Ungated PDF at: www.theobeers.com/fasolt-hegel...

You can find other testimony in support, including the position of the Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation, here: www.cga.ct.gov/aspx/CGADisp...

My reconstruction of the treaty is attached. 2/3

Snap!

“I met a traveller from an antique land.” I’m not sure I would insist on better, but I liked the points of contact.

This is, it seems to me, a more fruitful way to make use of Wittgenstein in social & political theory than to see him as a mere methodological alibi for contending idealist accounts focused on pinning down what historical theorists meant by what they said. /end

Both—abstruse theorist and dogmatic activist—are, to borrow Wittgenstein's felicitous metaphors, idling, failing to meet the rough ground, gone on holiday. Like Weber and Marx before him, Hall is attuned to the emptiness of both one-sided idealism and a one-sided materialism. 4/5

What is crucial for Hall is that the error is mutual; the theorist who imagines getting a grip on the world apart from any concern with practice is mirrored by the activist who thinks that they already have all of the answers that they need in the orthodox authorities. 3/5

If for Wittgenstein philosophers went astray when they imagined that they could prise meaning apart from use, Hall makes a similar case for the error—political and intellectual—of trying to prise theory from practice. 2/5

It is disgraceful.

Have heard great things about it. Hope to make it before it closes.

It’s all just so staggeringly monstrous.