From: "Mina Kumar" <wejazzjune at hotmail.com>
> damn, y'all, this one-liner is my most controversial post!
>
> anyway, why is it so bizarre to think that a serious event could
undermine
> the credibility of a philosophy? far from being bizarre, it makes
perfect
> sense to say, hey, here is a serious event, does it do any damage to
the
> theor(ies) we are using to understand the world, or do our
theor(ies) hold
> up in their ability to offer satisfying (to us!) explanations of
these
> events. I mean, then he goes on to do this very thing, to say, hey
> postmodernism holds up pretty well as method of inquiry into 9/11.
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I suspect pomo's will feel no more undermined regarding their strategies for rendering socio-nature intelligible than Christianity did after the Lisbon earthquake, the French Revolution, the Holocaust etc. or Muslims feel about the loss of Sicily and the Iran-Iraq war.
Ian