Re: Postmodernism & Liberalism

>If you mean that postmodernism should be critiqued with postmodernism then
>I have never heard anything so absurd in my life except of course when,
>say, a judge will critique the legal system with the principles of that
>legal system. The problem is, of course, that, like existentialism,
>postmodernism cannot be critiqued outside of itself.

I'm cornfused, hayseed that I am. Don't the two sentences above contradict
one another?

BTW, isn't it a very Kantian notion that one use what is essential to the
discipline to critique the discipline itself?



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