Date: Thu, 18 Feb 1999 20:40:27 -0500 From: Yoshie Furuhashi <furuhashi.1-AT-osu.edu> Subject: Re: Bad Writing? Scott Yates wrote: >This isn't to say that I don't think there can be accusations levelled at >certain theorists for being unnecessarily obtruse (Mary Gergen springs to >mind), >but it seems as though there exists in many places an overt prejudice against >post-structuralism/postmodernism as a whole. I think that Chomsky, whose >work I >studied a few years ago, highlights something on this. Unfailingly, his >response >to any question involving postmodernism is 'Sorry, I don't understand that. >Maybe I'm missig a gene or something.' I think that this is actually quite >dishonest. When such a renowned intellectual makes a comment like this, it's >quite a resounding dismissal. The dishonesty comes in when you discover >that he >never has never made any effort to engage seriously with a body of work he is >dismissing out of hand. Well, maybe Chomsky's giving a Foucauldian non-answer to post-structuralism, evading the ruse of discursive power, you know. Or maybe he is busy and/or has better things to do. Yoshie
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