Professor Fletcher on Lacan’s anti-humanism:
“What you’re doing is like a spider: you’re making a very delicate web without any human reality in it … All this metaphysics is not necessary. The diagram was very interesting, but it doesn’t seem to have any connection with the reality of our actions, with eating, sexual intercourse, and so on.” (From The Structuralist Controversy. 80% into “The French Invasion.”)
And Professor Richard Macksey on the 1966 conference at which Jacques Derrida first came to America:
“You realized fairly early that Derrida was, well, now everyone uses this term, but even then, he was an intellectual terrorist.”
From The Structuralist Controversy. 90% into “The French Invasion.”
Related: Explaining Postmodernism: Skepticism and Socialism from Rousseau to Foucault.
Thanks for the new term. Now I have to get my business cards reprinted.