@kenanmalik I cited your wonderful recent piece on the spread of postmodernism in my look at its roots & developmenthttps://areomagazine.com/2017/03/27/how-french-intellectuals-ruined-the-west-postmodernism-and-its-impact-explained/comment-page-1/#comment-403 …
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That is my point. Postmodernism was never about emancipation in my opinion
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Have I suggested it is? I thought I'd been clear it was authoritarian & restrictive and anti-liberal.
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you do say it is revolutionary and leftist.... Many don't see it as leftist because it is uninterested in equality and progress.
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And I have also argued this! They do tho! They come from this tradition but apply it horribly.
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a narrative that presents the Enlightenment as oppressive as you know
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So we go all Foucauldian and change the history so it doesn't seem that way?
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we do what Kenan does: we say that it was born in the West, without equating it strictly with the West. Both statements are true
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And you think I don't do that?
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