Philosophers still tend to disdain, or at least to conceive as categorically different from their own speciality, the use of language deployed by bards and poets, whether from Siberia or the South Bronx. Again, this disdain leaves out the bulk of human experience. Until it is eradicated, the present talk of the ideal of inclusion will remain mere lip-service.

Justin E H Smith at Aeon. How philosophy came to disdain the wisdom of oral cultures

The Philosopher: A History in Six Types

Via *3 Quarks Daily *which pointed me to Smith’s installment of  Imaginary Tribes entitled, The Crispy and the Crunchy one of my favorite pieces on The Internet.

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