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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

                                                 September 12, 2012

From Scilabba's article on
Edward Said, in "What Are              SCIALABBA
Intellectuals Good For?"
(2009), p.208:

   "The acknowledgment of ignorance is
   the beginning of wisdom.  Perhaps             POLITICAL_AESTHETES
   the acknowledgment of political
   irrelevance will prove, for some at
   least, the beginning of political
   commitment."


Rich Yeselson, commenting on
Scilabba at "Crooked Timber",
August 4, 2009:                    http://crookedtimber.org/2009/08/04/avoiding-the-lasch-of-modernity/

   "I wonder for example if the
   brilliant, precocious Ezra Klein,
   one of the country's leading
   experts on health care, has ever
   publicly written the word
   'modernity'-- the lodestone that
   Scialabba has wrestled with lo           THE_NEW_INTELLECTUALS
   these many years-- and whether
   that is a bad thing.)"

   OTAKU_MODERN

                                   I've felt some periods of
                                   confusion that I thought
                                   might be pregnant confusion,
                                   the beginnings of a new
                                   direction.

                                       That promise has yet to be
                                       born out, as far as I can
                                       tell... but then it's not
                                       like I feel I'm in need of
                                       "new directions".





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