{"id":712,"date":"2005-02-02T04:20:53","date_gmt":"2005-02-02T04:20:53","guid":{"rendered":"0"},"modified":"2010-11-11T19:04:26","modified_gmt":"2010-11-11T19:04:26","slug":"henry_brighouse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/?p=712","title":{"rendered":"Henry Brighouse<\/strike> Farrell Doesn’t Believe in Bad Philosophy. I Do."},"content":{"rendered":"

Over at Crooked Timber<\/a>, Henry is being silly again…<\/p>\n

He takes off from a review of a new book by Robert Conquest – The Dragons of Expectation, and a quote from the introduction:<\/p>\n

“And we are told that a number of members of the Middle Eastern terror groups had originally been in the local communist movements – The members of [the Real IRA and the Shining Path], as with those in Italy or, for example, the Naxalites in India, were almost entirely recruited from student elements who had accepted the abstractions of fashionable academics. And the September 11 bombers were almost all comfortably off young men, some having been to Western universities and there adopted the extremely anti-Western mind-set.”<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

…and then Henry takes off into outrage:<\/p>\n

[Conquest] makes some rather outrageous claims in the course of a general attack on leftist academics and internationalists. I haven’t read the book yet (I’m trying to get my hands on a copy),1 but if the reviewer is quoting him accurately, Conquest argues that a fair portion of the blame for September 11 can be laid at the feet of left-leaning professors.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

…<\/p>\n

But if he’s seriously trying to claim, on the basis of no apparent evidence, that leftwing professors in Western universities shoulder some of the blame for September 11, he should be deeply ashamed of himself. It’s a vicious, disgraceful slur, and it’s every bit as unacceptable as the claim that the West and the US had September 11 coming to them. Still, I don’t think that Reynolds or any of his cronies will be following their advice to the left and disassociating themselves from Conquest (indeed, judging by Reynolds’ dishonest and hate-filled post, I wouldn’t be surprised if he agrees with Conquest’s claims).<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Well, it’s funny; I agree with some of Conquest’s claims, and think there is a significant body of evidence to support them.<\/p>\n

Modern academic leftism stems has deep roots in history; from Heiddeger to Adorno & Lyotard. Those roots are shared with the modern Islamist movement.<\/p>\n

Ali Shari’at, the Paris-trained Shiite theorist who was one of the leading thinkers of the Iranian Islamic revolution, translated Fanon and Sartre.<\/p>\n

Fanon’s ‘Wretched of the Earth,’ published in 1961 predated Qutb’s ‘Signposts on the Road,’ published in 1964, and what I have read about the latter certainly suggest connections to the former.<\/p>\n

Now I’m going to be bumming heavily if Henry finds this hate-filled; it isn’t. But I do say, and have said that the modern left has intellectual ties (what I call Bad Philosophy<\/a>) to modern terrorist movements. That’s an arguable hypothesis. <\/p>\n

Henry can sputter all he wants, but that’s not argument.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Over at Crooked Timber, Henry is being silly again… He takes off from a review of a new book by Robert Conquest – The Dragons of Expectation, and a quote from the introduction: “And we are told that a number of members of the Middle Eastern terror groups had originally been in the local communist […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/712"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/712\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}