The new anti-Americanism (статья Кимбалла в New Criterion)

[borislvin]

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Structuralism was not an important intellectual development. Neither was deconstruction, or post-colonialism, or new historicism, the other academic fads to which Eakin genuflects. One and all they were—they continue to be—intellectual con-games, utterly void of merit except as tools of obfuscation and intellectual corruption. (They can also help in the campaign to obtain tenure, but that is a separate matter.)
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Unfortunately, preposterousness has never been a barrier to effectiveness. There are plenty of ideas that are fatuous, wrongheaded, or simply ridiculous that nevertheless have a great and baneful influence on the world.

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[zanuda.livejournal.com]

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...that the policies of the Reagan administration brought about the collapse of the Soviet Union—must be denied at every turn. So it is business as usual when Hardt and Negri solemnly assure us that “the United States did not defeat the socialist enemy” in the Cold War; rather “The Soviet Union collapsed under the burden of its own internal contradictions.”
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Êàê íå ñìåøíî, ÿ òàêè ñîãëàñåí çäåñü, ÷òî The Soviet Union collapsed under the burden of its own internal contradictions, à ðåéãàíîâñêàÿ ïîëèòèêà è âîîáùå õîëîäíàÿ âîéíà îñîáåííîãî âëèÿíèÿ çäåñü íå èìåëè.

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ß âîò ñ ýòèì íå ñîãëàñåí ñîâñåì. Ïî-ìîåìó, ñòðóêòóðàëèçì èìåííî ÷òî áûë an important intellectual development.