"Post-Modernism"

Sam Pawlett rsp at uniserve.com
Fri Nov 5 13:32:12 PST 1999


I'm thinking about maybe doing an article on postmodernism/structuralism, mostly philosophy and politics. Who would be the major thinkers/themes? Just so I don't leave anything important out.

precursors: guilty parties:Lyotard Critics:

G.Madison C.Norris Nietszche Lacan A.Callinicos Heidegger Rorty S.Haack Hegel Foucault M.Devitt Kafka Deleuze&Guatteri J.Petras Husserl Laclau/Mouffe A.Macintyre Gadamer Levinas Habermas R.Musil Derrida P.Dews D.Davidson F.Jameson(?) D.Stove W.V. Quine Saussre T.Frank T.Kuhn J.Butler P.Feyerabend D.McCloskey(?) Frankfurt School R.Barthes M. de Sade

J.Sallis Themes: denial of objective truth denial of objective reality denial of objectivity socio-historical determination of all knowledge/truth theories of subjectivity&self critiques of weberian/western rationality critiques of Eurocentrism cultural relativism(no cross-cultural truths) conceptual relativity critiques of 'meta-narratives', theories of total knowledge interpretation all the way down critique of scientism, economism,classicism; reductionism focus on ethnicity, sexual orientation

Sam Pawlett



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