On Mon, 11 Oct 2004, Michael Dawson wrote:
> Nada, none, zilch. That's the secret to the whole thing. It provided a
> professional lingo to an interest group not well enough educated to acquire
> a legitimate reason to talk like mandarins. Greatest hoax in social science
> history, and its main role was to add grease to the Cold War rails shuttling
> stuff like C. Wright Mills out of academia.
>
This is a bizarre claim. Lit crit or philosophy, okay. Social sciences? Deconstruction has had little or no impact on psychology, sociology, political science, or economics. If you open any intro soc textbook, you'll find a summary of Mills' concept of the sociological imagination; in contrast, you won't find a reference to Derrida.
Miles