On 11/6/06, Doug Henwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Looks like we're back in the same territory as "Western leftists."
I dunno. If I understand it, Resnick & Wolff identify themselves as postmodernists. Or am I wrong about that? Anyway, "postmodernists" is more specific than "Western leftists." It's a generally self-defined group of people. Their ideas are defined relative to other trends on the left. If we stop talking about pomos, we stop talking about _any_ schools of thought. Strictly speaking, the only "pomos" I've read at any length have been Resnick & Wolff and their followers. (That's because they write significantly better than the other ones.) So maybe we should talk about their school rather than the broader abstraction. But there's nothing wrong with abstractions _per se_ as long as they can be linked to concrete (specific) cases in some way. One of the problems with the way that the term "Western leftists" was being used was that there were no specific cases. -- Jim Devine / This space for rent. Post no bills.
