Date: Fri, 26 Jun 1998 20:05:25 -0500
From: Daniel <dcorbeil-AT-students.wisc.edu>
Subject: Re: Brusseau book


I entered this conversation late. What is the title of the Jim Brusseau book
of which you are speaking? I did a search at the Amazon under the author but
nothing came up. Do you happen to know the publisher and ISBN?

Thanks,

daniel


At 15:50 6/24/98 -0800, you wrote:
>Paul Bains wrote:
>
>Thanks for the 'info.'
>
>Is there anything in the bk on the 'scholastics', other than a possible
>referral to Scotus. Or any mention of Aristotle.
>Brusseau sounds french - is it a translation.
>
>---
>
>I havent read Jim Brusseau's book yet - been meaning to but too much else
>going on - but I thought I should pass along that he is amerikun and got
>his phd at Penn State (where I got my master's), studying with Al Lingis
>(who I hope everyone here has read) and Stanley Rosen (a Platonist with
>strong ties to Strauss and Kojeve and strong interests in Nietzsche and
>Hegel). I believe the dust jacket says that Brusseau teaches philosophy in
>Mexico City now. And Jim is indeed a 'nice' guy, in the most perverse sense
>of that word!
>
>I mention all this to possibly give some insight into Brusseau's broaching
>of the issue of ignoring Hegel vs. getting entangled in the endless
>dialectic. There's nothing an Hegelian hates worse than being ignored! Once
>you engage them, they have a dialectical reversal waiting for anything you
>can throw at them - a painful, mind-numbing debate which the Hegelian
>almost always wins through sheer boredom. Hence my strong admiration of
>Deleuze and Guattari's willfull back-turning on Hegel, Heidegger and
>others. But it remains a difficult issue.
>
>Finally a tip for finding the latest books on Deleuze or whomever:
>
>Go to http://www.amazon.com and do a search for Deleuze, Gilles or
>Guattari, Felix and it will show you 50-100 books that they have available,
>and even books that are not yet out but the publishers' have already set a
>publication date in the next 6 months.
>
>This is how I first heard of Brusseau's book.
>
>otto
>
>


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