At 7:06 PM 11/16/96, Mark Weisbrot wrote: >IMHO, the pomos have made a major positive contribution by >transforming a large part of the humanities' undergraduate curriculum, to >the point where it is now common for freshman comp. courses to question such >"myths" as American democracy, equality of opportunity, etc. Did the pomos do this? Really? Old-fashioned lefties have been trying to do this for decades without the benefit of having read Of Grammatology. Noam Chomsky, who is probably more anti-pomo than I am even, has done more to popularize such critical thinking in the U.S. than any professor of identity ever has. A theoretical problem: if there is no truth, only provisional constructions of truth, and if there is no master narrative, but only a polyphony of local narratives and situated knowledges, than how can you criticize the official (celebratory) version of history as "false"? Doug -- Doug Henwood Left Business Observer 250 W 85 St New York NY 10024-3217 USA +1-212-874-4020 voice +1-212-874-3137 fax email: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> web: <http://www.panix.com/~dhenwood/LBO_home.html>
