Date: Mon, 17 Jul 1995 04:06:50 -0400
Subject: Re: Said's Culture and Imperi...


"I wonder if our work is not to ignore Dickins, Conrad, Austin and those
other monuments to demonstrate to each other that who we are is not 
dependent upon our understanding of them."

Can one ignore the world in which we find ourselves?  Does not our thrownness
preclude such an ignorance?  
Isn't the challenge to know and transvalue?  I would very much like to hear
more about how one might "ignore" the culture with which one finds him or
herself in contact.  I think Said's work demonstrates the mutual malleability
of cultures in contact...


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