though i'm surprised you didn't touch too much on what i'd call postmodernity
Great minds think alike, because I spent all morning while engaged in gainful employment before I read your post thinking about how I hadn't mentioned postmodernity, and why I probably should. Not sure you mean the same thing I did, of course, but I wouldn't be surprised if you did.
or is that where you get too angry at Sapir-Whorf adherents?
The problem with Sapir-Whorf isn't that it's wrong somehow; it isn't. The problem is that it isn't even wrong. I'm only angry at Sapir-Whorf adherents when they believe that it makes some type of claim about empirical reality, and that claim is in contradiction with actual social scientific research.
Btw, do you have/recall any good anti-Derridean essays/books rants? I could only come up with Gasche's, but I'm trying to recall the more newspaper type ones I read
I'm not sure what you mean by "newspaper type." I remember when Derrida died in 2004 (I was in London at the time) and there were a lot of snotty obituaries. I don't think I'd read a book-length anti-Derrida rant, unless it was critiquing him from a feminist or other perspective which I shared to some degree.
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Date: 2007-09-28 01:03 am (UTC)Great minds think alike, because I spent all morning while engaged in gainful employment before I read your post thinking about how I hadn't mentioned postmodernity, and why I probably should. Not sure you mean the same thing I did, of course, but I wouldn't be surprised if you did.
or is that where you get too angry at Sapir-Whorf adherents?
The problem with Sapir-Whorf isn't that it's wrong somehow; it isn't. The problem is that it isn't even wrong. I'm only angry at Sapir-Whorf adherents when they believe that it makes some type of claim about empirical reality, and that claim is in contradiction with actual social scientific research.
Btw, do you have/recall any good anti-Derridean essays/books rants? I could only come up with Gasche's, but I'm trying to recall the more newspaper type ones I read
I'm not sure what you mean by "newspaper type." I remember when Derrida died in 2004 (I was in London at the time) and there were a lot of snotty obituaries. I don't think I'd read a book-length anti-Derrida rant, unless it was critiquing him from a feminist or other perspective which I shared to some degree.