I do not find anything ironic much less self-contradictory in a philosophical position that maintains the impossibility of philosophy. Ludwig Wittgenstein provided one rationale for the use of philosophy for its ultimate self-eradication. Similarly, it is not prima facie absurd to offer a political argument for the illegitimacy of the state, and hence for the illegitimacy of political doctrines as they are usually understood, that is, assuming the state’s legitimacy.
