Re: the road ahead

on 4/19/01 10:41 PM, Nathan Goralnik at rhizome85@xxxxxxxx wrote:

> I imagine nearly all of you will find this label to be rank and offensive...

More likely just artificial and as arbitrary as what it attempts to denote.

It's more like reinscribing critical theory in a discourse of liberal
politics, particularly in the way Rorty chooses to use the terms once he's
defined them as such. It's all very simple to describe things in such ways
but it doesn't take long before principles are conflated and "effective
action" (which is, coincidentally, never defined) becomes the presumed
standard for action.

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Asher Haig ahaig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Dartmouth 2004

"They misunderestimated me."

-- Bush, Bentonville, Ark., Nov. 6, 2000


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