Comments on: Recognition and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance http://www.frontporchrepublic.com/2009/07/recognition-and-the-art-of-motorcycle-maintenance/ Place. Limits. Liberty. Thu, 09 Feb 2012 05:09:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: R A Sheetz http://www.frontporchrepublic.com/2009/07/recognition-and-the-art-of-motorcycle-maintenance/#comment-6728 R A Sheetz Fri, 17 Jul 2009 13:53:27 +0000 http://www.frontporchrepublic.com/?p=4524#comment-6728 The doing of phenomenology in print is not as rare as you imagine. Recur to Robert Sokolowski's Phenomenology of the Human Person. You will find much to like. The doing of phenomenology in print is not as rare as you imagine. Recur to Robert Sokolowski’s Phenomenology of the Human Person. You will find much to like.

]]> By: D.W. Sabin http://www.frontporchrepublic.com/2009/07/recognition-and-the-art-of-motorcycle-maintenance/#comment-6539 D.W. Sabin Thu, 16 Jul 2009 16:15:01 +0000 http://www.frontporchrepublic.com/?p=4524#comment-6539 With the steady leveling of the Technocratic State, one can begin to smell a bit of sepulchral decay in the term 'all men are created equal". Not on purpose of course, just as an act of sacrifice with all the best intentions. With the steady leveling of the Technocratic State, one can begin to smell a bit of sepulchral decay in the term ‘all men are created equal”. Not on purpose of course, just as an act of sacrifice with all the best intentions.

]]> By: Matt Feeney http://www.frontporchrepublic.com/2009/07/recognition-and-the-art-of-motorcycle-maintenance/#comment-6400 Matt Feeney Wed, 15 Jul 2009 21:25:32 +0000 http://www.frontporchrepublic.com/?p=4524#comment-6400 Caleb...I thank you for your kind remarks, I am happy to not-disown your post (though I don't know if I would be in violation of your property rights in claiming to "own" it), but the conversation into which I found it leading me was one I prefer to stay out of. (That's actually the case with most internet conversations I used to follow very closely - the more I take leave of them, for want of on-line time, the more wading back into them half-heartedly tends to just give me a headache.) The autobiographical aspects of Crawford's book have tended to invite a lot of this commentary both _from_ commentator's autobiographical positions and _on_ the autobiographies of other commentators (and of course on Crawford). So there's a bunch of eggheads writing about the manual trades. They don't know a bushing from a Bourdieu! How bogus! In this way, the Crawford debate is starting to resemble those debates that spring up periodically when Judith Warner or Linda Hirshman or Caitlin Flanagan unleash some salvo that touches the very raw sensitivities and sets off the mutual resentments of the working versus the stay-at-home pundits and the debate devolves into what you might, if you were feeling charitable, call extremely retail anthropology. You (Caleb) are probably better situated than I to guess whether the tendencies or norms of porcher-dom invite this stuff. I concede that the presentation and marketing of Crawford's book invite it as well, but I for the life of me don't see where it gets us. Caleb…I thank you for your kind remarks, I am happy to not-disown your post (though I don’t know if I would be in violation of your property rights in claiming to “own” it), but the conversation into which I found it leading me was one I prefer to stay out of. (That’s actually the case with most internet conversations I used to follow very closely – the more I take leave of them, for want of on-line time, the more wading back into them half-heartedly tends to just give me a headache.) The autobiographical aspects of Crawford’s book have tended to invite a lot of this commentary both _from_ commentator’s autobiographical positions and _on_ the autobiographies of other commentators (and of course on Crawford). So there’s a bunch of eggheads writing about the manual trades. They don’t know a bushing from a Bourdieu! How bogus! In this way, the Crawford debate is starting to resemble those debates that spring up periodically when Judith Warner or Linda Hirshman or Caitlin Flanagan unleash some salvo that touches the very raw sensitivities and sets off the mutual resentments of the working versus the stay-at-home pundits and the debate devolves into what you might, if you were feeling charitable, call extremely retail anthropology. You (Caleb) are probably better situated than I to guess whether the tendencies or norms of porcher-dom invite this stuff. I concede that the presentation and marketing of Crawford’s book invite it as well, but I for the life of me don’t see where it gets us.

]]> By: Caleb Stegall http://www.frontporchrepublic.com/2009/07/recognition-and-the-art-of-motorcycle-maintenance/#comment-6325 Caleb Stegall Wed, 15 Jul 2009 15:15:24 +0000 http://www.frontporchrepublic.com/?p=4524#comment-6325 This is a phenomenal insight. And if I may be so bold, <a href="http://www.frontporchrepublic.com/?p=4731" rel="nofollow">what I was merely gesturing at here</a>, Feeney has now given philosophical/theoretical legs. Of course Matt is free to disown my coopting of his post. This is also directly relevant to the argument of late between Porchers and Pomocons. The argument is really about freedom and the conditions that give rise to freedom. This is a phenomenal insight. And if I may be so bold, what I was merely gesturing at here, Feeney has now given philosophical/theoretical legs. Of course Matt is free to disown my coopting of his post.

This is also directly relevant to the argument of late between Porchers and Pomocons. The argument is really about freedom and the conditions that give rise to freedom.

]]> By: An FPR Symposium: Shop Class as Soul Craft, by Matthew Crawford | Front Porch Republic http://www.frontporchrepublic.com/2009/07/recognition-and-the-art-of-motorcycle-maintenance/#comment-6224 An FPR Symposium: Shop Class as Soul Craft, by Matthew Crawford | Front Porch Republic Wed, 15 Jul 2009 05:06:05 +0000 http://www.frontporchrepublic.com/?p=4524#comment-6224 [...] Wednesday’s Posts: Patrick Deneen and Matt Feeney [...] [...] Wednesday’s Posts: Patrick Deneen and Matt Feeney [...]

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