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Simon Scarrow
Ape
Uruguay
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 Posted - 28 October 2009 : 8:29:09 PM
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I'm 'enjoying' this quite a bit. But then I tend to agree with Francis Wheen in terms of what gets his goat. The brief tour through the voodoo economics of Reagan and Thatcher made me angry (again), and the roasting Wheen gives to Post Modernism is richly deserved. My only gripe is that he rather overdoes it and ropes Post-structuralism into the same den of thieves, which is a little unfair. Far from morphing into PM, as WHeen has it, PS managed to retain its integrity and actually offered a fairly effective critique of the trendy theorists who retreated into wholsescale subjectivity after the failures of 1968. Be interesting to see how the rest of the book pans out. I will report back when done. So far I would definitely bung this one on any person's to read list.
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How Mumbo Jumbo conquered the World
