Monday, April 12, 2010

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A draft response

I try to express my concern with regard to intervention Fofi below. It will not be easy, 'cause I have an ambivalent attitude to this article: it is a very clever article, which also shares its basic inspiration and the conclusion ("the Italian left has to think for themselves), but I think the dialogue (and critical) with a "philosophy of history" which does not coincide with America. It is part of a critical (matrix-Jewish aristocrat-European) as representatives of Americanism that sees Mann-Heidegger-Adorno, Baudrillard, Sontag (and others), that America and 'fundamentally the source of all (and everyone) the evils of modernity ': nihilism, the culture industry, the technology (such as neglect of) the Disneyfication of the story, neo-liberalism, etc.. etc.. It may 'well be that this philosophy of history has proved successful and as a global hegemon (the good - or bad - of the history and philosophy' that are not falsifiable in the Popperian sense: they are intuitions of the world, and as such fleeing from empirical testing). The fact is that it does not match, or do not run out of America. Just one example and out. See the average American only as a "consumer" bulimic and selfish, all intent on stuffing myself with burgers and advertising ', totally ignores the and that 'reality' and social history of a country that has always known (and knows) a practice of association and solidarity 'intense at all levels, from the beginning, as Tocqueville (in fact, that unlike all the intellectuals cited Signoroni above was basically an ethnographer) had caught. United States (especially in the Midwest), as noted by Robert Bellah, are one of the countries where the practice and the community movement and community has had an intense 'unprecedented in the Western world, marrying in a paradoxical individualism more 'anarchist and libertarian (that possession and consumption). This, in part, also recognizes Fofi, when he speaks of our "debt of gratitude to minorities Ethical Use. "The fact is that America is deep, popular, daily, stands out in this and much more from the cliche 'that European intellectuals generally attribute to it. It can' be caught by the look more 'modest' ethnographer that the ambitious of the great philosopher or intellectual, always at the bottom of the aristocratic and conservative. As he watched the late Pierre Bourdieu, "the general views are general visions.

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