Posted on 03/07/2006 7:18:20 AM PST by Pharmboy
I have to look up this book.
BUMP, I'll have to look for that book.
Wow! After a certain amount of exposure to these ideas I guess that I should not be surprised.
What bothers me about the David/Socrates issue is that, at least when I was a grad student, you were expected to do the appropriate research to find out what David had in mind, what influences may have shaped his thought, what his goals were, and so forth.
I am guessing that the bare shoulder means homosexuality? Hmmm--there are lot of bare shoulders out there. They all mean the same thing?
Yet post-modernism means that the meaning is infinitely flexible according to culture. Which of course is not open to cultural interpretation.
McVey
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