----- Original Message ----- From: "kelley" <kwalker2 at gte.net> To: <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com>; <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com> Sent: Wednesday, September 26, 2001 4:49 PM Subject: Re: Sociology and Explanations (Re: Hitchens responds to critics
> At 07:00 PM 9/26/01 -0400, Wojtek Sokolowski wrote:
>
>
> >I do not buy it. I do not think that islamic leaders "represent"
the
> >oppressed masses in any meaningful way.
>
>
> they think they do. they think they represent th oppressed masses in
the
> same way left intellectuals in the US do. if you have learned
anything from
> a postmodern critique of modernity it is this: modernity's discourse
is one
> that claims to be able to make universal claims for all people about
human
> nature, freedom, justice, etc.
>
>
> kelley
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Spank yourself with some modernist irony Kelley because what the
modernists really fear is that pomo's semiconsciously embrace the
trope of tragedy that results from ineradicable pluralism[s] and
incommensurabilty[ies].
Ian