MDDM "Truth" and history

[Terrance]

jbor wrote:
> 
> 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.

Thanks. 
> 
> 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.

I agree, was just playing.