He's not on the list, but I have a good friend who is very influenced by Derrida and de Man and somehow managed to be committed to a socialist politic at the same time. In regards to poor writing in current academic work, I think that one of the worst influences on writing right now isn't anything to do with post-this or that, but is the demand that one publish to get tenure, which means that a lot of half baked ideas wind up getting put into publication that either should have never seen the light of day or needed further development..... robert wood
> Asad wrote:
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> "but I really
> don't understand this kind of knee-jerk reaction from people who subscribe
> to an intellectual/political tradition that attempted to describe a new
> historical period and recruited the most jargon-laden and obscurantist
> bourgeois philosophical fashion of the day to do so."
>
> We do? I don't think there's a single deconstructionist on this list.
> I could be wrong.
>
> Joanna
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