>Date: Sun, 15 May 2005 19:27:54 -0700 (PDT)
>From: Juergen Hahn <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: Cueros de vino - ( Juergen Hahn)
>
>Since I previously championed the theological
>interpretation I feel compelled to comment again on
>this item.
>
>I regret to say that I find the theory of DQ's
>allegorical slashing of the Eucharist absolutely
>unsupported by any evidence in the text. On the other
>hand, my previously expressed thesis of DQ's imaginary
>slaying of Pandafilando, allegorically combating the
>Original Sin of Pride as an antidote to Anselmo's
>prideful Curiositas, is indeed amply supported by the
>text, and accurately reflects Cervantes' intention.
>Thus, far from being a crypto-Protestant DQ in this
>fitful dream stage profiles himself on the contrary as
>a quite orthodox defender of mainstream Catholic
>doctrine. And that is obviously bad news for today's
>fanatical institutional critics.
>
>30 years after making this finding I still feel
>vindicated because I based it entirely on empirical
>textual evidence. Yet, far from feeling triumphant I
>feel, on the contrary, quite somber. If we do not
>watch our proof, are we not abetting the current
>decline of scholarship? I perceive with dismay that in
>the present postmodern scholarly atmosphere facts have
>been dogmatically declared non-existant, and truth as
>being as valid as non-truth, with all such differences
>usually being rendered indistinguishable with diffuse
>Foucaultian pseudo-philosophical double-talk, where
>even the original text under discussion matters
>little. And in this Orwellian rhetorical space any
>empirical evidence rates only as shabby "empirical
>bias." An interpretation is no longer valued for its
>self-sustaining proof but entirely for its usefulness
>for serving the ideological goals of a politically
>correct social improvement agenda. If we continue to
>abet this trend it bodes ill for all our intellectual
>institutions!
>
>Juergen Hahn
>CCSF
>
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