IMHO, the problem with "post modernism" relates more to what people have come to expect from their isms than with the main contributions to post modern thought. I would offer Lyotard's argument about the demise of the grand narratives as the most important insight of post-modernism.
Well, it stands to reason that if grand narratives, per se, are washed up, then p-m can't really aspire to be the new grand narratives, can it? But, of course, academic publishing requires a grand narrative. Also the popular appetite for tidy covering stories overwhelms any critical insight into the inadequacy of such tales. Post modernism went nowhere because, in its own terms, there is nowhere to go. On 3/11/08, Doyle Saylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Greetings Economists, > > On Mar 10, 2008, at 11:32 AM, raghu wrote: > > > More specifically what do you think are the most important insights of > > post-modernism? > > > Doyle; > Critique of reading. More or less rendering reading as fuzzy and open > to various interpretations. See Derrida, his early book > 'grammatology' set the tone long before the 'post' era came into > being. I still see a lot of people in the art world (visual art, > painting, etc.) who refer to Post Modernist thinking. They have a > definite sense modernism ended about 1980. And the arts have been the > same since then. In other words still 'Post' the long modern period. > > Carrol Cox writes, > > And no one has the slightest fucking idea of what "postmodernism" is or > who 'believes' in it, or if it is something one believes in or like the > rain something that falls on one. > > > Doyle; > It was during it's heyday influential in Academic English > environments, philosophy, and high culture arts. It died roughly > 2000. It died because of it's famously difficult process A lot of > work but not very interesting to read. It was influential in that it > rubbed everyone the wrong way, right and left. It failed not so much > because of 'reason' but because it went nowhere. > thanks, > > Doyle Saylor > > _______________________________________________ > pen-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l > -- Sandwichman _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
