{"id":9130,"date":"2012-12-19T11:54:24","date_gmt":"2012-12-19T11:54:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2012\/12\/19\/neglected-philosophers\/"},"modified":"2012-12-19T11:54:24","modified_gmt":"2012-12-19T11:54:24","slug":"neglected-philosophers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2012\/12\/19\/neglected-philosophers\/","title":{"rendered":"Neglected Philosophers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia;\">It is unfortunate that a philosopher like Heidegger receives a vast amount of attention, and indeed more than he deserves, while a philosopher such as <a href=\"http:\/\/secure.pdcnet.org\/philhist\/content\/philhist_1990_23_1_0046_0046\" target=\"_self\">Wolfgang Cramer<\/a> is scarcely read at all. I have German correspondents who have first heard of Cramer from me, an American. I admit to being part of the problem: I have published half a dozen articles on Heidegger, but not one on Cramer, or on Maurice Blondel, or on Constantin Brunner, or on Brand Blanshard. <\/p>\n<p>Jacques Derrida is another philosopher who has received an excess of attention. (Because he out-Heidegger&#39;s Heidegger?)&#0160; Why read him when you can read Blondel or Blanshard? Just because he has made a big splash and people are talking about him? Are you a philosopher or a <em>fashionista<\/em>?&#0160; <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia;\">Form your own opinion. Try this. Set a volume of Derrida side by side with a volume of Blanshard. Read a few pages back and forth. Then ask who you are more likely to learn something from. But being as perverse as we are, we often prefer the far-out, novel and radical, even when&#0160; incoherent, to the boringly solid and sensible.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia;\">Our aim ought to be the true, not the new.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is unfortunate that a philosopher like Heidegger receives a vast amount of attention, and indeed more than he deserves, while a philosopher such as Wolfgang Cramer is scarcely read at all. I have German correspondents who have first heard of Cramer from me, an American. I admit to being part of the problem: I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2012\/12\/19\/neglected-philosophers\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Neglected Philosophers&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[283,454],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-heidegger","category-history-of-philosophy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9130\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}