I am not better at accumulation of knowledge from enlightenment thinkers but
from those that are some what agaisnt enlightenment like Nietzsche, I'd
rather be stronger than smart
>From: "JODY PAUL,PIRRET" <jpp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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>Subject: Can Postmodernism survive?
>Date: Fri, 19 May 2000 11:45:52 +1200
>
>Kia ora Koutou,
>
>In terms of the accumulation of knowledge and understanding gained
>from reading philosophers connected to the Enlightenment, postmodernism,
>structuralism, and poststructuralism, etc, I fall way short of the mark
>in relation to those who have contributed to this discussion as far. So
>if this is a dumb comment, never mind, as I don't mind learning from dumb
>comments:
>
>It seems to me that thought and the action of thinking, is more material
>then I have previously realized and so I have reservations when it comes to
>anything that sounds remotely essentialist. When it comes to discussions of
>rationality, practices of transgression, or the formulation of a
>philosophy,
>
>what is being assumed? Is it being assumed that the individual is free to
>think
>their own thoughts? Or that the individual is performing the operations
>that
>
>have impacted on them in their life according to its contexts?
>
>It is strange to me that as human beings, our material environment appears
>to be a necessity to thought. I am struggling to grapple with statements
>like
>"I think, therefore, I am" as they are hegemonically a part of Western
>consciousness as I see it. How can Postmodernism not survive when I don't
>believe we have untied the knot forged by modernistic and Enlightened
>thinkers?
>Personally, I am, because of my material existence, in which my
>comprehension
>of it is like a grain of sand amongst the grains of all the beaches of the
>world.
>
>Anyhow, just some thoughts or "operations",
>
>Jody Pirret.
>
>jpp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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from those that are some what agaisnt enlightenment like Nietzsche, I'd
rather be stronger than smart
>From: "JODY PAUL,PIRRET" <jpp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Reply-To: foucault@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>To: "'foucault@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx'"
><foucault@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Subject: Can Postmodernism survive?
>Date: Fri, 19 May 2000 11:45:52 +1200
>
>Kia ora Koutou,
>
>In terms of the accumulation of knowledge and understanding gained
>from reading philosophers connected to the Enlightenment, postmodernism,
>structuralism, and poststructuralism, etc, I fall way short of the mark
>in relation to those who have contributed to this discussion as far. So
>if this is a dumb comment, never mind, as I don't mind learning from dumb
>comments:
>
>It seems to me that thought and the action of thinking, is more material
>then I have previously realized and so I have reservations when it comes to
>anything that sounds remotely essentialist. When it comes to discussions of
>rationality, practices of transgression, or the formulation of a
>philosophy,
>
>what is being assumed? Is it being assumed that the individual is free to
>think
>their own thoughts? Or that the individual is performing the operations
>that
>
>have impacted on them in their life according to its contexts?
>
>It is strange to me that as human beings, our material environment appears
>to be a necessity to thought. I am struggling to grapple with statements
>like
>"I think, therefore, I am" as they are hegemonically a part of Western
>consciousness as I see it. How can Postmodernism not survive when I don't
>believe we have untied the knot forged by modernistic and Enlightened
>thinkers?
>Personally, I am, because of my material existence, in which my
>comprehension
>of it is like a grain of sand amongst the grains of all the beaches of the
>world.
>
>Anyhow, just some thoughts or "operations",
>
>Jody Pirret.
>
>jpp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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