Date: Fri, 21 Nov 1997 17:08:07 -0500
From: Doug Henwood <dhenwood-AT-panix.com>
Subject: Re: M-TH: Re: Capital, mon ami


Dennis R Redmond wrote:

>Derrida is a cultural progressive and
>certainly not a neoliberal, though hardly a radical

In an appearance at the offices of The Nation this afternoon, Jurgen
Habermas said that he just didn't understand why Americans drew the
political conclusions they did from poststructuralism. In Europe, it is not
the philosophical justification of disengagement that it is here, nor is it
as obsessed with discourse to the exclusion of social structures.

Derrida's name came up because Todd Gitlin recited a little anecdote that
he wanted Habermas to comment on. The anecdote went like this: Gitlin was
at a conference recently in Spain, where he was about to debate Bruno
Latour. Derrida asked him why he was there; Gitlin responded, "To defend
the Enlightenment." Derrida's response: "We must all do that now."

Doug





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