Zizek is quite entertaining and often says interesting things. But if Lacan does not count as someone of which the term "postmodernism" is correctly u...
As noted, the example of nothingness may come to mind. Carnap devoted an essay on the impossibility of metaphysics, it had a strong flavor of "ordinar...
I wouldn't want to repeat exactly what I said in the other thread, so I'll perhaps say something closely related but not identical: Something is neede...
That's my impression too. It's more difficult to gain a following if one speaks in plain sentences. I agree, speculative realism and object oriented o...
So, was postmodernism a historical epoch? Is it over? Ha. I guess I should not be surprised that people here defend it as an advancement in philosophy...
Yes, you're right, I didn't express myself as clearly as I should have. I get the impression that the average US citizen knows less about the world th...
No, it's been my experience. This is probably more accurate: https://www.cfr.org/news-releases/americans-lack-knowledge-international-issues-yet-consi...
:lol: Yes. That is a problem with many Americans which is quite unfortunate. Obviously the US is far from "a city on a hill", nor paradise, it has ser...
Ah, good information. Sounds somewhat like transcendental idealism, similar to Kant or the Neoplatonists. I think what you say has to be true as a mat...
Perhaps if you expand your idea a bit more, it would be easier to answer. To say that perceptions, experiences and identity are stored memory doesn't ...
Yes, if they can be tested, then you have a better philosophy or system that should be clear. As an aside, I also think it's interesting to see what s...
And it may be true, that is it may be what really happened. It's unlikely we'll know, though who knows if some information leaks. It's also a good way...
There was bad prose prior to postmodernism. Just look at German Idealism or the Cambridge Platonists and many others. The problem here is the content ...
Aping Mankind, The Knowing Animal, On The Edge of Certainty, Epimethean Imaginings are all good for intro stuff. Not that he has anything much more co...
I can see why you say we have to be careful in this specific area. I don't have my mind made up on this topic, and you would know more about the actua...
I mean, would speaking about science be necessarily a narrative? It can take the form of a narrative, but I don't think it's strictly necessary. Descr...
I entirely agree with your analysis. There's also the aspect of being cryptic, which is somewhat different from obscurity which is found numerous time...
I mean, it can be both. I think certain passages in Kant can be called obscure, by this simply meaning hard to understand, not occult or him trying to...
Yes, that's correct. The German Idealists got lots of prestige in university positions and were lauded by many. Schopenhauer speculated that part of t...
@"Kenosha Kid" There's something that's not clear to me, which may be relevant for the thread. What specifically is there in pomo that is of use to th...
I think it makes more sense to think about evil acts or evil actions more than it is to think of as a person as being evil. Not that we cannot think o...
:100: That's been exactly my experience too. Again, exceptions, Foucault and the edge case of Deleuze. The novelists, on the other hand, I think were ...
That's fair, interest and excitement is a matter of taste after all. As for Russell, he might have been influenced to some degree by the early Wittgen...
I used to like Heidegger more than I do so now, though I still find parts of him interesting. Husserl I like a bit more, though I personally am learni...
Well put. Sagan was also quite good. Dawkins, on the other hand, goes a bit overboard when he speaks of science. Absolutely. There's no problem at all...
Well, it's our day to disagree on topics today, hah. I agree with Strawson here as well as Chomsky and Russell. I think Dennett's account can't actual...
That's the way it should be with any author. Just like you did, offer some way into someone's thought and proceed. But I have to say, I'm just not inc...
Ah. Thanks, I'll be sure to take a look at them. :up: And I found that one you mention for free, actually: https://www.partiallyexaminedlife.com/?get_...
Yeah. I mean, it kind of makes me feel a bit for those parts of it that are good like Foucault, Ecco, Pynchon, Zizek, etc. But, many people think diff...
:ok: I'm not sure about that. I had a pomo phase, which is why I can talk about this a bit. I read both primary and secondary literature on many of th...
Perhaps they will be found. Maybe it's probable. But the subjective "side" of consciousness, I don't think that's explained even if quantum phenomena ...
Strawson goes over this view in his Realistic Monism. I mean, it ends up becoming a verbal dispute, because even if experience is not at the very bott...
Yes. Camus was excellent, Sartre too in his novels. I should've said, by the late 60's something happened that made many of the French intellectuals w...
You're right. Actually, I've read that much of this goes straight back to Kant. He was very, very obscure but quite substantive. Then look at German I...
It's mostly direct quotes from many Postmodernists in which they use well defined scientific terms and use in to speak of power, or politics, in short...
Badiou's popularity in the US is due, in large part, to Žižek no doubt. I think Žižek is quite entertaining and I'd put him apart from the usual crowd...
I had in mind Sokal and Bricmont's Fashionable Nonsense, which presents a good argument on "pomo science". As for the Sokal affair in general, yeah, I...
Sure. I mean, it's fine if you want to focus on the skeptical side, or on the problem of "metanarratives", that can be useful. However, I would think ...
Exactly. Sure, we pick out those things we can still find useful today. So use radical doubt and see what reason tells you. We know reason is not all ...
I see. Well, it's a question of dispute to claim that the postmodernists achieved something of which few people have caught up on. I think Susan Haack...
Posters from the UK here can say if this is the case. I suspect that Trump didn't help in the cases of Brazil and Britain. Not sure about India. But w...
:roll: Good riddance. He murdered several hundreds of thousands of his countrymen/woman and yet they are the ones that riot against him losing an elec...
Yeah, Fauci could have said what he should have said, but it wouldn't have made a difference. Only Trump could have done that to an extent, in relatio...
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