> If post structuralists are forced to choose
> between "pessimism" vs "optimism", where their real focus is on closure vs
> uncertainty, (or what ever you like), then, yes, pessimism more accurately
> describes the post strucuralist.
Critique isn't pessimism, is it? I thought it was what Nietzsche
called it, a gay science, the fro:liche Wissenschaft. As Nietzsche
said about nihilism--we're not introducing pessimism; we're pointing
out the pessimism that metaphysics and ontology have built into their
system. Foucault's standing invitation to alterity seems very
optimistic.
Rick Duerden
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