Anti-postmodernism, cont.

[R. Fiero]

ben De Bruyn wrote:

>Again, I have to add that I'm not a big fan of Derridean 
>obscurantism myself. . . .
>Comparing Derrida and Lacan with Chomsky, btw, is simply 
>ludicrous. Not only are they doing different things, they are 
>doing it in different ways. Misguided, perhaps, but 
>nevertheless, different and therefore difficult to compare 
>(which is the real problem in my book). And btw, these 
>'ridiculous' quotes prove nothing. There are ridiculous quotes 
>to be taken from my or ! your post, as well as from Chomsky's work.
>Nonetheless sympathetic to the overall argument and glad to've 
>found such an interesting topic for debate,
>B

Nuts!  I had thought it was pretty straightforward to draw a 
tree Spinoza -> Marx -> Saussure -> . . . with Chomsky + 
Derrida + Lacan as terminating nodes having methodologies rather than theories.


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