The burning issue with philosophers is not between philosophy and rhetorics (for a philosopher, philosophy always wins this game), but between Platonists and Aristotelians and thence, to complicate the symmetry, between Aristotelians and the Social Sciences and heidegerrians and analytic philosophy and so on... As usual, I fell on the bias across the controversies of this kind.
As you know, this propensity to situate my arguments across seeming dichotomies marks my work in every texty i wrote. Pragmatists and idealists; Marxists and esthetes; urban radicals and agrarian conservatives; psychological and sociological theorists: i would continuously take a position that fell on the bias — not simply in the middle, not finding some common ground between them in a weak compromise, but cutting across their positions, envisioning an alternative...
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