>Empowering? Frankly, literary theory strikes me as one of the most
>_crippling_ things ever devised. I've rarely seen anyone with a
>background in literary theory acquire power, or even demonstrate an
>ability to deliver power to those who need it most.
According to Slavoj Zizek in Tarrying with the Negative:
>Prior to becoming a
>revolutionary, Pol Pot was a professor at a French lycée in Phnom Penh,
>known for his subtle readings of Rimbaud and Mallarmé Abimael Guzman,
>"presidente Gonzalo," the leader of the Senderistas, is a philosophy
>professor whose preferred authors are Hegel and Heidegger and whose
>doctoral thesis was on Kant's theory of space.