[lbo-talk] Lionel Tiger does not like Clifford Geertz

[Charles Brown]

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He became the anthropological enforcer for  
the New York Review of Books and, like Steven Jay Gould in biology,  
intricately upheld a conventional world view which provided  
intimidating intellectual cover for politically correct thoughts and  deeds.

Prof. Geertz influenced the intellectual life of his time because he  argued
for the comforting and evasive simplification that there could  be no facts
about social life, only negotiable representations of  singular private
experiences and social positions. Fuzz. Fuzz. All  was imprecise, arguable.
There was no glisten to reality; it was  covered in fuzz. In anthropology,
the holy intellectual trinity of  race/class/gender became the imperative
explanatory tools to explain  and understand anything;

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CB: 

How would Geertz's fuzzy thinking and focus on subjectivity include the
clear and objectively tending trinity of race/class/gender ?  Is Tiger
fuzzing over something here ?

I've got a biologically founded thesis for Tiger, the Charles Darwin prof:
Capitalism is lowering our species Darwinian fitness.