[lbo-talk] Derrida dead

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Mon Oct 11 10:26:00 PDT 2004


jeffrey fisher wrote:


>isn't it sine qua non to a good philosophical conversation that we
>presume all interlocutors are actually trying to figure something
>out?
>
>well, i guess it's easier to just curtail that off the bat with
>attacks on people's motives using the most banal forms of pop
>psychoanalysis. much more insightful than trying to figure out
>what's going on. thanks.

Yup. One of the reasons I started this list was because I got tired of all the cheap "anti-pomo" shots that rightoues class warriors were making (and I used to be one of those shooters myself). Criticize JD all you like, but all this motive-questioning is embarrassing.

Doug



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