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From: Walt Stein <stein@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1998 21:38:25 -0600
Actually, the signature line was mine, although it seems to have gotten
attached to another poster...for which I am sorry. And, yes, it is Camille
Paglia, quoting from one of her columns in Salon Online.
Perhaps you should not avoid her writings like the plague. She consistently
writes of Foucault as if he were the single most pernicious writer/thinker
of the century, which figures, since she is a splendid inheritor of the
gender-essentialist critics of the fifties like Norman O. Brown. Why do I
read her and enjoy her so much, even while I consider Foucault's work the
most fruitful and valuable I have read? Well..wasn't it Foucault who said
that we cannot escape Hegel? I mean, if you looked up antithesis in a
Foucault dictionary, you'd most likely find a picture of Camille Paglia.
>P.S. Paglia probably refers to Camille Paglia. I avoid her writings
>like the plague, but perhaps shouldn't. As for her remark on Clinton it
>is funny but fails to meet the challenge of Clinton's Alzumenschliches
>behavior.
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"Clinton's crimes are incestuous: He makes the whole world his family and
then seduces and pollutes it, person by person"--Paglia