It's mine tho. I'm working backwards from the problems we're facing now to the source & the shift in the academic left.
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Replying to @HPluckrose
But I'm not so sure you can locate a single source in that way. And so many in that tradition have rarely read Lyotard properly.
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I did read somewhere (but haven't seen it confirmed) that Lyotard violently disowned that book. The bit so many miss is when he points....
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Replying to @ianpacemain @HPluckrose
...out that when value disappears one still has price. Very much anticipating Marxist critiques of postmodernism.
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Of course. Marxism was one of his main targets. They were bound to respond.
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Replying to @HPluckrose
That wasn't quite my point - in some ways Lyotard's book can be read as a scathing indictment of a condition from a neo-Marxist view
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It's even truer of Derrida. Much writing draws upon a few quotes from a small few essays, whereas he was a hugely prolific writer.
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Replying to @ianpacemain
Always the case. I like his work on Augustine.
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Replying to @HPluckrose
I've got many doubts about all figures you cite (especially Foucault), but think the issue is more with their appropriation on US campuses
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I'm in the UK. Bad enough here. Science has been refuted, apparently.
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