Doesn't it make more sense to look for "liberatory" potential in
Enlightenment humanism with its notions of the "equal respect" due
to all? With its anti-foundationalist leanings, PM lays claim
to ideas of "equal" respect only by undermining the notion of respect.
As Harvey effectively argues in
I just have some abstract reactions to the most recent postings that
re-raised the issue of Derrida/Marx (forwarded by Doug Henwood) and
postmodernism (a quote from Jim Devine, forwarded by Gil Skilman).
There is, in fact, much liberatory potential in post-modernism (potential
to use the
I'm sorry if I fell into a bad habit of using "post-modern" as
an epithet. There are lots of different kinds of post-modernisms
just as there are several different types of Marxisms and communisms.
The kind of post-modernism that I was knocking was a kind of
intellectual nihilism that says that
