[lbo-talk] On witchcraft (was how rad. Derrida?)

[Miles Jackson]

James Heartfield wrote:
> 
> That surely is the failure of the sociology of knowledge writ large, its 
> inability to defend the superiority of scientific understanding from 
> superstition. Without that there can be no Marxism, no Darwinism, no 
> critique of religion.

Demonstrating the "superiority" of one mode of knowledge over another 
has nothing to do with the sociology of knowledge.  Calling 
sociologists to task for not valorizing scientific knowledge is like 
castigating a drywall installer for not doing electrical work.  It's 
irrelevant to their work.

Miles