Romantic Speech and Marxist Freedom (was Re: Derrida down under)
Michael Hoover
hoov at freenet.tlh.fl.us
Tue Sep 7 15:11:31 PDT 1999
> What (limited, distorted, & elitist) notion of freedom may emerge in
> this oscillating reaction by the romantic avant-garde to capitalism
> (and to the place science and modern industry occupy in it)?
> Yoshie
I, admittedly, have not closely followed the thread to which Yoshie
is commenting upon/responding, but everytime I see a reference to the
avant-garde, I can't help but recall T. J. Clark's comment in his
book on Courbet (_Image of the People_) that it is an unabashed form
of social climbing. Michael Hoover
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