[WikiEN-l] Neutral point of view

[Carl Beckhorn]

On Sun, Apr 13, 2008 at 07:47:58PM -0400, WJhonson at aol.com wrote:
> Essentially the same logic applies to your above statement.
> "Neutral point-of-view" is not a point-of-view, it is the absence of any  
> point-of-view.

I don't think there is much support in contempory critical theory for 
the idea that a writer can write without presenting a point of view, or 
that a reader can read without a point of view.  Trying to pretend that 
we have no point of view will only make us blind to our own viewpoint.

 - Carl

--

  It is useful to make the following three observations about language 
  games. The first is that their rules do not carry within themselves 
  their own legitimation, but are the object of a contract, explicit or 
  not, between players (which is not to say that the players invent the 
  rules). The second is that if there are no rules, there is no game, 
  that even an infinitesimal modification of one rule alters the nature 
  of the game, that a “move” or utterance that does not satisfy the 
  rules does not belong to the game they define. The third remark is 
  suggested by what has just been said: every utterance should be thought 
  of as a “move” in a game.

    Jean-François Lyotard, The Postmodern Condition