>But as for the broader WITBD issue, well, it's not really a debater's
>tactic. The "what would you do, wise guy?" question is used all the time to
>silence critics; that's the juvenile debating tactic here, not Adorno's
>response.
I do not deny that people attempt to silence you by forcing you to outline a better system than the Anglo American stock market system of corporate finance, rather than allow you to deepen your already incisive critiques of the bourgeois celebration of it (I learned a whole lot from your market models critique chapter, esp the empirically rich comments on Tobin's q index). But Adorno seems to have been trying to silence criticism, not open the way for criticism which provides no positive alternative. Of course Adorno is celebrated for negative dialectics; I am not saying that Adorno didn't have a point in criticising that theory must have direct and positive practical implications but to equate students trying to redetermine the relationship between theory and practice with the Gestapo is juvenille. Anyway, Mark Jones was or is friends with a Phil Slater who has written an important critique of the Frankfurt School (Origin and Significance of the Frankfurt School) for their understanding of that relationship.
>Do you know WITBD, Rakesh? If you do, please tell us, because I
>don't see a very long list of answers floating around right now.
Well, yes, I must renew my sub to LBO.
Best, Rakesh