Letters to a Young Conservative (The Art of Mentoring) by Dinesh D'Souza

Author:Dinesh D'Souza [D'Souza, Dinesh]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780786739097
Publisher: Basic Books
Published: 2009-04-28T07:00:00+00:00

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Who Are the Postmodernists?

Dear Chris,

I am not sure that it was the wisest idea to share my letter on feminism with the chairwoman of the Women’s Studies department. Isn’t this the woman who looks like Janet Reno, wears ridiculous hats, and comes to class with a big dog? She sounds quite terrifying. Now if I am found in a back alley mauled by a bloodhound or stabbed in the back with a hatpin, you will know where to direct the authorities.

You note that much of the humanities program—including the Women’s Studies department—is made up of “postmodernists.” Who, you ask, are the postmodernists? The postmodernists are the Truly Profound Ones. By way of illustration, let me offer this passage by literary theorist Geoffrey Hartman. “Because of the equivocal nature of language, even identities or homophones sound on: the sound of Sa is knotted with that of ca, as if the text were signaling its intention to bring Hegel, Saussure, and Freud together. Ca corresponds to the Freudian Id (‘Es’); and it may be that our only ‘savior absolu’ is that of a ca structured like the Sa-significant: a bacchic or Lacanian ‘primal process’ where only signifier-signifying signifiers exist.”

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