Doug Henwood wrote:
>
> Something's happened to Judith Butler's prose style - it's gotten
> clear, even elegant.
Tentative hypothesis:
(Postulate: Styles do not become "suddenly clear" unless the capacity to be clear always existed.)
Her previous opaque style was grounded neither through inability to write clearly nor the demands of the subject (which might be the explanation in, say, the works of Hegel or Whitehead) but deliberately chosen to conceal the lack of content. Now she has something to say, and thus can afford to write clearly.
Carrol