This is far less important than which ideas caught on, how they were developed and how they are manifested now for my purposes.
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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Write it, Ian. I will read with interest.
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I have lots of other things to finish at the moment, and that sort of project is a v.big undertaking. But hope to write at some time on it
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