[lbo-talk] "Theory's Empire," an anti-"Theory" anthology

[Jerry Monaco]

On 5/30/08, Michael Pollak <mpollak at panix.com> wrote:
>
> On Fri, 30 May 2008, Jerry Monaco wrote:
>
>> It is no different for instance, than the way Tiberius Gracchus, from
>> what we can surmise "valued" the world, or Machiavelli.
>
> Machiavelli was not a political theorist?????
>
> You and I have different standards.
>
>> You can call them "theories" if you wish also, but they don't seem to me
>> to have the explanatory power of Quantum Mechanics or evolutionary
>> biology.
>
> Of course not.  Those are theories of natural science.  The world of
> meaning doesn't work that way.  Science got its whole start by excluding
> intensions and interpretations and focusing entirely on forces --- a good
> idea when studying the nature world, which is made up of matter of forces,
> and where the existence of beings with wills was an illusion.  But you
> can't do that with people.  In the world of meanings, interpretation is
> everything.  So everything's always disputable.
>
> Michael
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