MDDM "Truth" and history

[jbor]

on 17/8/02 2:04 PM, Terrance at lycidas2 at earthlink.net wrote:

> "Referring to the loose collection of theories
> usually associated with such names as Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault,
> and Roland Barthes (BTW, All white males, no?)

Only two of them dead, however, and I'm not sure that Derrida, as the son of
an Algerian Jewish family, quite counts as "white", but I take your point.
She could as easily have added Julia Kristeva, Luce Irigaray, Michèle Le
Doueff (someone I think you might like), Marguerite Duras or Linda Hutcheon,
I guess.

I actually thought Keenan's article was fairly even-handed, and entertaining
(it being a weekend newspaper, after all), and that the battle metaphors she
used were only half-serious. There seemed to me to be a real theme of
conciliation, or common ground, coming through in *her* report on the
debate.

http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2002/08/16/1029114008334.html

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