One of the great cantankerous essayists of our era, the public philosopher @jehsmith , inveighs against parenthood and fun, among other things.https://www.jehsmith.com/1/2019/11/against-public-philosophy.html …
... incentive to listen more closely, not to marshal sociology in order to process the apparent foreignness of what is being said.
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I don’t spend much time around philosophers. And maybe your comments are more responding to philosophy in Europe than in the US. But here the view that contributions to public philosophy help rather than hurt one’s chances within the field sounds far off the mark.
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And listen to who more closely? Listen to you? You don’t represent a constituency. You are unique. And you aren’t marginalized, you are fantastically successful and admired.
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