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

[Dave Monroe]

Without further commentary (for the time being ...) on
the Derrida-Habermas accord, thanks for the
clarification, as well as the reminder that it's been
a while since I made a current-periodical run to the
local university library (CI, October, Representations
...) 'cos so far as I know, JD's yet to reach teh
horion of his theorizin' ...

--- Paul Mackin <paul.mackin at verizon.net> wrote:
>
> On Mon, 2004-01-05 at 08:39, autodidactionhero
> wrote:
>
> > Didn't Derrida recently also make some
> > desperation pronouncement about Theory.
> 
> The new Critical Inquiry (30.2 2004) goes back and
> forth on the question atlength--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....
>
> Thanks, Jason. I now remember the Derrida thing I
> was thinking of. My question was very misstated.
> Doug had referred the p-list to a newspaper
> piece about a statement written by Habermas against
> the Iraq War that Derrida had agreed with and
> signed. The statement seemed quite Eurocentric and
> Enlightenment-based to a lot of people. It was
> played up as a retreat from postmodernism etc. ...

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