Re: MD pragmatism

From: Scott Roberts (jse885@ilhawaii.net)
Date: Sat May 18 2002 - 07:00:14 BST


Matt, 3WD,

As I mentioned in an earlier post, although I object to Rorty's
secularism (which prevents him from seeing the mystics as the original
deconstructionists), I find Rorty as a postmodern spokesman quite
helpful. A lot of what is said on this list, like the "map is not the
terrain" business, is SOM, and reading Rorty is a good cure for that.
There is no terrain. It's maps all the way down.

- Scott

Matt the Enraged Endorphin wrote:

> 3WD,
>
> As it happens I've been reading nothing else but Rorty and
> Rorty-related-material of late (to the detriment of my classes;-), but
> the conclusion I am being pushed towards is that Rorty and Pirsig do not
> cohere very well. You can glue them together, but, when you take the
> pure strain of both, the fit works about as well as oil and water.

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