Wolfe

Paul Mackin pmackin at clark.net
Thu Jun 8 14:04:18 CDT 2000



On Thu, 8 Jun 2000, Terrance wrote:
> Anyway, the
> Harper's Magaizine essay is not available on-line or I would
> post it. It is very funny. And the most humorous thing about
> the essay is the fact that the Dandy Wolfe attacks
> intellectual Marxists for driving Jaguars, wearing
> children's attire, being superfluously cynical, crossing off
> disciplines, and turning language inside out and backwards
> on students that haven't yet figured out what their High
> School teachers didn't teach them about subjects and 
> objects. 

Curious to know which of the Intellectual Marxists Wolfe talks about. Is
Frederic Jameson one for example.

Sounds like the first thing the students would have to absorb that it is
impossible to establish a well grounded distinction between subject and
object. (no that's unfair I actually like to read these guys)

			P.




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