@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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Replying to @HPluckrose @kenanmalik
In short, I would not say that postmodernists are destroying the West, but the idea of universal emancipation
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Replying to @icarianne2
I'd disagree. A new form of authoritarianism born of postmodernism is at the root of it.Not much emancipation going on. Limiting
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Replying to @HPluckrose
That is my point. Postmodernism was never about emancipation in my opinion
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Replying to @icarianne2
Have I suggested it is? I thought I'd been clear it was authoritarian & restrictive and anti-liberal.
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Replying to @HPluckrose
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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Replying to @icarianne2
And I have also argued this! They do tho! They come from this tradition but apply it horribly.
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Replying to @HPluckrose
a narrative that presents the Enlightenment as oppressive as you know
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Replying to @icarianne2
So we go all Foucauldian and change the history so it doesn't seem that way?
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Replying to @HPluckrose
most importantly, we recall the history of those outside the West ( minority to be sure) who saw it as a tool of emancipation
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That sounds like a different essay and one I'd probably love. This one focuses on postmodernism in the west.
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