{"id":162,"date":"2006-01-20T07:44:00","date_gmt":"2006-01-20T07:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/?p=162"},"modified":"2006-01-20T07:44:00","modified_gmt":"2006-01-20T07:44:00","slug":"from-language-log","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/?p=162","title":{"rendered":"from Language Log"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In <a href=\"http:\/\/itre.cis.upenn.edu\/~myl\/languagelog\/archives\/002771.html\">a guest rant<\/a> on the every-day-more-essential Language Log, Paul Kay contributes this lovely bit of skewering:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In &#8220;deconstructing&#8221; all historical texts and arguing that they merely express the power of the interests their authors represent, postmodernists <b>apotheosize the obstacles to objectivity<\/b> rather than combating them. [Michiko Kakutani] cites in this connection an elegant line of Stanley Fish&#8217;s: &#8220;the death of objectivity &#8216;relieves me of the obligation to be right&#8217;; &#8230; it &#8216;demands only that I be interesting.'&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a guest rant on the every-day-more-essential Language Log, Paul Kay contributes this lovely bit of skewering: In &#8220;deconstructing&#8221; all historical texts and arguing that they merely express the power of the interests their authors represent, postmodernists apotheosize the obstacles to objectivity rather than combating them. [Michiko Kakutani] cites in this connection an elegant line [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}