[New-Poetry] Van Doren and Frost

[Robin Hamilton]

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