The Law is pretty unequivocal on this issue. Deviants will be ignored and/or ridiculed. Here's how it works: there are two stages to a methodological critique -- the critical and the applied. The critical stage is can be long and tortuous and can be cheerfully dismissed by the eyes-glaze-over rule. The applied stage, which is comprehensible within the context of the preliminary critique, can be readily shot down under the orthodox criteria, say of "rigor" and "consistency", that have been systematically dismantled by the methodological critique .
I cite an incident in which Keynes came in second in a civil service exam. His worst score was in Economics. His explanation was, "I knew more than the examiners." On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 8:05 AM, Jim Devine <[email protected]> wrote: > Doug Henwood wrote: > > I was at Yale from 1971 to 1975 when the English department was really > cooking - Bloom, Hartman, de Man, Derrida sometimes. You may find that gang > to be full of it - I didn't, and still don't - but it was intellectually > very alive.< > > I think I've figured out what I don't like about literary criticism. > It's not the lit crit _per se_ (after all, a lot of economics is BS, > too). It's just that there's so little follow-through to write novels > and other literature based on the criticisms. > > But since I'm not a literatum, my vision of this issue is likely > blurred at best. My barb is based on generalization from experience > with so many "heterodox" economists who talk about methodology but so > seldom apply what they perceive as a correct methodology; if they do, > they rarely seem to come out with much in the way of new > understandings of reality. I'm not against discussions of methodology > _per se_ as much as _stopping_ with it. > -- > Jim Devine / "In an ugly and unhappy world the richest man can > purchase nothing but ugliness and unhappiness." -- George Bernard Shaw > _______________________________________________ > pen-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l > -- Sandwichman
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