Re: MD Re: Pirsig the postmodernist?

From: Elizaphanian (elizaphanian@tiscali.co.uk)
Date: Tue Apr 01 2003 - 12:03:12 BST

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    Hi Matt,

    I think you're right, our differences are just semantic. "It's when you take
    a particular local narrative and final vocabulary and say that that
    narrative and vocabulary are what sits behind all other narratives and
    vocabularies. If you don't make that move, then you can still say you are
    an historicist and are dealing with local narratives." I'm comfortable with
    calling that last one a meta-narrative, but nothing much hangs on the words.

    > I've got both the Postmodern Condition and On Certainty on my shelf. I've
    > read part of Lyotard's book and it's certainly a good read. With
    > Wittgenstein I keep hoping for a class to appear that I could read his
    > books with. Something to help along my understanding of him so I don't
    > accidently gloss over a difference between him and pragmatists. If I'm
    > gonna' gloss, it might as well be purposeful ;-)

    It's a shame there doesn't seem to be a Wittgenstein class at your Uni.
    Perhaps they should offer me a job!!! Read the Ray Monk biography. I know I
    keep recommending it, but it really is the best way into his thinking. (The
    best way to digest On Certainty is to read it in parallel with Descartes'
    Discourse on Method, and to do a 'compare and contrast'. Descartes - and
    indeed the Modernist ideology derived from him - was W's target)

    Cheers
    Sam

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