@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 …
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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I think the title is misleading. but there is little I would change in your piece.
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You don't think I talk about how postmodernism has damaged the west & explain the origins and key ideas?
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it think postmodernism is Western and that it has damaged the project of emancipation worldwide (incl. in the West).
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Why don't you write that piece? I meant what I've said & its not that only any ideas are restricted to the west.
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that the Enlightenment was imposed on the non-West via colonization.
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So what do we do? Pretend it wasn't born here? Doesn't dominate here?
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no not all! this is history, and i am not one to twist it (since I am no postmodernist)
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they found them emancipatory and because they allowed them to criticize colonialism, then the postmodern narrative fails
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while if we trace the history of all the formerly colonized who willingly embraced Enlightenment ideals because....
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My concern is that if we keep on equating the West with the Enlightenment, then we perpetuate the postmodern narrative...
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yes you did!!! Again I agree with pretty much everything, but....
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