[New-Poetry] Van Doren and Frost

[Bob Grumman]

> From: "Bob Grumman" <bobgrumman at nut-n-but.net>
>
>>> you feel the same way about what authors like Sobel do?
>>
>> I don't know what Sobel lectures on.  Is he the guy that got the parody 
>> into a sociology magazine?
>
> No, that was Alan Sokal, Bob.  The book that he and Bricomart wrote after 
> that -- _Intellectual Impostures_, but given a blander title when it was 
> published in the US -- is more interesting.  Alternate chapters ravaging 
> post-modernism (with the exception of Foucault) and on the epistimology of 
> science.  (I found the later more intelligible.)
>
> There's an interesting subtext to it -- American Left activist rage at the 
> futility of merely intellectualised politics.  Which may be why Foucault 
> gets off lightly -- Chomsky also allows Foucault as the only one of that 
> pack of French intellectuals that he can stand.
>
> Robin Hamilton


Ah, so.  Which means that I don't know who Sobel is.

Hey, glad to see your post, Robin!  Where have you been!?  I really truly 
have thought of you more than once in the past couple of months but been too 
lazy to e.mail you.

--Bob