.
It would be a pity if Mr Peckitt retired again from the fray. Any
discussion can benefit from people with some training in philosophy and
some facility in expressing thoughts. One should bear in mind that very
few people (in the street, on the bus, in the pub, on this list, or even
in academic journals) have the facility to write in coherent English what
they would like to communicate. The frustration arising from
this 'expression gap' causes a lot of the smoke and flames in web
discussion, and also in academic debate.
One should not take the abuse too personally, nor take one's own written
contribution too seriously! I believe it's a fundamental of Lit.Crit.,
that the text is constructed in the reader's mind - regardless of what the
author actually wrote on paper or screen. The author is the last person to
know what he or she means. I'm sure Foucault said something like this. Or
the opposite. (Or both).
It's also good for academics and researchers to hear from time to time how
much they (we) are feared and hated by people who don't do research, and
who don't know how research is done, but who believe that their lives and
well-being are often threatened by something called research. That is a
communication which, while neither very welcome nor very well informed,
should be given serious attention.
m99m
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