Paglia on poststructuralists

[Joel Katz]

madonna who?  and, like paglia feels compelled to talk about her greaseball 
parents?

just the same, she scores a (low) point.  but to me, only derrida is the 
real fraud of the trio.  foucault has unquestionably changed the way history 
is written--for the better (see: mike davis).  and lacan is insane--but 
still grounded enough in freud and modernist concerns with narrative and 
perspective that his work, in skilled hands (see: slavoj zizek), has come to 
seem remarkably relevant to critique of ideology.



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>"When I pointed out in Arion that Foucault, for all his blathering about 
>"power," never managed to address Adolph Hitler or the Nazi occupation of 
>France, I received a congratulatory letter from David H. Hirsch (a 
>literature professor at Brown), who sent me copies of riveting chapters 
>from his then-forthcoming book, "The Deconstruction of Literature: 
>Criticism After Auschwitz" (1991). As Hirsch wrote me about French behavior 
>during the occupation, "Collaboration was not the exception but the rule." 
>I agree with Hirsch that the leading poststructuralists were cunning 
>hypocrites whose  tortured syntax and encrustations of jargon concealed the 
>moral culpability of their and their parents' generations in Nazi France."
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>Poststructuralism is a corpse. Let it stink in the Parisian trash pit where 
>it belongs!
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>SALON | Dec. 2, 1998
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