On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 12:00 PM, Nicholas Ruiz III
<editor at intertheory.org> wrote:
> the comparison with Levy is brilliant...two puffed up pastries of sorts...
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> From: Dwayne Monroe <dwayne.monroe at gmail.com>
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> Sent: Wed, December 2, 2009 11:22:57 AM
> Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] Decline of the West
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> Max posted a link to this Scott McLemee essay about Cornel West:
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> <http://www.insidehighered.com/views/mclemee/mclemee267>
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> As an African American bloke and member -- in a difficult to define
> and describe sense -- of a loosely constructed and even more loosely
> affiliated intelligentsia -- I'm expected to leap into the air with
> ethnic and class pride-propelled joy at the thought Cornel West
> exists.
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> Friends, frenemies and foes alike are routinely surprised by and
> disappointed with my lack of enthusiasm. Why this meh-ness of
> response? After all, West is a smart fellow and has written and said
> some things with which I broadly agree.
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> It took awhile to sort out but I think I've got it: West is our
> Bernard Henri Levy. That is, there's certainly talent, style and the
> capacity for insight but it is smothered beneath a super-abundance of
> self regard and an unwillingness -- perhaps an inability -- to follow
> ideas and events to their logically radical conclusions.
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