Greetings Economists, On Nov 6, 2006, at 11:57 AM, Doug Henwood wrote:
What's "post-modernism"?
Doyle; Post the modern period. Derrida 'deconstructs' the assumptions of modernity. A typical text is 'Of Grammatology'. I have the Spivak translation. The French 1968 period produced a lot of the persons associated with the theory. Derrida is a good person to choose being more important in most ways than the lesser figures. Grammatology as it fits into linguistics, and phenomenology is a difficult book. Very erudite. I am highly critical of the premise. Doug Henwood writes; For the purposes of PEN-L, "post-modernism" is what biologists call a wastebasket taxon - the category you throw all the stuff you don't know how to classify into. In the PEN-L case, it's stuff people don't like, but haven't read. Doyle I don't find this illuminating at all. To what extent can we talk about something if it is not thoroughly read and understood. To say about the left they haven't read it is highly suspect. I presume one must able to discuss grammar on a number of different levels. The problem in Derrida is his metaphysical distance from human consciousness does not ground his work. Doyle
