what is NEH?
On Sat, 23 Sep 2000, Allen Miller wrote:
> 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.
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> 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
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> >>> 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
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