Fish weighs in

[Kelley]

At 03:37 PM 10/15/01 -0400, Mina Kumar wrote:
It seemed bizarre
>>that events so serious would be linked causally with a rarefied form
>>of academic talk.
>
>
>What a bizarre understanding of the purpose of philosophy.

i sent this to a friend, who really like the essay, even though he's not a 
fan of stanley fish. we were talking about it further and i realized that 
i'd forgotten to point out that there seems to be a misunderstanding here.

Fish said that he thought it odd that anyone would think an event would be 
_causally__linked_ to postmodernist relativism--that S11 was something that 
could put an end to a "rarefied form of academic talk" or, my spin, even 
signal the end of a "rarefied form of academic talk".

so, i think it was a misreading that sparke dthe whole convo!

slip sliding along the signifying chain,

kelley