In any event, stated in their strong form, the lessons are that 1) there's a (one) right way and a (million) wrong way(s) to do things and we'd best not forget it... and 2) what ever you do, don't learn anything from people who are wrong, they have nothing to contribute, now shut up and only read the right stuff, 'cuz otherwise your wasting your time, my time and everyone else's time.
I believe I'll pass...
On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 8:17 PM, <wrobert at uci.edu> wrote:
> It seems that for James post-structuralism=stuff I don't like, because
> nothing else really holds these authors together. robert wood
>
> > Really, do people still do that stuff at colleges? No, honestly, I mean
> > are there still people reading Althusser and Foucault? Why not Lysenko,
> or
> > Bergson, while you are at it, or Sabbatai Zevi. If ever there were an
> > historical dead end, it would surely be post-structuralism. In all
> > seriousness, what worthwhile idea or text did post-structuralism ever put
> > before us? The best would have to be Orientalism, and it has long since
> > been shown to be historically wrong. Or there is Madness and Civilisation
> > (again, wrong, derivative and unscholarly). But even those are painfully
> > otiose, and not really worth the effort of mastering the neurotic word
> > games that cramp their meaning. Donna Harraway - playful maybe, but not
> > one iota of understanding advanced. Levi Strauss? One good story about
> > apprentices in a workshop, and for the rest, anal meanderings. Vladimir
> > Propp? A funny idea, as a parody of scholarship, but not really worth the
> > effort of tabulating all those fairy stories (and di!
> > d he even do it, or just make it up?). Does Derrida still have any
> > readers, do we remember the creed a' derrida?
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