West on Bradley's Gravitas

Daniel F. Vukovich vukovich at uiuc.edu
Sun Jan 16 13:58:50 PST 2000


At 02:36 PM 1/16/00 -0500, you wrote:
>I thought Weaseltier's piece on West was outrageous,
>unfair, right-wing bullshit. LW has awesome writing
>skills but doesn't seem to know about anything but
>lit.
>
>mbs

And you were right. LW may no less about theory -- about thinking and writing -- and the US context than even cybernatz like this ralph fellow. Nathan's post made perfect sense to me. I cant stand Bradley but might end up having to vote for him, just as I can question CW's decisions and rhetoric, without spewing ressentiment and without indulging in the pleasures of a "concealed" back-lash against Black public intellectuals. Richard Wright may be a better writer than CW, and Fanon has them all beat anyway, but they are still dead, and it is still a rather different historical conjuncture.

dfv


>writes:
> >--Feed magazine on Cornel West-- URL below
> >
> >And for once, to say something good about The New Republic and Leon
> >Wieseltier, . . .

------------------------------------------------------ Daniel F. Vukovich Dept. of English; The Unit for Criticism University of Illinois Urbana, IL 61801 ------------------------------------------------------



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