Date: Tue, 09 Feb 1999 12:14:14 +0000
From: Hash <scribble-AT-clara.net>
Subject: H. Bhabha's "bad" writing


Hi y'all

Homi Bhabha was recently awarded a prize for his "bad" writing by Denis
Dutton, a philosophy of art bod at the University of Canterbury, NZ, who
hands out an annual award to the best examples of jargon-filled philosophy
he can find. 

Dutton said: "As a lifelong student of Kant, I know that philosophy is not
always
well-written. But when Kant or Aristotle or Wittgenstein are most
obscure, it's because they are honestly grappling with the most
complex and difficult problems the human mind can encounter. How
different from the desperate incantations of the Bad Writing Contest
winners, who hope to persuade their readers not by argument but by
obscurity that they too are the great minds of the age."

I wonder what pocol people make of this?

Winners of the Bad Writing Contest can be
found at <http://www.cybereditions.com/aldaily/>

Hash
London, UK





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