Date: Wed, 27 Nov 1996 13:15:11 -0500
From: Bob hitching <hitching-AT-citizen.infi.net>
Subject: Re: HELP!!!


Omar Nasim wrote:
> 
> Greetings all,
> I am a confused post-modernist, Baudrillardian-philosophical-reader.  I
> have attempted to read some of Mr. Baudrillard's books and have found
> them to contain many confusing and obscure ideas.  I think that either I
> am a very stupid classial-anylitical-philosopher, or that Baudrillard,
> intentionally advocates ambiguity and is against the French idea of clear
> and distinct ideas.


Since when have the French ever been accused having clear and distinct ideas? I would 
suggest that ambiguity, from a non French perspective, is in actuality the motif of 
Baudrillard  and Lyotard. I have struggled enormously to unravel their writings but I 
wonder if it is not in fact that the nuance of what they are saying get's lost in the 
translation. Those who read it in the French may see it differently.It is like when I 
read Baudrillard that I think this man really does have something and I can feel 
instinctively that it is authentic and not metaphysical flatulence, but then I stumble 
into a mine field of concepts that seem quazi dada.

What to do?

Bob

Bob

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