Yesterday I had the misfortune of learning of Taminiaux and the Wallon movement (as if they were somehow oppressed or wronged - a frequent view of the Wallons among Quebeckers in the 80's.)
The political positions of Searle and Ricoeur in 1968: who could be further apart? (see his interviews with Marcel in that year); Hilary Putnam - rather extreme - but not as consistently so as Chomsky.
The great contrast: Bernard Bolzano. A century ahead of his time.
Today re-reading the 1930-31 "Geistige Situation" of Jaspers - without acess to a pre-1946 edition. But it has not been so very sanitized: very sobering reading - another radical conservative - and the mocking of the likes of Cassirer in which he indulged with Heidegger.
In 1968 the Protestant philosopher Ricoeur uses a military metaphor - the advancing frontlines - to introduce the interviews with the Catholic Marcel. Ricoeur: a real fool, no matter how revered for his balancing acts - all performed on a more a hawser than a cable - and over a rather shallow pit.
Latest moment to gag: Denys Turner on the "Atheism Tapes" invoking Heidegger without mention but as the ultimate ground for religious faith. Jonathon Miller chooses to be polite and almost deferential to the buffoon - or even in 2003 too ignorant to object - (that interview was suppressed in the PBS broadcast.)
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