ok so i read this article on the dangers of postmodernism (https://areomagazine.com/2017/03/27/how-french-intellectuals-ruined-the-west-postmodernism-and-its-impact-explained/ …) i disagree with a lot of it, but it’s not a bad article
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Replying to @fronxer
it is a good summary of a conflict that i also believe exists, from the perspective of a … let’s call them “conservative liberal”
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not surprisingly, i’m struggling to come up with a tweet-sized response but maybe: consider deconstruction and construction as a pair
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the author focuses a lot on the risks of relativism and less on the constructive potential of going beyond what “is” into what “could be”
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in my view of postmodernism, it suggests listening more to people, at the cost of “universal” truths that aren’t actually that universal
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But its far from definitive of postmodernism. This is what everyone who isn't a narrow ideologue does. PoMo doesn't own open-mindedness.
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Open-mindedness & listening to people is certainly not what I'm criticising about postmodernism.
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Also, showing universal truth claims to be nothing of the sort is compatible with scepticism & science so no criticism of that either.
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