improved. Do you need the address?
-
- --Brian
-
-