[lbo-talk] Deconstructionism in contemporary leftish discourse

Michael Smith mjs at smithbowen.net
Fri Jan 16 17:26:37 PST 2015


On Fri, January 16, 2015 5:29 pm, JOANNA A. wrote:


> what the deconstructionists were doing seemed like
> they were borrowing a vast vocabulary whose actual content they either
> didn't understand or which they decided to ignore.

That's very true. It's a lot of fun asking a lit-crit type to explain what he means by 'structuralism'.

-- Michael Smith

It is very easy for someone to be good at math; most of the time the kind of math that economists do would not impress a mathematician, but it is enough to impress people around them in the school of social sciences. -- Thomas Piketty



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