Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1998 01:50:42 -0400 From: Doug Henwood <dhenwood-AT-panix.com> Subject: Re: Capitalist power is not possessed. M.A. King wrote: >I don't mean to pick on you, Yoshie, because, again, I'm not entirely sure >what's motivating your comments here. But I'm becoming increasingly >aggravated by the attitude (and again, this may not be yours, but it is >certainly pervasive in academia) holding that the thing to do with writers >is to point out their *failures*--an attitude which, of course, is >fostered by the competitive nature of academia; the name of the game is to >show why you succeed where everyone before you has failed (else why should >anyone pay attention to *you*?). Or to latch onto one writer--Marx and >Foucault being maybe the most popular--and show why everyone *else* fails >where they succeed. I was away for the weekend, and I'm just catching up - so I have no idea where this thread went, but I've been struck on this list by the predominant hagiographic tone, very much like that seen among orthodox Marxists - the same scriptural, catechistic tendencies. Is this true of any single-figure effort? It was true of the Wallace Stevens society when I used to follow it. Doug
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