Date: Sun, 21 Sep 1997 14:17:14 -0400 (EDT)
From: Justin Schwartz <jschwart-AT-freenet.columbus.oh.us>
Subject: M-TH: Black Pomo & White Enablers



Ralph and I have lots of differences, but a split over the moral and
intellectual value of postmodernism, promoted by anyone of any hue, is not
among them. I agree with his scathing appraisal of appeals to
irrationalism and cheap relativism by minority intellectuals and deplore
the underdeserved defence they receive from white pomos who are no less
and indeed maybe more responsible for the current degradation of
intellectual life. I have been reading more of this dreck than I want in
connectual with my work as an articles editor on the Ohio State Law
Journal, and it concerns my suspicion that that white or Black, the only
direction pomo takes is back. 

I have a bit more regard for Cornel West than Ralph, although I probbaly
don't know as much as about West as Ralph does. But he has written two
reasonably decent books, The American Evasion of Philosophy, on
pragmatism, and The Ethical Dimension of Marxist Thought. Nothing is
profound in either book, but both are respectable efforts.

Ralph knows better than to call Nietxsche a fascist. N has a lot of
problems, but brown shirts are not among them.

--Justin Schwartz




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