Saussure’s Bird and Wittgenstein’s Bild: The Origins of Our Ontological Dissensions (opens in new tab)

by David Hoyt Reading the Boghossian report on current state of the humanities in American higher education I was, as I am sure were many others, struck with a sense of déjà vu. Relativism versus realism, an irresponsible academic left versus a scolding academic right, even the same malefactors singled out, as if a cold…