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...night section on the Civil War and Reconstruction figured to center on that week's reading, Eric Foner's analysis of the Republican Party, Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men: The Ideology of the Republican Party Before the Civil War. But the discussion quickly turned from Foner to Clifford Geertz, a cultural anthropologist that none of the dozen or so history concentrators assembled in a Mather classroom had ever heard...
None of us having ever heard of--much less read--Geertz, the discussion came to a fairly abrupt conclusion, all of us noting with interest that Geertz's influence showed not only in the work of Foner, a new-left historian, but also in the concept of ideology argued by the more conservative Bernard Bailyn. To the 12 of us, Geertz was a footnote--even though he is something more than an incidental theorist to the historians we are supposed to read...
...Interpretation of Cultures, by Clifford Geertz...
...patrol the American university have their own difficulties with Foucault. Leo Bersani of the French department at Berkeley eulogizes him as "our most brilliant philosopher of power," but Yale Historian Peter Gay dismisses him: "He doesn't do any research, he just goes on instinct." Anthropologist Clifford Geertz of the Princeton Institute for Advanced Study attempts a new classification: "He has become a kind of impossible object: a nonhistorical historian, an anti-humanistic human scientist. He is what any French savant seems to need to be these days: elusive...
...true that sociobiology is not capable of "predicting features of social organization." At the most, a theory should, as Clifford Geertz wrote, "anticipate" future development. You imply that Wilson prefers to leave his scientific theory "blurred." In fact, he welcomes "a serious discussion" of his ideas. But seriousness is not present in the manifestoes of either INCAR or Science for the People. Victoria Drake...