File spoon-archives/marxism-thaxis.archive/marxism-thaxis_1997/marxism-thaxis.9710, message 200


Date: Mon, 20 Oct 1997 06:49:53 -0700 (PDT)
From: Ralph Dumain <rdumain-AT-igc.apc.org>
Subject: Re: M-G: Re: M-TH: Tragedy and farce


At 04:21 PM 10/19/97 -0500, Doug Henwood wrote:
>Hey Lou, I usually agree with you on nearly everything, 

This is too sad.

>but I've got to
>dissent on this one. Jameson, though often a terrible writer (why does he
>overuse "itself," I keep asking myself), is a serious, interesting, and
>radical guy. Just because he studies postmodernism doesn't make him an
>agent of the devil.

Please name some intellectual contribution Jameson has made to 
radical thought.  Yes, I know he brought us some of these German 
folks before they were widely available in English translation? 
But other than being an intellectual gossip, what are his own 
intellectual contributions to world thought?



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