RE: [xmca] Wittgenstein

[Tony Whitson <twhitson@UDel.Edu>]

On Tue, 19 Jul 2011, Balzano, Gerald wrote:
> [Unrelatedly: don't think some of us failed to notice your rather 
dismissive remarks about Wittgenstein in a note to Anna Sfard in the 
'kitchen-sink/concepts' discussion of three months ago ...
> Jerry

I for one did notice that (or maybe a similar post from Andy, which I 
remember as saying something like 'other than a few interesting 
observations on this and that [I think one may have been 'meaning,' so 
these were not trivial], I've haven't found much in LW that has engaged 
me.'

I don't see anything wrong with that. Is the presumption that any serious 
intellectual is expected to be interested in any and every thinker, 
indiscriminately (or, promiscuously)?

I remember Andy's post because it's pretty much in line with what I would 
say myself about LW.

Maybe hermeneutical charity here calls for taking the writer seriously: LW 
said about his own work that it was therapy for those who had become 
ensnared in the pathologies of the philosophical tradition he was writing 
against. So maybe people who have not been so afflicted, may have no need 
for (or interest in) this therapy?

I do recognize that many people feel that LW has done a lot for them. I 
genuinely respect him for that; but I could say that much even for the 
less estimable Richard Rorty (just to gratuitously piss off a few more 
folks, perhaps).
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