We have read the equivalent of this article many times. Eagleton's is better written than most, but not noticeably more insightful, nor is it any more Marxist than, say, Veblen's superb The Higher Learning in America.
One detail: "the institutions that produced ... Einstein capitulate to the hard-faced priorities of global capitalism." He attended Swiss Polytechnic, where he seems to have acquired the basic conceptual tools and skills for physics in a routine way. Then he was on his own, struggling to make a living while also struggling to create fundamental theoretical physics. He did it, without tenure, without a university post of any kind let alone a professorship. Charlie announcement of my new book: http://www.hollowcolossus.com _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
