Academic Disciplines Are Subject To Being Overtaken

Complaints About The Social Irresponsibility Of The Intellectual Typically Concern The Intellectual's Tendency To Marginalize Herself, To Move Out From One Community By Interior Identification Of Herself With Some Other Community - For Example, Another Country Or Historical Period... It Is Not Clear That Those Who Thus Marginalize Themselves Can Be Criticized For Social Irresponsibility. One Cannot Be Irresponsible Toward A Community Of Which One Does Not Think Of Oneself As A Member. Otherwise Runaway Slaves And Tunnelers Under The Berlin Wall Would Be Irresponsible.

What Counts As Rational Argumentation Is As Historically Determined And As Context-dependent, As What Counts As Good French.

Philosophy Makes Progress Not By Becoming More Rigorous But By Becoming More Imaginative.

There Is Nothing Deep Down Inside Us Except What We Have Put There Ourselves.

Academic Disciplines Are Subject To Being Overtaken By Attacks Of "knowingness"- A State Of Mind And Soul That Prevents Shudders Of Awe And Makes One Immune To Enthusiasm.