> On Saturday, November 29, 2003, at 11:28 PM, Michael Pugliese wrote:
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>> <URL: http://www.monthlyreview.org/pomoprincexcerpt.htm >
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> His aims are all well and good, but this book sounds too much like
> another Ph. D. thesis warmed over for publication.
>
> Why can't these leftist intellectuals learn to write decently? These
> long, complex sentences, filled with impossible coinages like
> "resingularization"! How can they ever hope to get a strong political
> movement going when only their fellow professors (and not many of
> them, even) can understand what the hey they are saying? And once and
> for all, let's give up the attempt to make "praxis" an English word.
> Nobody but graduate students has ever encountered it, or knows what it
> means.
Rather than a postmodern Prince, I'd suggest reading Frederick Crews' _Postmodern Pooh_. The moment when one academic describes Christopher Robin as a "proleptic Mao figure" is priceless. http://www.princeton.edu/~paw/web_exclusives/features/features_013002a.html