Date: Mon, 27 Nov 95 18:28 CST
From: Scott Marshall <Scott-AT-rednet.org>
Subject: Re: Joel Kovel says, "Stop me before I cure again!"


Matt, I really like most of your posts and I'm sure this is rather profound...

>I'm inclined, for that reason among others, to be skeptical
>of anti-psychiatric stances, especially those, like Mr. Kovel's, which seem
>to be analogs of broader anti-science moralising B.S.....

I'm with you this far.....

>reflecting a sort
>of bastardized Habermasianism (critique of the extension of instrumental
>rationality) incongruously blended w/ a retro-Nietzschean fascination
>w/ the "freedom" of the "self-overcoming" individual.

..but could you translate this into laypersonese that I might grasp...:-) or
am I once again just being a good straight man?

Scott



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