[lbo-talk] Texas school board drops Jefferson, adds Calvin

[Miles Jackson]

Ted Winslow wrote:
> Doug Henwood wrote:
> 
> 
>> Given the horrified reactions of so many to "postmodernism" - which
>> I thought had been getting obsolete, but evidently not - I don't
>> get this claim. It seems to make lots of people, mainstream and
>> Marxist, very uncomfortable. And I'm not really sure to whom this
>> vague word is supposed to apply - Foucault? He certainly didn't
>> avoid dangerous questions about madness, incarceration, sex.
>> Butler? Ditto. Etc.
> 
> 
> But they rule out any possibility of true answers to these questions,
> though this doesn't stop them from treating their own answers as true
> in a sense inconsistent with this.

I cannot imagine how someone who has actually read Foucault or Butler 
and considered their arguments in any detail would attribute this 
position to them.  Could you provide some relevant passages from these 
authors that demonstrate that they "rule out any possibility of true 
answers"?

Miles