Re: Austria



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> From: JBCM2@xxxxxxx
> To: foucault@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: Austria
> Date: Thursday, February 03, 2000 10:28 AM
>
> In a message dated 02/03/2000 10:12:23 AM Eastern Standard Time,
> fallavol@xxxxxxxxxx writes:
>
> <<
> Has anyone on this list thought that maybe the Austrians and the Freedom
> Party are correct, and the EU isn't, on this issue? It was my
> understanding that postmodernity meant resistance to grand narratives,
and
> surely this one-world governmental ideology that opposes nationalist
> Austrians qualifies as a concept to be deconstructed.
> >>
>
> further... which "grand narratiave" do you have in mind -- and where does
one
> find this so-called "one-world government"? you're not suggesting that
we
> actually have that, are you?

Yes. But also, can anyone really believe that this can be schematized as a
choice between 1) "one-world government ideology" and 2) nationalist,
racist, Nazi ideology? It seems that if "postmodernity" "means" anything,
it most certainly does NOT "mean" reifying false dualisms.


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