Thanks for clarifying. But I think that equating postmodernism only w/destructive relativism isn't really fair to some great & helpful work.https://twitter.com/hpluckrose/status/855783663904190464 …
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Derrida himself wrote (in Otobiographies) about how Nietzsche could not be completely dissociated from what others made of him.....
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...The same applies to Derrida, Foucault and Lyotard. I actually think Derrida at best is a subtle and fascinating figure, but then....
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..would ask how many of the pomos claiming his mantle have read him in any detail - or in French (which would be in keeping with his ideas)?
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And for that matter, how many who cite him have deeper familiarity with Kant, Hegel, Nietzsche, Husserl, Heidegger, and many more?
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A common criticism of Derrida is that he doesn't seem to have acknowledged the existence of Wittgenstein!
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But yes, the more politicised next generation did move past them mostly because they attempted to reconstruct society seriously.
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One of the most devastating critiques I've read of Derrida is that in Richard Wolin's The Seduction of Unreason. On Derrida and the law.
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I've not read either of those, I must admit. I am not hugely interested in philosophy at all. More focused on how ideas affect culture.
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