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What does postmodernism say about Human Nature?
Chomsky who is anti-postmodernism believes humans have a nature which makes them inherently creative which can be achieved in a free society. This is in opposition to Foucault who talks bout the ...
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How did the french postmodernists and Rorty arrive to the same conclusion using different methodology?
Rorty founded pragmatism -> which is basically that words only get their meanign based on how they're used
French postmodernists on the other hand did different things all attacking Grand ...
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What do poststructuralists mean by "power legitimates itself"?
"The post-structuralists assert that in any culture power legitimates itself through its connection to the validating mechanism for truth claims."
How is it possible to use truth as an ...
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How can one argue against absolute Relativism while being a Postmodernist?
A common criticism of postmodernism by the misunderstood and its opponents is that postmodernism justifies absolute moral relativism. I.e The claim that any claim is as true or good as any other, thus ...
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Is it possible to reconcile the Enlightenment with post-modernism especially the work of Derrida?
I am referring to Derrida's response to Sokal where he claims his work does not criticize the Enlightenment.
However, given the enlightenment promoted the attitude that there existed truths, which ...
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How has Foucault and post modernism in general become the dominant lense of analysis in Western Academia and how do Hegelians and others oppose that?
I have read of the strong impact of Foucault (the most cited author ?) and post-modernist lenses in particular in Academia. From Edward Said's Orientalism to Spivak's work (which even doe was a ...
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What are some good easily understood books explaining the Postmodernist thinkers (Baudrillard, Derrida, Foucualt, Deleuze)?
I am talking bout books like Hegel: A Biography
by Terry P. Pinkard which makes his philosophy accessible. I am an engineering student and don't know a lot of theory but I have read Durant, The Second ...
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Foucault and Derrida on spiritual liberation
Apart from his analysis of truth and power, when Foucault says...
...truth isn’t the reward of free spirits, the child of protracted
solitude, nor the privilege of those who have succeeded in ...
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How to delve into Structuralism?
Any recommendations for someone who is interested in reading Structuralist writings and perhaps where to begin?
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