[lbo-talk] Description and Explanation vs. Justification (wasIslamism and the death of Vanguardism)

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

On 12/2/06, Dennis Perrin <dperrin at comcast.net> wrote:
> Yoshie --
>
> > If that's the way you go about it, you can't learn anything
> > from anyone who doesn't agree with you, and conversations become only
> > tedious.
>
> You are aware of the, ahem, "irony" of this statement, yes?

Have you actually read Saba Mahmood and Charles Hirschkind's essay?
If so, do you think it ought to be prefaced as "apologia," i.e., as a
piece that can be and should be dismissed out of hand?
-- 
Yoshie
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