[Discussion] Wittgenstein's......

[hpaksoy@ttacs.ttu.edu]

Meaning, we are condemned to read the same? =20

Quoting laurence raw <l_rawjalaurence@yahoo.com>:

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>  Plus =E7a change, c'est la meme chose.  I think much=20
the same thing was said
> about "Ulysses" when it first appeared nearly eighty=20
years ago ...
>   hpaksoy@ttacs.ttu.edu wrote: Wittgenstein's Curse=20
> by Jay Tolson=20
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> It's easy to go on about how bad most academic=20
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> is these days, and how it became so during the past=20
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> or 40 years. Curmudgeonly journalists have been=20
> pouncing on prof-prose at least since the days of H.=20
L.=20
> Mencken. But now high sport is made of the subject=20
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> within the academy. One academic journal awards=20
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> prizes in a Bad Writing Contest, causing pain and=20
> sometimes anger among the unwitting winners. Scholars=20
> agonize about the problem, too. Russell Jacoby, for=20
> one, links it to the disappearance of the great=20
public=20
> intellectuals who once enriched the larger culture.=20
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