Date: Mon, 1 Jul 1996 06:14:56 -0400 (EDT)
From: Laura Wedner <lwedner-AT-emory.edu>
Subject: Re: de(con)struction



Whoever this anonymous professor of FF is supposed to be (!), I suggest 
just as a mild preliminary Irigaray's "A Chance for Life".  This babble 
about the supposed incomprehensibility of FF or poststructuralist 
writings in general is so tired; how many times have you heard someone 
say this who actually spent some time reading the stuff?  To hear it 
about Foucault is especially amusing, given that he's 100% more clear 
than the majority of philosophy books one comes across.  At least I can 
see a little initial confusion w/ respect to writers like Irigaray, but 
if one had any gumption whatsoever, it'd be easy enough to find easier 
and 'clearer' (by conventional standards) parts of her writing, not to 
mention those which have obvious (by conv. st.s....) practical merits.  
How often are such arguments not used as a cheap political maneuver?