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Of course Eco is both leftist and a professional literatus. But he happens to be one who enjoys pricking his colleagues' pomposity.
On post-Derrida criticism:
I wasn't actually referring to the man himself as the endless dreary PhD dissertations and the publish-or-perish articles compelled from junior faculty. The criticism would be just as valid if the political game were right of center, although in that case Tolkien might not be regarded as quite so radioactive.
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