RE: MD Pirsig the postmodernist?

From: Matt the Enraged Endorphin (mpkundert@students.wisc.edu)
Date: Sun Mar 23 2003 - 20:06:39 GMT

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    Matt,

    Matt S said:
    I don't think that dissolving the appearance/reality distiction is an
    essence of postmodernism in general, and as such, Pirsig's valuing of this
    divide doesn't make him 'less' postmodern.

    Matt:
    C'mon now, Matt. Why would a post-modern like myself want to give an
    essence to anything? I was simply spinning a Rortyan version of it, and I
    find that Pirsig has some tensions in relation to that formulation. You
    are perfectly within rights to accept someone else's formulation of
    post-modernism (Fish's, Lyotard's, Derrida's, Foucault's), but I think they
    would all be hard-pressed to call any one of their own formulations the
    "essence of postmodernism." I think most of those thinkers would like to
    leave essences to the moderns.

    Matt

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