[lbo-talk] RE: postmodern prince

joanna bujes jbujes at covad.net
Sun Nov 30 19:36:13 PST 2003


John wrote

"Every Xmas I give out multiple copies of Ward Churchill's Arbeiter Ring publication "Pacifism as Pathology: Notes on an American Pseudopraxis" to people I meet. Many of them don't even have a B.S and now they have all encountered the word praxis. I vote we keep the word."

Nah, practice is fine. I feel the same about "praxis" as I do about "cathexis" (attachment); there's every reason to use the english word and none to use the greekoid word...except if one needs to claim membership in an exclusive club.

Joanna



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