A philosophical thought is not supposed to be impervious to all criticism; this is the error Whitehead describes of turning philosophy into geometry, and it is useful primarily as a way of gaining short-term triumphs in personal arguments that no one else cares (or even knows) about anyway. A good philosophical thought will always be subject to criticisms (as Heidegger__ or Whitehead__ best insights all are) but they are of such elegance and depth that they change the terms of debate, and function as a sort of __bligatory passage point_ (Latour__ term) in the discussions that follow.Or in other words, the reason Being and Time is still such a classic, with hundreds of thousands or millions of readers almost a century later, is not because Heidegger made __ewer mistakes_ than others of his generation. Mistakes need to be cleaned up, but that is not the primary engine of personal or collective intellectual progress.
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Graham Harman
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Towards Speculative Realism: Essays and Lectures
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