[lbo-talk] NSK

Dennis Claxton ddclaxton at earthlink.net
Wed Oct 28 15:11:43 PDT 2009


At 03:04 PM 10/28/2009, Chris Doss wrote:


>The only way to actually know what Slovene academics are talking
>about would be to learn Slovenian, which I am not going to do.

Yeah. That's why hardly anyone in the U.S. knows anything about what academics in France or Germany are doing. They don't know French or German.


>Unless Slovenia is some kind of exception to the general rule, its
>intellectuals are likely to be most concerned with things that
>effect Slovenes, such as Slovene history, the meaning of the EU for
>Slovenia, the legacy of communism and the break-up of Yugoslavia, etc.

Precisely the things that NSK was/is concerned with.


>I am not attacking Zizek here. I rather like him, but he's not a
>standard Eastern European academic, which was my original point.

But you're just guessing, which is my point.



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