Mixing serious intent with undisciplined language is deliberate disciplinary critique

Evidence

To the question—but are we to look for such serious implications in such undisciplined language?—the answer is yes. To introduce the nonserious, to welcome the margins of the production of philosophic discourse—that is the intent of this disciplinary critique. — Donna Landry and Gerald MacLean, The Spivak Reader, 787

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Citational techniques can simultaneously be serious argument and deliberate play — Donna Landry and Gerald MacLean, The Spivak Reader: Selected Works of…, 783; Productive intellectual conflict requires disciplined manners of dialogic engagement — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 129; Polemical intent can coexist with rigorous textual scholarship — Norman Daniel, Islam and the West, 1700 (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• Academic writing need not sacrifice passion for supposed neutrality #corroborates (0.78)
• Productive intellectual conflict requires disciplined manners of dialogic engagement #qualifies (0.75) — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 129
• Polemical intent can coexist with rigorous textual scholarship #complicates (0.72) — Norman Daniel, Islam and the West, 1700
• Philosophical language must interweave expression and communication, neither reducible to the other #corroborates (0.72) — Dirk Braunstein, Adorno’s Critique of Political Economy, 1014