I just realized something. I've always been kinda nerdy, but I've never fit in even among my fellow nerds.
Why not? Perhaps because Dante's DIVINE COMEDY was for me what THE LORD OF THE RINGS was for the 'normal' nerd.
Hmmmmm.
John Searle has become the object of accusations of improper conduct. These accusations even have some people in the world of academic philosophy saying that instructors in that world should try to avoid teaching Searle's views. That is an odd contention, and has given rise to heated exchanges in certain corners of the blogosphere. At Leiter Reports, I encountered a comment from someone describing himself as "grad student drop out." GSDO said: " This is a side question (and not at all an attempt to answer the question BL posed): How important is John Searle's work? Are people still working on speech act theory or is that just another dead end in the history of 20th century philosophy? My impression is that his reputation is somewhat inflated from all of his speaking engagements and NYRoB reviews. The Chinese room argument is a classic, but is there much more to his work than that?" I took it upon myself to answer that on LR. But here I'll tak...
Christopher, I have read Mark Musa's translation of The Divine Comedy but never The Lord of the Rings. (I tried The Hobbit probably 40-some years ago but couldn't get into it.) Not having read The Lord of the Rings, perhaps I'm speaking from ignorance, but I think of it as popular fiction rather than canonical literature, and therefore I would not think of people who read it but not canonical literature to be nerds.
ReplyDelete:Canonical is a relative term. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8AhJty-sig
DeleteNerdy? Me too, also. I did not fit with any high school clique. The sixties were a wierd time to grow up. I probably would have faired no better, ten or twenty years later [or, is that fared, as in sea-faring?]. Anyway, I was a misfit---stranger in a strange land. Now, I get some recognition as a "moral philosopher". Google said so. Better later than nothing. Am happy with where uncredentialed knowledge has brought me. People come and go. Like architects. No worries. I do what I like to do. Some folks like it, others don't. Contextually, that is how things have always been for yours truly. I don't mind. Interests, motives and preferences, see.
ReplyDeleteAfterthoughts on Henry's remarks: I did not read Tolkien either. was having too much with Science Fiction and Fantasy. Heinlein got me hooked. Now, I peruse socio-political stuff to try and figure the World's next move(s). Have tailored some (much?) of my own brand of moral philosophy around that. Contextual reality=,roughly, interests, motives and preferences (IMPs).
ReplyDeleteIt is not so mysterious if you don't overthink it.
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