OK! This piece which many of you have found difficult and some of you have become quite annoyed with. It addresses postmodern ideas in its own language but whereas postmodernism seeks to complicate & confuse, this piece seeks to show the workings. 1 of many.https://twitter.com/thesadredearth/status/972840550717181952 …
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"A double challenge to liberal democrats is both to reject the right in full voice, yet make clear their profound separateness from the far left... They must fully recognize how their progressivism differs from the ever-accumulating transformative regimes of the far left"
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So, that (somewhat cut) is clear enough. The aim here is to distinguish a liberal desire for progress from the ideological mess on the far-left. To do so, requires understanding said ideological mess.
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MINI-THREAD Hi Helen. Since your amazing article on the French Postmodernists a year ago I've been trying to understand them better through reading and getting a crash course in philosophy from
@iamstephenwest who runs a podcast called "Philosophize This." ...1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
MINI-THREAD ... My goal is to (in the words of
@EricRWeinstein) "steel-man" the concepts at play in critical theory. Nassim Taleb (@nntaleb) describes this in his book "Skin in the Game": The great Karl Popper often started a discussion with an unerring representation...1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
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MINI-THREAD ... of his opponent's positions, often exhaustive, as if he were marketing his own ideas, before proceeding to systematically dismantle them. ... The principle of charity stipulates that you try to understand a message as if you were it's author. "Skin in the Game"
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Excellent. This is what I am doing too. I look forward to seeing what you come up with.
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