Scott and dialectics

[Stephen Chilton]

Michael--Doesn't the mutual dependence you speak of go by another
name:  dialectical relations?  I can't speak for all of Scott's
posts, not having read them all or thoroughly, but in the instances
I've seen, Scott has used his method on folks whose position failed
to recognize both poles of the dialectic.  Whether his own position
is dialectical and thus avoids his own critique -- we can't judge
that until Scott defines HIS general stance clearly.  Scott?

Best,
Steve, carefully staying a moving target

On Thu, 7 Aug 1997 MSalter1@aol.com wrote:

>  
> Scott
>  
>  Well, that WOULD be a good idea, but for one problem. If we talk about a
>  "criticism field" we can easily see that Bourdieu is implicated in a
>  struggle along class lines to define what good theory is, which leaves
>  us powerless, since we are also implicated, to know whether he's full of
>  shit or not.
> 
> Michael;
> 
> This seems a good point to reflect upon Scott's strategy, here and on (some)
> other postings that have made the reflexive argument about theorists and
> their readership being situated by, implicated in,  and conditioned by the
> very object of their own theorising. Without irony "for himself" although of
> course ironically "in itself", Scott uses this as a universal strategy to
> insist upon non-particular particularism. The alternative implication - and
> way forward out of this reflexive contradiction affecting his own
> reductionism - is to intepret reflexivity is an ascending pathway to
> experiencing the mutual interdependence of both (mediated) particularism and
> (mediated) universalism. This, I think would represent an immanent criticism
> of a kind, (concerning the unmediated character of his latent universalism
> and patent particularism) although perhaps accepted as such by Scott if he
> still holds by his own conception of IC?.
> 
> Michael, whose trying to stick to some issues
> 

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