--C. G. Estabrook
On Wed, 24 Feb 1999, Lucky Pierre wrote:
> The Bourdieu piece is rather petty and polemically-motivated; it
> appeared at least five years ago. Sollers and others replied to it; I
> think the responses are all in an issue of L'Infini somewheres.
>
> Perry Anderson's take on Sollers' is a cliched one that is common among
> left-theory folks who haven't really read him. Sollers is a provocateur
> by trade, so he generates these sorts of attacks and thrives on them.
> They don't really get at what he's about, however. Both Anderson and
> Bourdieu take a very condescending perspective on Sollers, speaking as
> master-thinkers who resent the insolence of a literary interloper who
> dares to not defer to their valid knowledge, etc...
>
> It's an old game, sigh... and an endless one. Sollers is
> interesting if only for the way he outrages righteous thinkers <g>.
>
> jayson perry harsin
> Dept. of Communication Studies
> Northwestern University
> j-harsin at nwu.edu (773)508-4062