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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Replying to @fronxer
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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Replying to @fronxer
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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Replying to @fronxer
PostModernism can't be consistently applied. Realities such as the immorality of rape should not bargained about. Hope we can agree
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Replying to @AndyJGarfield
I would be surprised if the construction of rape couldn't be analyzed in way that would maintain its immorality
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Replying to @fronxer @AndyJGarfield
Deconstruction doesn't generally explain things out of existence. It can, however, open up novel ways of looking at them.
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Replying to @fronxer @AndyJGarfield
This is the argument of Mary Poovey who advocates using it as a 'toolbox' to question things but not going all the way & denying reality.
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Replying to @HPluckrose @AndyJGarfield
I agree that that would be a useful/pragmatic approach. However, it can be hard to agree on where that line is.
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I don't tend to think so. Most claims can be found to be true, false or unknown. Evidence can be presented & significance discussed.
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Replying to @HPluckrose @fronxer
I think it is hard to define the line if there are no parameters, correct.
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