Tuesday, February 23, 2010

Saul Ascher and the publisher

There is no article on Saul Ascher at en.wikipedia.org (it is now suggested that we translate German articles on German authors - a curious idea, naively encyclopaedist and pedestrian.)

Not surprisingly, there is likewise no article on André Thiele.

My first inclination was to add an article first at the c2.com wiki or some other web nexus.

Ascher: often remembered for his attack on the public antisemitism of Fichte.

A curious lacune at the internet encyclo of philosophy article on Ricoeur: prisoner of war, croix de guerre, but no mention of Ge. Gusdorf and the known pamphlets.  Had Sartre written such articles while a prisoner it would be headlines in the Review of Books.  But he was a writer: we are talking about the reputation of a philosopher, sometime guest at U. of Toronto and Chicago.  Would this not be another "tension" in his work fit for some "archeology"?  But the encyclo is "peer-reviewed" - which is not all that makes scientific bulletins reputable.

The readers of both Derrida and Searle ignored Gusdorf (who went into brief exile in '68.)

Also on Ricoeur: phillweb

On the foibles of encyclopedia: French Wikipedia on the French Empire under a new name post-1945: Union_française in which article there is not even a mention of Vietnam.  One footfold in the anglo-english wp: Leclerc on the topic of war and negotiate in a France where so many communists - for all their folly - had survived resistance betrayals.

For Michel Dufrenne, see Mikel Dufrenne

Footnote: Napoleon reinstated the legality of slavery in the French possessions (abolished again in 1848)

Note for Veza Canetti: Ho (Nguyễn Sinh Cung) and the Chinese Magd, Tăng Tuyết Minh.

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