Noting what I experience as analytic gaps in Mooney texts, I feel I am noting not failures but aspects of the book's identity. . . .Unintentionally hilarious, intentionally hilarious, or further evidence of disciplinary DOOM?
Your call.
Wednesday, August 25, 2010
Hilarious (?) line from book review
I came across this while browsing the recent posts to Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, which, as I've mentioned before, is on the whole a fabulous resource, especially for those of us who spend most of their research time working through journals rather than books. The book under review is by one Edward Mooney. And the reviewer writes:
Your call.
Your call.
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Disciplinary doom, no question -- it's a winner: the book has a porous identity, which the reviewer feels, i.e. senses; no thinking involved.
(verification word - abliti, which i feel the reviewer had very littel of)
That entire review is odd, and I don't know whether to attribute it to the reviewer, to the book being reviewed, or both.
Agree Anon 11:06 -- it is a bizarre book review. I don't know what to make of it at all but I'd guess that both are religious folk.
I'd comment, but I can't string the words together in a manner that doesn't ass-plohde my gulliver.
big cock; small world.
Bizarre. For a brief minute there I thought this was a book by Ed *M.* Mooney, of Duke (Renaissance phil. guy, died in 2008, I think). And I thought to myself: Is Ed Mooney writing books from BEYOND THE GRAVE?
Because that would be a sign of DOOM, if the dead were writing books, even crappy ones.
Perhaps the people at NDPR feel the need to pander to the large segment of our discipline that produces and enjoys reading shitty philosophy. Thanks for the daily dose of doom.
Sweet! Next time a commentator or referee nails my ass to the wall, I know just how to respond: "What you experience as gaps in my argument are not failures but aspects of my identity ..."
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