[lbo-talk] Matriarchy/Patriarchy

[Louis Kontos]

Why bring Nietzsche into this? (He would laugh at sociobiological  
arguments. Everything he wrote was in opposition to the deterministic  
(philosophical and scientific) logic of his day.) The quote almost  
certainly does not belong to him. He did not believe that the purpose  
of the writer is to be 'understood' but instead to pursue truth  
fearlessly, thus rejecting the conventions of writing-reading  
(including the convention of separating theory from poetry -- he did  
write allot of aphorisms and parables, after all.) And he wrote  
endlessly of the necessity of readers to take responsibility of their  
own interpretations. This is where Foucault gets the idea that  
readers are always rewriting texts through their own biases and in  
service to their own needs.
Also, why the name calling? Should Cox respond in kind? Would you cry  
foul if he did?
Louis

On May 31, 2006, at 12:10 PM, B. wrote:


> To Commissar Cox: Since I first used "hardwired" in the thread,  
> I'll respond: It was casual shorthand, used in place of the more  
> cumbersome and prolix phrase "innate inclination towards." For  
> example, I think it'd be fair to say humans are hardwired to inhale  
> and exhale oxygen.
>
> I think there's a quote attributed to Nietzsche that's something  
> like, "The good writer does not write for an overly critical or  
> shrewd audience, and prefers being understood to being admired." My  
> own usage of "hardwired" was in that spirit. It's an  
> oversimplification, yes, but unless you simplify lots of things  
> here -- while remaining conscious of how they simplify, and what  
> sorts of problems that could cause -- you end up writing posts that  
> are like 34k grad-school looking things, which suck to read.
>
> -B.
>
>
> Carrol Cox wrote:
>
> "I suggest that it is nearly impossible to have a rational  
> conversation while allowing use of the metaphor of 'hard-wired.'"
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