Friday, December 03, 2004
(8:37 AM) | Adam Kotsko:
Friday Afternoon Confessional: Blog-related
I confess the following:
- In my post this week about "conservatives in the academy," my point in citing the intellectual differences attendant upon "identity theology" was to illustrate that there was, in absolute terms, plenty of intellectual diversity -- it just wasn't the kind of diversity that conservative pundits want to see ("I think taxes should be cut by 20%!" "Well, I think they should be cut by 30%!"). I was then drawn into a vortex of defending identity theology as such, which I never really intended to do.
(If anyone is curious about what my "real opinion" of identity theology is, here you go: I think it's wonderful that academic theology is open to a broader variety of ethnic groups and sexualities. My only concern is that theology properly-so-called seems to me to exist at a "philosophical" level of discourse, whereas much of the identity theology that I've seen exists at more of a "sociological" level -- describing the struggles of a particular group, etc. I think more work needs to be done demonstrating the connection between the two levels and addressing the question of how those sociological facts can be brought into relation with something like "the universal," which I do not think is simply equivalent to "white straight male experience," even if white straight males have most often had the privileges associated with participation in a universal. So now everyone can hate me.)
- I haven't gotten any submissions for St. Paul week. I can do some more "Epistle to the Americans" on Monday, but that's basically all I've got -- the rest is up to you, dear readers!
- I haven't been reading or commenting on other blogs very much lately, but whenever I have, I've always managed to come up with a post that I never would have come up with otherwise. (Example: "Conservatives in the Academy.")
- Someone asked me to delete my comment on Bill Mantis's post in which I cursed out Blogger's unreliability, and I told the person off, but I still deleted it.
- I'm really frustrated with Blogger's unreliability lately.
