The Beginning

Jim Farmelant farmelantj at juno.com
Mon Oct 8 15:05:48 PDT 2001


On Mon, 08 Oct 2001 12:58:17 -0700 Michael Pugliese <debsian at pacbell.net> writes:
> >...So, in other words, there will be more bloodshed -- lots of it in
> fact --
> though in the Next Phase it will be shed in the name of The People
> instead
> of Allah. Can't wait.
>
> DP
>
> We'll be seeing more apologias like, "Humanism and Terror, " by
> Merleau-Ponty, I'd say. But w/o the sophistication.

I'd dare say! Not in an age when a George W. can pass for a president. I guess that Christopher Hitchens is about as sophisticated as we are likely to see, in other words not very, despite his past displays of polemical talent. The debasement of bourgeois discourse is about complete


>(Hmm, is the
> word
> sophistication derived from sophistry?)

I believe so.

Jim F.


>Time to (re)read Ferenc
> Feher on
> Redemptive vs. Democratic Paradigms in Radical Politics, if y'all
> haven't.
> Telos: issue # 63
> ... Report Daniel Cohen: The End of Keynesianism Ferenc Feher:
> Redemptive
> and Democratic
> Paradigms in Radical Politics Joel Whitebook: The Politics of
> Redemption ...
> www.angelfire.com/biz/telospress/contents63.html
>
>

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