I can also extend this to people whose personal behavior I don't like. After all, their personal behavior is not totally sealed off from their intellectual production and must have influenced it. Picasso beat women -- no more Guernica for Chris! Althusser WAS A MURDERER -- no more For Marx on my bookshelf!
I really can't believe people advance such totalitarian arguments seriously. It's infantile. (PS: left-wingers don't know the Truth either.)
--- On Thu, 1/15/09, andie nachgeborenen <andie_nachgeborenen at yahoo.com> wrote:
> From: andie nachgeborenen <andie_nachgeborenen at yahoo.com>
> Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] How Politics Ruined My Life: Was Fuck Hope
> To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
> Date: Thursday, January 15, 2009, 11:05 PM
> >
> > If one likes the poems of right-wingers, one might
> want to
> > do a little introspection. Most "deep"
> thoughts,
> > even "personal" ones, impinge on politics
> and
> > ideology.
>
>
> If the object is to find the evil and corrupt reactionary
> core in me that needs to be rooted out so that I no longer
> love Yeats, Eliot (I don't actually like Pound, sorry
> Carrol), Larkin, sorry, I'm not interested in such
> introspection. I don't want not to love them. The day I
> no longer respond with awe to Nineteen Hundred and Nineteen
> (Yeats) or The Waste Land (Eliot), please take me out and
> shoot me.*
>
> Make what judgment of me, and of that, you will.
>
> This is actually a variation an an example worked up by my
> diss adviser, Allen Gibbard, to critique Richard
> Brandt's ethical theory!
>
>
>
>
>
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