Very nice review by Andrew Milne of Nikhil Krishnan's new history of philosophy at Oxford in the mid-20th century. (Spoiler alert: Milne likes Krishnan's book.)
https://theconversation.com/english-philosophers-thought-they-had-sloughed-off-the-dead-weight-of-history-but-history-suggests-otherwise-205400
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Nagel has an excellent review at the New Statesman of Nikhil Krishnan's new book on "ordinary language" philosophy, A Terribly Serious Adventure: Philosophy at Oxford 1900-60
https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/books/book-of-the-day/2023/05/plain-speaking-philosophers
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Finally, Nat continues:

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Also, he argued against historian C.B. Macpherson, that John Locke could not have been basing his writing on capitalism because it had not yet codified into an available language. (But would soon do so.) I studied with Pocock but disagreed with him about Macpherson.

Anyway, you can see how that fits into "Babel 17." BTW, In those days no one would bring up SF in a grad class.

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Nat:

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His argument for a linguistic empiricism contradicted political theorist Leo Strauss's combination of ahistoricism & conspiracy theory that, sadly, most of the current Supreme Court justices pretend to base their decisions on.

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Nat:

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In the 1970s & 1980s the historian J.G.A. Pocock introduced a concept he called "available languges," based on such ideas as Wittgenstein's "family resemblance," J.L. Austin's "speech acts, & Thomas Kuhn's "paradigms." The idea was that at any given moment folks could only make political arguments given the concepts/languages available to them.

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by commenting on the possibility of a Deleuzian linguistics degree I am in fact presupposing a set of order-words which open up the semantic possibilities of the new, a kind imperative Gestell. No problem, no need to thank me, I give this to you for free

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