Alterman and Rorty (was "Re: Some of what Alterman said)

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

Doug writes back to Frances Bolton (PHI)
>>The two are virtually indistinguishable. Is this just standard liberal
>>doctrine?
>Isn't this just one more attempt (by Rorty on the high end and Alterman on
>the low) to assert some pragmatic, pure native strain Americanism, against
>all that decadent and foreign stuff going on in the humanities departments?
>In the 50s it was Marxists; in the 90s it's Derrideans and queers.

And Americanism is one _identity politics_ that Rorty, Alterman, etc. would
love us to embrace. So much for 'critiques of identity politics.'

Yoshie