Aesthetic Materialism

    I suspect that F. H. Bradley is more important in the history of philosophy than it might appear.   Bradley hovers in the background of all of that first generation of Analytic philosophers.  Officially, of course, they rejected Bradley, and Bradley's quasi-Hegelianism.  A.J. Ayer was particularly vicious towards him.  (Was Bradley really a Hegelian?  I'd say it's debatable at best.  Ultimately, personally, I would say, no - Bradley's idealism was quite different from Hegel's - maybe even, in some ways, superior to it.  But I'm willing to listen to opposing views on this point.) But Bradley is there, lurking, almost as a kind of unconscious for the Analytics.  Russell, of course, openly admitted his intellectual debt to Bradley.  I see Bradley's influence even more acutely in Wittgenstein.  Wittgenstein's entire oeuvre looks to me like the return of the repressed.  From his early philosophy to his late philosophy, I see a gradual revival of Bradleyan

 Postmodernism is a fancy term for the period of the solidification of total US hegemony.

 The USSR was an American client state.

 I'd summarize Wittgenstein this way: you can take the boy out of the continent, but you can't take the continent out of the boy.