{"id":1259,"date":"2010-05-07T11:20:13","date_gmt":"2010-05-07T16:20:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/2010\/05\/07\/rematch-sunday\/"},"modified":"2010-05-07T11:20:13","modified_gmt":"2010-05-07T16:20:13","slug":"rematch-sunday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/2010\/05\/07\/rematch-sunday\/","title":{"rendered":"rematch Sunday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m sorry to have to miss this weekend&#8217;s philosophers&#8217; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.philosophersfootball.com\/\">rematch<\/a>. But if the Monty Python crew is the British answer to French existentialism, as Julian Baggini claims in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/theguardian\/2010\/apr\/28\/monty-python-philosophers-football-match\">The Guardian<\/a>, how about having the Brits (Bentham, Russell, Hume, Adam Smith, et al) take on the French (Sartre, Merleau-Ponty, Derrida, Deleuze, de Beauvoir &#8211; a female first for philosophers&#8217; football?)&#8230; Goals scored notwithstanding, the French would certainly outstyle their off-continent rivals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m sorry to have to miss this weekend&#8217;s philosophers&#8217; rematch. But if the Monty Python crew is the British answer to French existentialism, as Julian Baggini claims in The Guardian, how about having the Brits (Bentham, Russell, Hume, Adam Smith, et al) take on the French (Sartre, Merleau-Ponty, Derrida, Deleuze, de Beauvoir &#8211; a female [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":99,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[203],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academe"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4IC4a-kj","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4103,"url":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/2011\/05\/23\/thinking-with-whitehead\/","url_meta":{"origin":1259,"position":0},"title":"Thinking with Whitehead","author":"Adrian J Ivakhiv","date":"May 23, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Isabelle Stengers's Thinking With Whitehead arrived in the mail today. 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