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To: dirtboy

Modern philosophy is an intellectual desert. Postmodernism has been deconstructed to the point of empty parlor room word games.

I used to think that Postmodernism might be fading away, but what could come after such vapidness?

Maybe this is the start of a new beginning.


4 posted on 03/24/2013 9:01:57 AM PDT by Shadow44
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To: Shadow44

The principal target of postmodernism was science, at least as perceived by scientists. With titles like “We Have Never Been Modern”, “Against Reason”, and “The Truth about THE TRUTH”, the pomo movement sought to demolish every sort of certainty, including in particular scientific certainty.

In the process it elevated premodern points of view, such as animism, to equal status, if anything had any status in this fundamentally nihilistic philosophy. It was great fun, though.


23 posted on 03/24/2013 12:11:16 PM PDT by dr_lew
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