Postmodernism will never die, because it's the arising of self-awareness of modernism. The
hunt for the supreme Truth is over. Postmodernism is the discovery of the qualities and
strategies of language. Of course there will come more, other ways of thinking, with new
names and new approaches. I read Plato, Nietzsche, Foucault and many others. There texts
are not dead but full of inspiration. We should overcome this horrid monotheism in
philosophy, this weekness, this thanatos, which seeks comfort in The One, which is silent
and orderly as a millitary graveyard. Come drink a cup of kindness and let the texts do
their dance of spring. The future is to a child playing with dices.
erik
loren wrote:
> 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
hunt for the supreme Truth is over. Postmodernism is the discovery of the qualities and
strategies of language. Of course there will come more, other ways of thinking, with new
names and new approaches. I read Plato, Nietzsche, Foucault and many others. There texts
are not dead but full of inspiration. We should overcome this horrid monotheism in
philosophy, this weekness, this thanatos, which seeks comfort in The One, which is silent
and orderly as a millitary graveyard. Come drink a cup of kindness and let the texts do
their dance of spring. The future is to a child playing with dices.
erik
loren wrote:
> 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