Review : Learn to Write Badly : How to Succeed in the Social Sciences
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Bad writing prospers in the humanities and social sciences, so we are spoilt for examples. In one famous case, Martha Nussbaum rounded on Judith Butler for her obscurity, arguing it was an insidious form of stylistic collaboration with the power structures targeted by her writings. Nussbaum’s review, ‘The Professor of Parody,’ raised the profile of a sentence already legendary as a result of Butler winning the Bad Writing Contest held by the journal Philosophy and Literature. Loosing a sentence from its contextual mooring is always risky, but this millefeuille of complexity is hard to swallow:
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