Anti-philosophy

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A Scheme for abolishing all Words is one of the wittiest and smartest comments on semantics. (Illustration: extreme close-up from the movie "The Big Swallow" (1901), produced and directed by James Williamson (1855-1933)

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Buddhist philosophy - Many philosophers of Zen would maintain that Zen is anti-philosophy.

Gorgias (dialogue) - Callicles goes on an anti-philosophy rant, saying there is no harm in young people engaging in useless banter, but that it is unattractive in older men. ...

De Stijl - Dadaist influences, such as I. K. Bonset's poetry and Aldo Camini's 'anti-philosophy' generated controversy as well. Only after Van Doesburg's death it was ...

Philosophical skepticism - At least in its manifestation of Nagarjuna's texts that form the core of Madhyamaka, the anti-essentialist aspect of Buddhism makes it an anti-philosophy.

Alain Badiou has recently coined the expression ‘anti-philosophy’ for these new and constitutively scandalous modes of intervening conceptually in the world; it is a term that Zizek has been very willing to revindicate for himself. --Fredric Jameson on The Parallax View by Slavoj Zizek
- "In my view, only those who have had the courage to work through Lacan's anti-philosophy without faltering deserve to be called 'contemporary philosophers'." From Vérité: forçage et innomable, translated as Truth: Forcing and the Unnameable in Theoretical Writings. London: Continuum, 2004. ISBN 0826461468.