[lbo-talk] Friends and enemies

dredmond at efn.org dredmond at efn.org
Wed Oct 20 13:35:09 PDT 2010


On Wed, October 20, 2010 10:24 am, Dennis Claxton wrote:


> At 08:54 PM 10/19/2010, 123hop at comcast.net wrote:
>
> I don't doubt that, but I'm usually left confused when people talk
> about radicalism in English departments because their influence seemed to
> me to be more a conservatizing canon creating one than otherwise.

Back in the 1990s, during my past life (it feels like the late Pleistocene) as a litcritter, I noticed many English departments tended towards conservativism. It was the Comparative Literature and the less-taught languages which were full of extraordinarily creative and interesting thinkers.

Possibly there was less imperial/national policing in the latter zones, which opened up a space for dissent. I have no idea what the situation has been since 2000, though.

-- DRR



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