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Is Baudrillard's work left-wing or right-wing?
What hints can we draw from his philosophy to situate his politics ? For example the French philosopher Deleuze is obviously an anticatapitalist as understood from his ideas in Anti-oedipus.
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What is bourgeois liberalism (as associated with Rorty)?
In his SEP-article on Richard Rorty, Bjorn Ramberg on two occasions mentions bourgeois liberalism without offering any details of what Rorty or others mean by it. I have never come across this ...
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Was Jan Smuts the father of Holism?
With reference:
Jan C. Smuts, Holism and Evolution
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Smuts
With what I've found so far it seems he has had an enormous impact on the world that we have, so:
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What are the relations between Neoliberalism and Postmodernism?
The following passage surprised me, not only because it has neoliberals in place of postmodernists, but also because it describes everything I see as a consequence of so-called "Postmodernism" (or ...
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Who said postmodernism is a Right-wing philosophy?
The vast majority of texts I've read (probably all of them) link postmodernism with the Left-wing in politics. However, postmodernism attacks modern science, which was/is the main force against ...
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"Reality is a social construct" -- fair characterization or not?
This is something else I've wondered about. There seem to be these fierce online debates and movements that center around various questions of the validity of so called "social justice" issues which ...
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What exactly does Spivak mean by strategic essentialism?
I'm trying to understand better how to delineate essentialism from strategic essentialism. To me it would seem strategic essentialism is a political or social act of forming a coalition based aroun a ...
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Mass surveillance and the concealed subject of power
In Spivaks essay, can the Subaltern speak, she states that:
[the] contemporary invocations of the libidinal economy and desire as the determining interest, combined with practical politics of the ...
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