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

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Sun Nov 8 07:13:13 PST 2009


On Nov 8, 2009, at 5:13 AM, Joseph Catron wrote:


> On Sat, Nov 7, 2009 at 6:15 PM, C. G. Estabrook
> <galliher at illinois.edu> wrote:
>
>> But x is universally wrong, and there are no (effectual) witches.
>
> So your claim is that the stupid unwashed masses have brought the
> witch doctors their money for centuries, but not a single one of them
> has ever gotten anything of value in return? By what strange logic
> would such a thing be possible?

Given the placebo effect, people can be "cured" by sugar pills. Should we condone the sale of sugar pills because of that?

Doug



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