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Dialectics and postmodernism as competing attacks on liberalism
I recently posted an inquiry over the attitude of Hegelian and Marxist dialectics toward Enlightenment liberalism.
A comment mentioned postmodernism as an example of a tradition more plainly ...
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What is the difference between Modernism and Modernity?
Modernity began during the Renaissance, and was basically the dominance of humanism or human exceptionalism.
But a lot of things that are very different have been called Modernist. Fascism, Marxism ...
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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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What is the difference between Modernity and Enlightenment?
I know several Enlightenment-era philosophers such as Smith and Locke were responsible for diminishing what Arendt calls "the realm of the political" and then they proceeded to reduce humans ...
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