Wonderful. Now have someone wanting to take issue with me saying PoMo threatens modernity but he doesn't know what modernity means.
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Yes, in some ways - and certainly on the debates which developed after Lyotard's publication. Lyotard himself took term from Ihab Hassan.
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OK! Please write something about this. I'd be interested to read it.
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OK, but it is about the phenomenon we now know as postmodernism, is it? Incredulity to metanarratives, cultural constructivism, relativity?
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The phrase 'incredulity to metanarratives' is Lyotard's; cultural constructivism and relativity have longer histories, but also.....
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OK, well, spurning objective truth for personal accounts then.
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I don't see that as unique or even particular to postmodernism - it can be found in a variety of anti-rationalist ideologies.
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Yes, it's a cluster of ideas. That's just one of them
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