Just Being Difficult?: Academic Writing in the Public Arena (Cultural Memory in the Present)
"This collection is a remarkable and rational contribution to a passionate contemporary debate. Is academic writing unjustifiably obscure? The claim has been widely made in media ranging from theWall Street JournaltoThe New RepublicandPhilosophy and Literature.Just Being Difficult?offers a thoughtful, generally unpolemical, stimulating, and learned series of analyses of the claim, of those its targets, and of the entire question of how critical writing relates to its intended public and the audiences beyond it." —Richard Terdiman,University of California, Santa Cruz