Amen! m.
...and pass the potatoes.
I'm impressed. You managed to find a quote that says that Lacan, Derrida, and Foucault have nothing to do with philosophy or literature. That takes talent -- such nonsensical reactionary rambling by jaded figures who have closed themselves off to the possibility that those theorists just MIGHT have some ethical implications to their texts is hard to come by.
Or in your case, maybe it isn't, which is the scary part.
Blender747,
First, my post is primarily about inserting these thinkers into literature where they don't belong. Ethics is a branch of philosophy. The act of reading and discussing an article by, say, Foucault about how thinking does/doesn't exist or some such thing belongs in a philosophy course under the tutelage of a competent, knowledgeable Philosophy professor. Lit-trained professors have no business pretending to be philosophers.
And my own comments are anything but "nonsensical reactionary rambling". Frankly, in light of my personal reflections in this post, I would expect a little more benevolence from someone who thinks he has something important to say about these figures. If you disagree with Ms Paglia, then say why. Don't berate me.
The result of your message is the opposite of what you (may) intend. Your obvious anger and hatred for my views makes you the "jaded figure" here. It also transports me right back to college, where anyone who disagrees with postmodernists will encounter, not engagement of ideas, but only incredibly vicious, knee-jerk attitudes from same. It's a wasteland of unreason, and you've done nothing to disprove that.
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