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

Dennis Perrin dperrin at comcast.net
Sat Dec 2 14:07:28 PST 2006


rin 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?

Actually, I was referring to you making that statement, given your recent . . .ah, hell. Never mind.

Dennis



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