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Re: Socialist Register



On 5/23/06, Carrol Cox <cbcox@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I remain an admirer, however, of Geras's magnificent destruction of
Laclau & Mouffe.

Although just reading the first page of Laclau and Mouffe's book did it for me. Sucha buncha pretentious claptrap. Any conceptual system is "essentialist" in that it privileges the cognitive over all other dimensions. So any 'critique of essentialism' is hoist on its own petard. L&M tried to disguise their own incarceration in the prison house of language by the use of syntax and vocabulary that was 12 times more difficult than what they were actually saying.

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