The Contempt felt by Left Intellectuals towards their peers (Re: A 'Bad Writer' Bites Back by Judith Butler)

Charles Brown CharlesB at CNCL.ci.detroit.mi.us
Mon Mar 22 13:48:40 PST 1999



>>> <alexlocascio at juno.com> 03/22/99 09:08AM >>
Also, you wouldn't condemn a chemist or mathematician for being insufficiently committed to political "praxis?" So why hold a literary/cultural critic to the same standards?

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Charles: As things are going now, Einstein is looking like Mickey Mouse in the Sorcerers' Apprentice. The main practical result of Einstein's work has been nuclear weapons that threaten mass destruction. Natural scientists need commitment to political praxis as much as all other intellectuals.

Charles Brown



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