..parallel debate in Germany, which took quite a different path. And powerful critiques from Habermas onwards.
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Replying to @ianpacemain
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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Replying to @ianpacemain
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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Replying to @ianpacemain
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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