Friday, April 19, 2013

Did I mislabel this blog?

I have let this blog alone for quite a while, but I often think about the subject.
It seems to me that the title of the blog could have been better adapted to the contents that I have put in and will probably put in, namely it's about understanding technical subjects like computing, mathematics, physics and chemistry rather than understanding say the  Chinese philosophy of the 13th century or understanding French philosophers after World War 2. There are common features of course to all subject but I'm not competent enough to discuss these much.
But while I'm on the subject let me mention the shock I had when I came to France, picked up a book by Gilles Deleuze and tried to understand what he was saying. Being used to discussion from English analytical philosophers I was very put off by the French philosopher's style. Lots of anglophones would agree, coming from a world where they had read someone like say Nozick.

If I wanted to read such a French philosopher I would need a strategy, adapted to someone from my culture.
I would have to have been told how the French typically organise their discourse, which is often different to what anglos are used to. And there are the individual words of course, but that is not sufficient.



No comments:

Post a Comment