That would be, yes! Quite another thing to suggest I should have included it in my look at epistemic & cultural relativity & IdPol
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Replying to @HPluckrose
I think the problem was attributing the coining of the term 'postmodernism' to Lyotard - many had used it before him.
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Replying to @ianpacemain
OK but not to describe the kind of thought I'm talking about?
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Replying to @HPluckrose
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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Replying to @ianpacemain
OK! Please write something about this. I'd be interested to read it.
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Replying to @HPluckrose
You'll find all of this in https://www.amazon.co.uk/Origins-Postmodernity-Perry-Anderson/dp/1859842224/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1493599779&sr=8-1&keywords=perry+anderson+the+origins+of+postmodernity …
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Replying to @ianpacemain
OK, but it is about the phenomenon we now know as postmodernism, is it? Incredulity to metanarratives, cultural constructivism, relativity?
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Replying to @HPluckrose
The phrase 'incredulity to metanarratives' is Lyotard's; cultural constructivism and relativity have longer histories, but also.....
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Replying to @ianpacemain
OK, well, spurning objective truth for personal accounts then.
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Replying to @HPluckrose
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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