[lbo-talk] Conversation with Derrida

[Eubulides]

On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 4:04 PM, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
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> On Nov 4, 2009, at 6:42 PM, Chris Doss wrote:
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>> Because if you're the kind of person who believes in "reason" (or science,
>> or the good, or whatever) as the Salvation of Humanity, the notion that it
>> is rooted in the nonrational (or the non-good, or non-whatever) is
>> terrifying, because it points to the irrationality of your own belief.
>
> Why does historicizing something - taking it out of the realm of timeless
> nature and inserting it into social processes - render it "irrational"?
>
> Doug

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It doesn't, necessarily. One problem is underdetermination and the
problematizing of the truth-evidence/truth-proof dynamic; the fantasy
of the one true theory of the world. The fantasy of the epistemic
overcomeability of uncertainty, plurality and their relations to the
production and distribution of authority; power/knowledge and all
that.

Ian