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Letters
Letters
Feeling Philosophical? • High Class Underworld • Defending Derrida • More Arguments About God • Impinging on Realities • Philosophical Speculations
Feeling Philosophical?
Dear Editor: Mikhail Epstein’s article ‘Philosophical Feelings’ in Issue 101 touches a central concern of mine, namely how we can defend philosophy from a complete takeover by the analytic factions who, out of a self-conscious guilt and inferiority complex in the face of science, would prefer to reduce it to little more than lip service to science. How can we defend its more poetic aspects, which define and distinguish it as a discipline and, in my opinion, provide its reason to be? Epstein’s article typifies Philosophy Now’s project and it’s openness to more continental approaches.
Bertrand Russell rightly recognized that philosophy lies in that no-man’s land between science and theology. But we live in a different situation and time than Russell did. Therefore, I would revise his statement to, “Philosophy lies in that no-man’s land between science and literature.
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