From: "kent strock" <sigmund5-AT-hotmail.com> Subject: Re: Language Date: Fri, 21 May 1999 04:05:01 PDT > >Whilst agreeing with some of the sentiments re discourse (Adorno was right >on the bourgeois imperative for clarification), I must demur from others >and agree with Gellner when he says that just because the world is >tortured and difficult doesn't mean we have to write in such a way. Take >some post-modernist / post-structuralist writing - his is more a case of >torturing the reader, or a lesson in saying nothing at great length. It >has much in common with the sort of obfuscation one associates with >spindoctors and civil servants' public discourse. > >With best wishes, > >Karl > Are you refering to my writing or that of Bourdieu? >-------------------------------------------------------------------------- >Karl Maton >School of Education, University of Cambridge >17 Trumpington Street, Cambridge, England CB2 1QA > Tel. + 44 (0) 1223 336288 > Fax: + 44 (0) 1223 332894 >Email: kam13-AT-cam.ac.uk >-------------------------------------------------------------------------- >'Sick down to my heart ... but that's just the way it goes' > >********************************************************************** >Contributions: bourdieu-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu >Commands: majordomo-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu >Requests: bourdieu-approval-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu _______________________________________________________________ Get Free Email and Do More On The Web. Visit http://www.msn.com ********************************************************************** Contributions: bourdieu-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu Commands: majordomo-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu Requests: bourdieu-approval-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu
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