Whats in a Name? (F.K.A. "Can Postmodernism Survive?")

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


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