>
> And a good
>deal of marvelous scholarship of the last 40 or 50 years has strongly
>questioned many features of that old account. Some of this scholarship
>would annoy our clarity fetishists -- the authors don't translate their
>greeek quotations.
>
Carrol, this is insulting. I have never complained about scholarship, I
complained about a deliberately obfuscating jargon that developed in the
late seventies and that served no purpose except to render the
intelligentia politically useless and to create a "private" academic
language whose aim was to further differentiate among the thousands of
candidates for every single job.
(But, in my dissertation I did translate all my latin and greek quotes....as should everyone who doesn't have a giant stick up their butts.)
Joanna