{"id":1264,"date":"2010-05-16T23:31:53","date_gmt":"2010-05-17T04:31:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/2010\/05\/16\/philosopher-shoot-out-at-the-times-corral\/"},"modified":"2010-05-16T23:31:53","modified_gmt":"2010-05-17T04:31:53","slug":"philosopher-shoot-out-at-the-times-corral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/2010\/05\/16\/philosopher-shoot-out-at-the-times-corral\/","title":{"rendered":"philosopher shoot-out at the Times Corral"},"content":{"rendered":"

The New York Times launches a philosophy blog<\/a> and asks Simon Critchley to moderate it. Brian Leiter goes apoplectic<\/a>.<\/p>\n

For some background on the Leiter-Critchley conflict, which turns out to be as much about the analytic-Continental divide as it is about Leiter and Critchley, see Leiter’s<\/a> account of their brawl over Derrida’s legacy (which Leiter takes to be shameful<\/a>), John Hartmann’s critique<\/a> of Leiter’s philosophy department rankings<\/a> (which aren’t just Leiter’s, but which do tend to marginalize continentals), and this discussion at An und f\u00fcr sich<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Leiter does write about Nietzsche, was right<\/a> about Carlin Romano’s hatchet job on Heidegger at the Chronicle for Higher Ed, and he’s not usually as petty as this, so the conflict is also clearly personal. I’m getting out of the way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The New York Times launches a philosophy blog and asks Simon Critchley to moderate it. Brian Leiter goes apoplectic. For some background on the Leiter-Critchley conflict, which turns out to be as much about the analytic-Continental divide as it is about Leiter and Critchley, see Leiter’s account of their brawl over Derrida’s legacy (which Leiter […]<\/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-1264","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-ko","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6494,"url":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/2013\/02\/08\/publishers-from-sublime-to-ridiculous\/","url_meta":{"origin":1264,"position":0},"title":"Publishers: from sublime to ridiculous","author":"Adrian J Ivakhiv","date":"February 8, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Brian Leiter is sharing the results of a survey on his blog to see which academic publishers are considered \"best\" in his field of philosophy. 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