Here are some of the materials I mentioned in class:
(1) Martha Nussbaum's smashing attack on Judith Butler was published in the New Republic on 22 February 1999, and is online: http://www.akad.se/Nussbaum.pdf . This is a good example of how postmodernists annoy social activists. (2) Derrida's
attempted defence of his friend Paul de Man (who wrote anti-semitic articles in
the early 1940s) is also online. It appeared as an article entitled (in typical
Derrida annoying fashion), 'Like the Sound of the Sea Deep Within a Shell: Paul
de Man's War', Critical Inquiry 14 (1988), 590-652 =
http://www.jstor.org/stable/1343706
(3) A very good
article about Allan Bloom is Fred Matthews, ‘The Attack on “Historicism”:
Allan Bloom’s Indictment of Contemporary American Historical Scholarship’,
Amer.Hist.Rev., 95 (1990), 429-447 = http://www.jstor.org/stable/2163758
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