RE: MD Pirsig the postmodernist?

From: Erin N. (enoonan@kent.edu)
Date: Mon Mar 24 2003 - 03:43:40 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

    Hi Matt,
    Could you define what you mean by essence?

    erin

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