From: storeyd (storeyd@bc.edu)
Date: Sat May 15 2004 - 20:19:39 BST
David M,
Good points; you highlight the virtue and the vice of postmodernism, that it
shows the contingency of the social level, the relativity of contexts, that SQ
is not and couldn't possibly be the whole story; however, the prominent
pomo's--like foucault, derrida, and richard rorty, leave us in the
desert...they diagnose the problem to a T, but they put nothing positive in
its place. deconstruction is the ultimate in "negative philosophy", its pure
criticism, and can't help us escape teh gravitational pull of modern
secularity. in this respect, postmodernism opens up the danger of a greater
regression and seclusion in the ego, even as it shows the the self's
contingency. but yes, now that everything has been taken apart, we can
reconstruct it...and that means we can bring spirituality, quality, value,
meaning, depth, etc., back into the picture, and integrate it within both a
philosophical and scientific context. this will take time, of course, but it
is certainly going to be the thrust of thought in the 21st century, which
should hopefully see the decline of postmodernism's dominance, and a
recognition and preservation of its valuable insights.
-Dave
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