Perhaps a better response to this question (or perhaps a better question
altogether) is why we desire postmodernism to survive. Its amazing to me
how an entire collection of unique thinkers--anyone starting from Heidegger
or Nietzsche or even Kierkegaard--can be erased of their singularity under
the rubric of "Post-X". Does it not strike a chord that there was a reason
none of them (with the exception of Lyotard) desired to be positioned in
broad, 2-dimensional catagories? Every ism has its gulag. The question
isn't "can postmodernism survive" but "when will postmodernism die?"...
loren
altogether) is why we desire postmodernism to survive. Its amazing to me
how an entire collection of unique thinkers--anyone starting from Heidegger
or Nietzsche or even Kierkegaard--can be erased of their singularity under
the rubric of "Post-X". Does it not strike a chord that there was a reason
none of them (with the exception of Lyotard) desired to be positioned in
broad, 2-dimensional catagories? Every ism has its gulag. The question
isn't "can postmodernism survive" but "when will postmodernism die?"...
loren