Newton Garver was born in Buffalo NY, returning in 1961 to teach Philosophy at the University of Buffalo. There he rose through the ranks, becoming Distinguished Service Professor in 1991. At UB he chaired the Faculty Senate, published respectably, and traveled and lectured extensively. Now retired from active teaching, he lives nearby in a country house built by his grandparents, together with Anneliese Garver, his wife of 50 years. He continues to write and to give occasional lectures, but is more occupied with upkeep of the land and with various Quaker activities.
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How Wittgenstein completed the linguistic turn, replacing analysis with grammar as method, replacing knowledge with clarity as goal.
Introduction:
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ARE WE CHRISTIAN?
In his book Why Friends are Friends Jack Willcuts claims that the first thing to say about us Quakers is that we are Christian. That would not have occurred to me. I have no doubt that thousands of Quakers agree with Friend Jack Willcuts. These Friends identify themselves with the Christian tradition as opposed to other religious traditions, they accept some or most of the core beliefs spelled out in the Christians creeds, and they may believe that pastors have a special relation to God. Nothing revealed in the light given to me leads me to such a sectarian identity.
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The book Derrida and Wittgenstein, which I wrote with Seung-Chong Lee, was published in 1994 and then translated into Korean, where it has had greater success than in the US. It is now to have a second Korean edition, and the following is my contribution to the Preface of that second edition. -- NG
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Dear Senator Schumer,
The Buffalo News editorial for 8/19/09 advocates two reforms that could save health-care dollars: electronic medical records (which they reckon would save billions) and tort reform (which they reckon would save hundreds of billions).
You and everyone else favors the new form of record keeping and record sharing, in spite of worries about privacy that ACLU and others have expressed. Fine. I imagine that we will realize those savings, but that still leaves four 800-pound gorillas in the corners of the health-care lobby. Unfortunately you and most other senators (except Russ Feingold, bless his heart) seem cozy with the gorillas. Congress feeds them, and they feed Congressional campaign chests.
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NOTES IN BOLIVIA - - 2007
Newton Garver
