[lbo-talk] Derrida dead

[Michael Dawson]

OK, but isn't it somewhat pathetic that, just as MLK was getting shot for
starting to talk about class, white folks were going into the Weather
Underground and/or its linguistic after-excuse?  The Man didn't cave, so
words mean little and reality's a joke.  Spoilt children.

-----Original Message-----
From: lbo-talk-bounces at lbo-talk.org [mailto:lbo-talk-bounces at lbo-talk.org]
On Behalf Of Doug Henwood
Sent: Monday, October 11, 2004 9:26 AM
To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] Derrida dead

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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