pynchon-l-digest V2 #3707, death of theory tangent

[autodidactionhero]

>Didn't Derrida recently also make some desperation pronouncement about
>Theory. Or literary criticism.  Think it was him.

>P.

The new Critical Inquiry (30.2 2004) goes back and forth on the question at
length--it's the "Future of Criticism" issue--and the angle of the symposium
questions deal with this idea that criticism/theory is on the decline and
has "backed off from its earlier sociopolitical engagements."  Derrida's not
in it though.  The NY Times--the paper that ran the Eagleton interview? I
can't remember--ran an epitaph on theory at the time of CI symposium.  Nice
little blip on the cultural radar.  At least none of the panel participants
had to get married in Vegas for some news coverage--


Jason