Well, that depends how faithfully the sources have been represented. Actually, Derrida on Nietzsche is very interesting here.
Yes. Please feel free to focus on the academic origins in great detail. I'm going to focus on the ideas getting circulated now.
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You are not reading what I am writing. I'm saying here that German postmodernism was quite different. And that many others have delivered...
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...powerful critiques of postmodernist thinking. Habermas, Callinicos, Norris, Eagleton, Jameson, Harvey, et al. Just like you are doing.
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I've written about Habermas. Eagleton & Jameson in depth too. And then Aers & Patterson on them. Not the point here.
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Norris's three books from late 80s/early 90s really interest me - he wanted to separate Lyotard/Baudrillard from Foucault/Derrida (+others)
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I really don't care, to be honest. Every essay will take a limited number of theorists & a limited angle. Just write another one.
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But that's a wider point about the value of 'intellectual history'. How much are movements driven by thinkers, how much other forces?
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I locate pomo in collapse of Bretton-Woods, 1970s oil crisis, the ends of the trentes glorieuses, fragmentation of social dem consensus, +c
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In some ways I see Lyotard et al's work from this time as a product of those bigger things.
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