What happens when we read Heidegger and Adam Smith together on the motif of invisible hands?
I tried my hand at it to find out.
whatiscalledthinking.substack.com/p/invisible-ha…
I tried my hand at it to find out.
whatiscalledthinking.substack.com/p/invisible-ha…
The one was a Scottish classical liberal, while the latter was a German conservative. The one ascribed to what Isaiah Berlin calls negative liberty, while the latter believed in positive liberty.
Yet both thinkers founded their work on the metaphor of the hand.
Yet both thinkers founded their work on the metaphor of the hand.
Critics of classical liberalism are right to suggest that belief in markets requires a kind of faith. What they often miss is that this belief also requires a sense of tradition. Things work not because they are unbreakable, but because they are capable of being reconstructed.
Tradition is the art of making our reconstructive efforts tacit again.
The greatest sleight of hand is that we are too busy watching the trick, we don’t see ourselves watching it.
Pictured above in the photo, though (appropriately?) cut off is an image of Socrates, holding a pencil in one hand and an eraser in the other. This was one of Derrida's favorite icons for his deconstructive theories.
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