But this isn't a summary of postmodernism. That was my point. Critics of 'Postmodernism' are really criticising a few ideas which originate from it. Or do you think they're criticising something else? I know some like to conflate it with Marxism.
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Replying to @HPluckrose
Having said that... Standpoint theory, for example, isn't postmodernist. It's Marxist originally. Lukacs-->Hartsock. Actually, Twitter is hopeless for this sort of thing, so I'll shut up!


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Replying to @PhilosophyExp
Standpoint theory appears most strongly right now in feminist epistemology from the likes of Dotson and Fricker and is rooted in critical race theory and intersectionality which are figured (by Crenshaw) as linking contemporary politics with postmodern theory.
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This really isn't the place for this conversation, but somebody like Harding, for example, explicitly contrasts standpoint theory and feminist postmodernism. Fricker explicitly rejects what she calls reductivist approaches...
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and she sees standpoint theory as being Marxist. This is what she told me: "The idea we structure the world, but that that "we" is not unified and equal... is originally a Marxist, rather than postmodern, idea. In feminism, standpoint theory has taken this basic template...)
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Replying to @PhilosophyExp
Interesting. However, this is also rather central to the work of Foucault, Derrida and Lyotard, to name just a few.
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But I tend not to go too deeply into the origins of ideas and who owned them originally, anyway but look at who is being cited. In Applebaum's Being White. Being Good, which I am reading right now, it is Derrida and Foucault mostly.
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Replying to @HPluckrose
Well, I've read almost literally everything Foucault has ever written, and as far as I'm concerned, he's not a postmodernist. IIRC he explicitly rejected the label - in Colin Gordon's anthology, I think.
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I think most of them did! But this is a conversation in which the point can be lost in definitions and origins of thought. My list is what people are criticising under the unsatisfactory title of 'postmodernism.' They really are whether one thinks they should be in these terms.
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Okay, I've got to go! Fun talking to you! I co-authored a book criticising postmodernism (sort of - it was certainly taken that way!). It's called "Why Truth Matters". See ya!
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Ooh! I missed that somehow. I shall find it. Thanks for the convo.
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