Submitted by Matthew on Mon, 10/10/2011 - 17:40
Professor Simon Critchley recently began to edit an "opinion" column on the New York Times entitled "The Stone", with the inaugural essay, "What is a Philosopher?", check it out for yourself, "The Stone" will be added to the Blogroll on this site, and I imagine that I will have further posts regarding this venture.
The return to this question, "what is a philosopher" today, in the most established News Paper in the United States warrants attention. For today, philosophy is again under assault, it has become a "threat". If the recent proceedings at the University of Middlesex (perhaps the strongest philosophical institute in Critchley's native UK) are any indication, philosophy is under attack from it's presumptive heir, the University.
