Episode from the Australian Broadcasting Company Program "The Philosopher's Zone"
The anti-philosophers
One of the curious things about the history of philosophy is that it periodically throws up thinkers who throw into question the whole business of… doing philosophy. Some are avowed anti-philosophers, e.g. Diogenes and Nietzsche. Some have the mantle of anti-philosophy thrust upon them, e.g. Jacques Derrida, the genial Frenchman whose engagement with canonical thinkers is close and respectful, and yet whose work has been denounced as a kind of heretical nihilism. How should we situate these paradoxical figures? Is it possible to be a philosopher if you're arguing that philosophy is an impossible project?
https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/philosopherszone/the-anti-philosophers/10218071028 minute program.
I haven't listened to it yet. I went to their website to post another topic here.
