Paglia, Postmodern and Flight from Complexity

Charles Brown CharlesB at cncl.ci.detroit.mi.us
Fri Jan 25 14:30:06 PST 2002


Paglia, Postmodern and Flight from Complexity

"Ian Murray" <seamus2001 at attbi.com>

- ----- Original Message ----- From: "Charles Brown" <CharlesB at cncl.ci.detroit.mi.us>
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> In general, I would say that Derrida and postmods are neo-Kantians,
not unlike the empiro-critics that Lenin critiqued in _Materialism and Empirio-Criticism_, although Lenin's argument has some complexities, so you might have trouble treating it as simplistically as your discussion here :>). The postmods are involved in a flight from materialism.
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Nah. More like striking a different path from reductionism and monism and 'the one true theory of reality and society.'

Ian

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CB: What you say is consistent with what I say in part. Kantianism is dualism, so the postmods moving to dualism is indeed a different path from monism. "Reductionism" is merely a pejorative for "materialism" in this case.

"The one true theory of reality and society" is typical liberal, mocking cant. Leaves one in a state of postie wishywashiness, unable to do anything to change the world, because nothing is true. Action needs a presumption that something is true to base one's action.

Marxism is the _best_ theory of reality and society in the year 2002, however the Marxist theory of knowledge, as explained by Engels and Lenin, does not claim any scientific theory , including Marxism, is absolute truth, rather that knowledge develops over time.



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