Lynn Cheney is very dangerous. During her tenure as head of NEH in the 80's, it was virtually impossible to get theoretically informed research funded.
Paul Allen Miller
Director, Program in Comparative Literature
Assoc. Prof. Classics
Co-editor Intertexts
Department of French and Classics
University of South Carolina
Columbia, SC 29208
pamiller@xxxxxx
(Ph) 803-777-0473
(Fax) 803-777-7514
>>> TODDVANNOY@xxxxxxx - 9/23/2000 11:28 AM >>>
Has anyone read the last edition of "The Nation" (October 2/2000) ? There is
an article detailing the views of the Republican Vice-Presidential
candidate's wife, Lynne Cheney- a right-wing culture warrior, ala William
Bennett. Apparently, Mrs. Cheney wrote a book in 1995, titled "Telling the
Truth," which seems to attack Foucault, as a defender of godless relativism,
I assume. According to the Nation, "Telling the Truth" declares that
Foucault's ideas threaten nothing less than the survival of western
civilization," going as far to blame Foucault for the murder of an ice-cream
vendor in Philadelphia, stating that "intellectual elites do no one a favor
by sending through society messages that there is no external reality in
which we all participate, that there is only the game of the moment, the
entertainment of the day."
Does anyone have any comments, concerning Mrs. Cheney's views?
TRV
Paul Allen Miller
Director, Program in Comparative Literature
Assoc. Prof. Classics
Co-editor Intertexts
Department of French and Classics
University of South Carolina
Columbia, SC 29208
pamiller@xxxxxx
(Ph) 803-777-0473
(Fax) 803-777-7514
>>> TODDVANNOY@xxxxxxx - 9/23/2000 11:28 AM >>>
Has anyone read the last edition of "The Nation" (October 2/2000) ? There is
an article detailing the views of the Republican Vice-Presidential
candidate's wife, Lynne Cheney- a right-wing culture warrior, ala William
Bennett. Apparently, Mrs. Cheney wrote a book in 1995, titled "Telling the
Truth," which seems to attack Foucault, as a defender of godless relativism,
I assume. According to the Nation, "Telling the Truth" declares that
Foucault's ideas threaten nothing less than the survival of western
civilization," going as far to blame Foucault for the murder of an ice-cream
vendor in Philadelphia, stating that "intellectual elites do no one a favor
by sending through society messages that there is no external reality in
which we all participate, that there is only the game of the moment, the
entertainment of the day."
Does anyone have any comments, concerning Mrs. Cheney's views?
TRV