Re: MD Some cultures are better than others

From: MATTHEW PAUL KUNDERT (mpkundert@students.wisc.edu)
Date: Thu Jan 22 2004 - 17:11:27 GMT

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Platt said:
Postmodernism and it's handmaiden, political correctness, is slowly but surely losing academic respectability in the humanities departments on college campuses.

On the scale of human accomplishment in philosophy over the centuries, postmodernism is hardly measurable, if indeed it registers at all.

Matt:
Maybe I'm the only one who finds this interesting, but what does it mean when Rorty, who usually gets lumped as a degenerate post-modern nihilist, A) says things that are easily in the same basket as Pirsig's statements about cultures and B) Anthony pans Rorty for merely recapitulating ideas that are over 2500 years old?

Is postmodernism still nihilistic? Is postmodernism hardly measurable?

Matt

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