[lbo-talk] How radical was Derrida? (was 'does anyone read poststructuralism anymore?')

Ted Winslow egwinslow at rogers.com
Sun Nov 8 06:03:05 PST 2009


Chris Doss wrote:


> Selective use of Cartesian doubt is the lamest strategy in the
> world. "I'm going to hold your arguments up to the highest
> conceivable standard, but mine are clearly grounded. I know that
> because I know they're right, because God told me so."
>

The point had nothing to do with "Cartesian doubt".

The question was just asking you to apply what you had claimed about all "belief", including about your own "beliefs", to your belief about "human cognition". You had earlier explicitly said about your own "very notions of what knowing and being right are" that:


> my very notions of what knowing and being right are are dependent on
> where I fall in a changing system. What historical period I live in,
> what place I occupy in society, etc.

Ted



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