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This guy... He is such a charismatically tricky bastard. He is so over the top good at his job, the genuine epoch-making big-deal so far as brainiacs go... And then he slips into some Zarathustra shit about the heroic philosophizing future-man and you're like "oh, this is how that shit went down in the 30's..." I kinda wish I wasn't the kind of person who's fascinated by all this, but there you go.

The lineup in this collection seems to be confirming that with the possible exception of the American Pragmatists, the English-speaking world has been totally out of the game as far as philosophizing (and not just the logic-chopping analytic lunatics either, the whole gaggle) for well north of a century. Maybe more? I am really living on the North American Death Star over here. Send help.

Just digging into the chapter on Bergson, who I appreciate more and more as someone who will tell you many of the same hopeful things as Husserl and Heidegger, but in a way you can actually grasp without having a semi-mystical experience in the process.