MDDM Ch. 7 Attitudes to slavery (reading theory)

jbor jbor at bigpond.com
Tue Oct 16 16:49:55 CDT 2001


paulngale at supanet.com wrote:

> Finally, I confess to being baffled. I fail to see how "we can only make
> sense of our experiences through language we share with others, not that
> there aren't aspects of our experience we don't share with others" is
> translated as "this formulation presupposes that language and phenomena
> share a 1:1 correspondence".

It was more your pretext about "we all live in the real world", which you've
chosen to omit. It's often used as a pragmatic or rationalist disproof of
the fact that the way individuals structure (and define) the real world is
constituted by language.

> To add insult to injury, I would argue that
> (some of)my posts have indeed illustrated the point made, as quoted, by
> Laclau & Mouffe

I certainly didn't mean to cause you offence. You derided "personal
response" theory as "obscurantist" and then gave your *personal response*
that it was deceitful, which is somewhat inconsistent.

best




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