Date: Tue, 07 Mar 1995 18:12:13 +1000 From: Steve.Keen-AT-unsw.edu.au Subject: Re: Bhaskar and dialectics As a recent victim of pulsating freedom -:), I have to agree with Ralph Dumain's comments: |My first impression: Bhaskar's very style betrays whatever |seriousness of intent he may possess: it is a style of shameless |intellectual huckerism: a constant barrage of impenetrable, |abstract prose, indulging in unbridled name- and concept-dropping |with every word, unnecessarily abstract terms and neologisms every |other word, this mumbo-jumbo of obscurity given a veneer of |scientific justification by means of quasi-mathematical symbols, |abbreviations, and diagrams. The arrogant, merciless ostentation |of Bhaskar's logorrhea hurts my eyes and offends my brain... He concludes |There are indeed a few paragraphs that make some sense. I have |seen these ideas explained much better, more comprehensively, and |more comprehensibly elsewhere, however. I do not take kindly to |authors who make themselves deliberately and unnecessarily |incomprehensible, when it seems the little they have to say could |be said without torturing the reader. Having struggled through the entire volume, I can predict you will-- if you bother--find a few more paragraphs of worth. If you like, I could fax them to you! Cheers, Steve Keen --- from list marxism-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu --- ------------------
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