Ptolemy's Amazon review of John Searle's "Philosophy in a New Century"

May 10, 2009:

At last, sanity from Berkeley,

May 10, 2009

By	Themistocles G. Michos "Themis" (San Francisco, CA USA) - See all my reviews

The author and I are about the same age. After years of strong immersion in contemporary art and tentative entry into Continental philosophical "thought," to be kind five percent of the latter being, after all, incisive and illuminating, I can turn to John Searle for clarity, reasoned argument, coherency and a feeling that after roiling in the surf there is a floor out there somewhere. I come away from each essay with a warm and secure feeling that I rarely find in "post-modern" philosophical writing, which consists of tired invocation or repetition of the times, long past, when it was hip to be protesting that the common people aren't getting a break or that meaningful communication is impossible. Would all those old, gray-haired confused obfuscators of Marx and Nietzsche and their frazzled ponytails just go away?