From: Matt the Enraged Endorphin (mpkundert@students.wisc.edu)
Date: Sun Mar 30 2003 - 23:22:01 BST
Sam, DMB,
DMB said:
I think that sometimes postmodernism is used as an escape hatch, as an
ejector seat to be used whenever one is about to crash into the obvious.
Sam said:
Nice image. I think it only applies to 'half-baked' postmodernism
though. (BTW, for Matt, if he's reading this: doesn't Lyotard's
'incredulity towards metanarratives' commit him to relativism? Just a thought)
Matt:
On Lyotard, I don't think he's commited to relativism because Lyotard wants
to commit himself to local narratives. But, as I'm not that familiar with
Lyotard, I know this is how Rorty reads him. Local narratives are imbedded
in history, while a metanarrative is another attempt to get that one, true,
perfect context and narrative in which all things, past, present, and
future, have, do, and will fit into. So, I think Lyotard escapes (on this
count, though perhaps not on others) "half-baked" post-modernism.
I agree with Sam's qualification of DMB's image and would add that
post-moderns do want an escape hatch, but it is a narrowly designed escape
hatch. We don't want to escape from the "obvious" (whatever that is), we
only want to escape from dispensable philosophical projects, those that
lead to dead-ends.
Matt
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