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What a bore! Not to speak for Miller, the name-calling I recall was a reference to Derrida's stature in the form of a junior high school analogy. The point about you Willett is that you assume that you always know the difference between truth and fiction and you are contemptuous of every one is still undecided. I happen to like fiction because I think it is the form in which truth is likely to reside. I've read your long posts denouncing Lacan and post-structuralism but somehow remained unconvinced. Perhaps because I am ignorant, but in that case you have failed to enlighten me. Your little disquisition about Saussure's failings for example, was a)nothing new or interesting, b) dependent on a characture of recent intellectual history--more specifically, an inability or unwillingness to contextualize post-structuralism with any sympathy so as to see what matters in Lacan's thought and what doesn't. But really, that's beside the point, which, for me,now, is your attitude. What your posts communicate to me is that you are very angry something and that you think you have some positive knowledge of Greek and Latin literature that the rest of us don't, disrespect, and won't compensate for, not that you care to share information about Spenser or renaissance literature. I'm sure you know more Greek than I. I'm not, however, inclined to depend on you when I have a question. There are others on this list, I'd trust first, and I'm tired of your invective. Bye. On Mon, 13 Nov 2000 13:44:26 +0900 "Steven J. Willett" <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > > > On 12 Nov 2000, at 23:13, David Lee Miller wrote: > > > I would like to object to Stephen Willett's recent post. He seems at times > > to confuse fiction with philosophy, but I don't mind that. It's when he > > confuses name-calling with philosophy that I want to call a time-out. > > What name, what calling? Unless the academic world in US English > departments has become more closed than I last saw it, opinions > about the value of postmodernist philosophers are still permissible. I > haven't noticed the slightest tick from Prof. Miller when outrageously > false statements appear on the list. One might attribute that to > ignorance of the difference between truth and fiction, a far more > serious liability than the one attributed to me. > > > > > ============================================== > Steven J. Willett > University of Shizuoka, Hamamatsu Campus > 2-3 Nunohashi 3-chome, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan 432-8012 > Voice and Fax: (053) 457-4514 > Japan email: [log in to unmask] > US email: [log in to unmask] ---------------------- Marshall Grossman [log in to unmask] %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%