File spoon-archives/bourdieu.archive/bourdieu_1999/bourdieu.9905, message 63


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?




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