My favorite exchange with him happened after he sent me over an email entitled: "Kant's Critique of Pure Cunnilingus" ... he was amused to see us ranting away about the insidious BHL in *The Activist. *And quite correctly pointed out that if, "BHL’s adventures with 3d world neo-Kantians are devastating if he’s a man of stature; but if he’s just a pompous journalist with an inflated style who gets over on French pseudo-intellectuals so what?"
And I suppose there's nothing wrong with that outlook. I'll keep it with me.
ps ~ some of his strongest work were in the last few issues of *New Politics * - http://newpol.org/node/178
On Sun, Mar 6, 2011 at 10:32 AM, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
> I just heard that Bob Fitch died. He had a blood clot in his leg that
> traveled. He had a couple of heart attacks last week and was in a coma. He
> had another heart attack that killed him.
>
> I'm kind of speechless. I'd fallen out of touch with Bob in recent years,
> but I liked and admired him a lot. This is very sad.
>
> Doug
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