[PEN-L:2489] Re: Re: 1998 Bad Writing Contest

[Doug Henwood <dhenwood@xxxxxxxxx>]

Colin Danby wrote:

>Anyone who has taken the trouble to read _Capital_
>finds that it takes time and work because Marx had to
>develop a new set of concepts and a new language to
>describe them with.  As Doug notes, we accept that
>Kant and Hegel also wrote in difficult ways, and
>needed to.  We accept that it takes time, work, study
>to understand them.  Yet that right to be difficult,
>the right to write complex and innovative *theory,* is
>suddenly withdrawn for Judith Butler.

....whose first book, it should be noted, was on Hegel. So she's got an excuse!

Doug