Footnotes to Plato from the foothills of the Superstition Mountains

What Blanshard Might Have Said to Derrida

A correspondent reminds me that today is Brand Blanshard's birthday.  Born on 27 August 1892, he died on 19 November 1987.  Here is a line from Blanshard's On Philosophical Style, Indiana University Press, 1967, pp. 52-53:

Persistently obscure writers will usually be found to be defective human beings.

The entire essay is available online here.


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