sadness of america/bad postmodernism

[Dave Monroe]

Actually, I spent about as more time in physics than I
did in English and Comp Lit, but ... but I'm not
arguing about Derrida here, I'm suggesting that your
recommendation of the Sokal and Bricmont book as a
corrective or whatever for "Derrida-heads" might
indicate you didn't much read the book in the first
place, as there's not only scant mention of Derrida,
but the authors specifically spare him their scorn ...

Maybe yr energies'd be better spent working on Fritjof
Capra or Gary Zukav or somesuch ...

--- John Doe <tristero69 at yahoo.com> wrote:

>  If you use a term like "Einsteinian Constant" ,
> clearly not knowing that no such thing exists, in a
> context where it doesn't apply even if it did,
> that's showing gross intellectual irresponsibility,
> not an - oops! - "slip"...physicists don't go
> around - except perhaps sarcastically - bandying
> terms from Hegelian dialectic and take themselves
> seriously as philososphers for doing so...you don't
> know many real scientists, do you? So what's
> Derrida's excuse? His ego?


	
		
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