Date: Sat, 04 Dec 1999 16:27:05 -0500 Subject: Re: Identity Politics From: "Lisa Anne McNee" <lm23-AT-qsilver.queensu.ca> Terry, What would you do with Kwame Anthony Appiah, who has done books in mainstream philosophy (Anglo-American analytical logic tradition started pretty much by Wittgenstein), but who has become a multidisciplinary thinker who is cited more often by people in literature and poco theory than by philosophers? And do you accept Rorty in the contemporary field, even if you subtract a point for mentions of Derrida? Lisa ---------- >From: Terry Goldie <tgoldie-AT-yorku.ca> >To: postcolonial-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu >Subject: Re: Identity Politics >Date: Sat, Dec 4, 1999, 12:36 PM > >Although.... >No one except real litcrit types would be interested in Said on Conrad if >not for the poco Said. People who are "famous" are known for their field >of fame. >Having said that, mainstream philosphy has been notoriously inhospitable >to women but then again how many of you know how many names from the >mainstream of contemporary philosophy? >(you might get a point for Wittgenstein [a bit early] but the point will >be subtracted if you try to mention Derrida or Foucault) >terry > >Terry Goldie >English Department >York University >North York, Ontario >Canada >M3J 1P3 >voice: 416-604-3670 >fax: 416-736-5412 >email: tgoldie-AT-yorku.ca > > > > --- from list postcolonial-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu --- > --- from list postcolonial-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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