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Self refuting pillar of postmodernism
One of the defining tenets of posmodernism is "incredulity towards meta narratives". However, with its ubiquitous emphasis on the oppression of power structures and the consequent victim mentality ...
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Why is Nietzsche associated with postmodernism?
This is not the first commentary in which I have seen Nietzsche associated with postmodernism. I see daylight between him and the core ideas of postmodernism, as represented by the likes of Derrida, ...
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What are the relationships between Foucault's medical gaze, scientific investigation, and Buddhist detachment?
From this note from a clinical psychologist, the Foucault's gaze is described as:
... with this powerful gaze the physician could penetrate illusion and see through to the underlying reality, that ...
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Is there no basis for differentiating a personal from a historical narrative?
Is there no basis for differentiating a personal from a historical narrative? My narrative is a mess, so I'd like to get to grips with the question, ideally as it links to literature. Who in ...
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Would Carl Jung be considered a postmodernist?
All of Jung's colleagues were modernists, primarily because postmodernism wasn't around yet; they were all Freudian, and, as such, followed the Oedipal grand narrative. Jung, however, had a completely ...
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Looking for a book to compliment Zammito and Mohanty in understanding the ethos of post positivistic realism
There are two books which I consider to be indispensable to an understanding of
contemporary western culture’s post-truth/alternative facts (scientific and cultural post modernism/structuralism/...
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What does Latour mean by (-/non/post/)modernism?
There is a summary on wikipedia of We Have Never Been Modern which says
Latour viewed modernism as an era that believed it had annulled the entire past in its wake.[29] He presented the antimodern ...
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Was Jan Smuts the father of Holism?
With reference:
Jan C. Smuts, Holism and Evolution
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Smuts
With what I've found so far it seems he has had an enormous impact on the world that we have, so:
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What does a postmodernist mean by us having "no ‘essence’" and being ‘in process’? [closed]
Understand Postmodernism: A Teach Yourself Guide. Glenn Ward BA in fine art (painting), University of Plymouth, 1990; MA in Visual Culture, Bath Spa University, 1992; PhD in film studies, University ...
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In comparing Existentialism with Postmodernism, what do 'process', 'essence', 'authenticity' mean?
Understand Postmodernism: A Teach Yourself Guide. Glenn Ward BA in fine art (painting), University of Plymouth, 1990; MA in Visual Culture, Bath Spa University, 1992; PhD in film studies, University ...
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Why did Baudrillard regard 'terrorism as fashion and the media'?
Understand Postmodernism: A Teach Yourself Guide. Glenn Ward BA in fine art (painting), University of Plymouth, 1990; MA in Visual Culture, Bath Spa University, 1992; PhD in film studies, University ...
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In Postmodernism, why is irony "the only option"?
Understand Postmodernism: A Teach Yourself Guide. Glenn Ward BA in fine art (painting), University of Plymouth, 1990; MA in Visual Culture, Bath Spa University, 1992; PhD in film studies, University ...
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Ought someone reading philosophy for fun skip obscurantist primary sources? [closed]
I can understand why tenured philosophy professors specializing in some obscurantist must read primary sources. For those who aren't, is it practical and wise to forgo primary sources written by ...
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Are obscurantists unethically self-indulgent, uncharitable in not writing more readably? [closed]
Is it rational or levelheaded to regard obscurantists as brash, unprincipled, and self-centered? That's how I feel when I try to read their writing.
I refer only to those obscurantists who can, but ...
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How do structuralism and post-structuralism change the way I read a novel?
I am not from a literature background and have very limited ideas about structuralism and post-structuralism.
From a naive point of view, these ideas say that we can interpret the text as we want ...
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From a postmodernist perspective, can societies even change, or exist at all?
While I understand that postmodernism has no set definition, it is my understanding that a generally foundational belief or view of postmodernists is the assertion that one's beliefs, views, truths, ...
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Metaphysical substrate and the Judeo-Christian legacy
Is the idea of a metaphysical substrate, of stories, meaningful? I have been listening to some talks by Jordan Peterson, and it seems he posits this idea of a metaphysical substrate as counterpoint to ...
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Does the postmodern rejection of "Grand Narratives" have anything to do with "First Principles" argumentation?
I've developed a recent interest in the distinction between "data-driven" argumentation and argumentation in the context of "First Principles", or a priori starting points.
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Is the "blind men and an elephant" illustration self-refuting?
I have periodically encountered the illustration of a group of blind men and an elephant - basically, each man feels a different part of the elephant and concludes that the elephant is a different ...
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Is there a relation between postmodernism and Asian philosophies?
As an Asian, I see that postmodernism and Taoism and Buddhism all share a similar idea: the truth cannot be grasped. Is there any relation between postmodernism and Asian philosophies? Can Laozi and ...
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What are the differences between postmodernism, post-structuralism and deconstruction?
I know they can be used interchangeably, but in the spirit of structuralism, what are the differences between them?
From Postmodernism - Wikipedia, I think that postmodernism and post-structuralism ...
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Foucault and Derrida on spiritual liberation
Apart from his analysis of truth and power, when Foucault says...
...truth isn’t the reward of free spirits, the child of protracted
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Does postmodernism entail nihilism?
Postmodernism characterizes mainly as the view that there's no objective truth, no objective moral values, and that logic and reason are socially constructed concepts. These seem to me to be ...
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What does Foucault mean by "regime of truth" and "discursive formation"?
I would like to clarify what Foucault means by "regime of truth", "discursive formation" and possibly related terms such as "truth game", "enunciative system".
Here is my guess from looking at some ...
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What is the "orthodox" post-modernism?
Can anybody please explain what "orthodox" postmodernism is? Does it mean the most prevalent definition of post-modernism, i.e. what most people understand to be post-modernism?
I encountered it in ...
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Can postmodernism conclude we should use philosophy/science only as tools to help us live better, rather than search for the nature of the universe?
A long title.
Postmodernism is known for its post-truth ideas, that there's no objective truth that we can even wish to discover, or that it even matter. An idea came to me - if we do take a ...
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Why magical thinking is still present to this day?
Despite all the bad reputation and hatred to people that have any kind of magical thinking (i.e. believes in magic, any kind), this ideology still very present in society these days, day that seems ...
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How come nihilism is so popular today?
I've been trying to attack this question (or more precisely, come up with an answer to that fact) for some time now, but after a while of research I'm suddenly not so sure of the reason the situation ...
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Is there a name for gradual dissolution of the boundaries between two objects or identities?
The basis for it is a mathematical principal of a limit, wherein a mathematical object is defined as a value or geometric construct that arises from indefinitely approaching but never actually ...
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What is postanalytic philosophy?
I came across a reference to the postanalytic philosophy today, and I'm wondering what exactly that is. Is it related (if not it itself) to postmodern philosophy? What are the main ideas behind it? ...
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What are the benefits of Jean-François Lyotard's "little narratives"?
Jean-François Lyotard's "little narratives", which he explains in The Postmodern Condition, are often criticized for being relative, for destabilizing truth and authority etc. But what are the ...
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Does Sokal & Bricmont's book offer proof of the vacuity of Post-Modernism? Can any schools of Philosophy be proven to be pure Sophistry?
Is Sokal & Bricmont's lambasting of Post-Modern Intellectuals proof of the vacuity of Post-Modernism?
Does this offer us a hope at proving that some schools of Philosophy can be proven to be pure ...
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Implication of Rorty's concession to Ramberg that true statements "get things right"?
Richard Rorty (1932-2008) was the paradigmatic deflationist re the concept “truth.” He was an epistemic naturalist and historicist, an instrumental pragmatist, anti-realist/essentialist, and ...
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Has, as Richard Rorty hoped, solidarity successfully replaced objective truth as the aim of cognition?
It seems relatively clear that Richard Rorty's postmodern project of eliminating "objective Truth" as something that inquiry and cognition can (reasonably?) hope to attain, or aim for, has to a large ...
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What are the relations between Neoliberalism and Postmodernism?
The following passage surprised me, not only because it has neoliberals in place of postmodernists, but also because it describes everything I see as a consequence of so-called "Postmodernism" (or ...
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Why Chomsky called postmodernist ideas "absurdities" when related to the "Third World"?
What did Chomsky meant, when referring to the "Third World" in this passage (video, transcription):
It's all very inflated, you know a lot of prestige and so on – it
has a terrible effect in the ...
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Postmodernism advocates are Right-wing or just can't see its effects against the Left? [closed]
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What I have here is a suspicion, actually shared by a number of important intellectuals and other less known people, thus not exactly a 'personal ...
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Do postmodernists insist that "laws of physics" are "mere social conventions"? Or not anymore?
Alan Sokal once wrote:
Fair enough: anyone who believes that the laws of physics are mere
social conventions is invited to try transgressing those conventions
from the windows of my apartment. (...
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Who said postmodernism is a Right-wing philosophy?
The vast majority of texts I've read (probably all of them) link postmodernism with the Left-wing in politics. However, postmodernism attacks modern science, which was/is the main force against ...
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What is the consensus on metaphysical innocence of social construction (2N2C)?
What is the consensus about 2N2C? Is there any broad consensus on its truth, or utility?
That's the fun abbreviated title of Boyd's No Non Causal Contribution (double N, double C) thesis, see ...
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Why so much hate for postmodernism?
There is a lot of hate for postmodernism on YouTube. Is this hate justified? Or is it just becuase postmodernism makes people uncomfortable. I guess what I am asking is "does postmodernism have any ...
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"Reality is a social construct" -- fair characterization or not?
This is something else I've wondered about. There seem to be these fierce online debates and movements that center around various questions of the validity of so called "social justice" issues which ...
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How, if at all, has the concept of rhetoric mutated during post-modernity?
How, if at all, has the concept of rhetoric mutated during post-modernity?
I gather than it ('rhetoric') began its life, in classical Greece, as a form of public discourse inclusive of 'poetry', '...
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What was post modernism before Lyotard?
What was post modernism before Lyotard?
I'm leaning heavily toward the idea that modernism, in the literary arts, was kaput by world war 2. I believe that's Miller's thesis here (about to read):
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What does metamodernism say about Eric Gans' ideas on "victimary thinking"?
Do Vermeulen and van den Akker's ideas on so called "metamodernism" have anything to say on Eric Gans' ideas of "victimary thinking"?
From wikipedia
The prefix 'meta' here refers not to some ...
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Who has linked the analysis of modernism or post modernism to Lacan's four discourses?
Who has linked the analysis of modernism or post modernism to Lacan's four discourses?
I mean obviously there's some kinda link between the master's discourse and at least some forms of modernism. I'...
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Who should I read to broadly understand contemporary philosophical discourse?
I'm taking ancient philosophy at a public university. I've engaged with the Western canon from the pre-socratics through Aristotle, a number of the medievals and a smattering of modern philosophers ...
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How to delve into Structuralism?
Any recommendations for someone who is interested in reading Structuralist writings and perhaps where to begin?
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Circular arguments in Philosophy post Wittgenstein
I am aware that this may seem rather naïve, but I feel I must ask it anyway: Are Heidegger's meditations on "Being" in "Zeit und Sein", and Derrida's deconstructions of Lacan's Freudian reflections on ...
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What does Baudrillard mean by "The end of the Social"?
In Simulacra and Simulation (as well, I am told, as in many other works), Baudrillard speaks with the typical obscurity of a French-English translation of the end of society and the "End of the ...
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