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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Wild Gazebo" data-source="post: 2279724" data-attributes="member: 24413">edit:  Wayside:Hey, no problem.  I think we all wish we had a type of intellectual shorthand that projected our understanding (as opposed to our thoughts) more quickly and accurately than written or verbal communication.  And yes, that is the major malfunction of genre theory--and why I feel new genre theory will eventually eclipse compostion and rhetoric and move more directly into literature.  If you are truely interested in the "thisness of things in general" and are bored with Plato and his sycophants, and the contextual placement of structualism, post-structualism, and to an extent post-modernism (cringe...in the sense of reduction of ideology) take a tip-toe through Heidegger's work...and really any other existentialist based philosophers who deal with 'reality'...but Heidegger especially.  I feel the development of the thingliness of things in regard to self (and the thingliness of self <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />) to be a breath of fresh air compared to the concerns of academics hell bent on classification and pidgeonholing.  Though, more than likely you have already taken a gander.  Probably, MORE than, more than likely now that I think about it.As for Joshua, I'm not sure what line you are refering to...Gadamer?!  I must be off kilter.  Sure he back-peddled a bit but I think everybody does a bit of that in a competitive discusion.  I think he would have significant problems dealing with hermeneutics in general--let alone the breadth that Derrida took it (I'm a bit of a structuralist nut--I've been studying new genre for the last couple of years) but I think I can turn him around with some gentle persuasion...heehehehhehehe.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Nice talkin' ta ya.</blockquote>

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