Sollers

C. G. Estabrook galliher at alexia.lis.uiuc.edu
Wed Feb 24 12:51:35 PST 1999


One may be able to defend Sollers on the grounds that he's just funnin', but it would be out of character for Perry Anderson to comment on something he hadn't read. And the comment comes from Anderson's sustained attack on "left-theory folks."

--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



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