I'd forgotten that aspect of academia. When I was at Hopkins they
used to invite speakers in order to skewer them in the questions
period. Only two escaped uunscathed--Isaiah Berlin and Marshall
MacLuhan. Couldn't lay a glove on them.
At 11:10 AM 11/24/2007, you wrote:
>Ah, of course, & over Jesus, too?
>
>Doug
>On 23-Nov-07, at 4:15 PM, Peter Cudmore wrote:
>
>>I figure that it must be a rhetorical claim: Lacan being notoriously dense,
>>Eagleton, by claiming to be able to put his finger on Lacan's originality,
>>proclaims mastery over him.
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