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Date: Mon, 22 Jan 1996 10:20:33 -0500 (EST)
From: malgosia askanas <ma-AT-panix.com>
Subject: Re:  Poststructualism, ethics and values


Bryan wrote:

> Ironically, I was talking to a number of my work collegues about this debate
> at lunch today.  They all said that while postmodernism was fun at
> university, working in the public sector forces you back to modernism.  When
> the Minister asks, "what shall I do in this situation"; there isn't an
> obvious response that begins, "Well a poststructuralist analysis of this
> situation would lead you to . . ."  Well not a politcally acceptable (vote
> winning) response within the confines of a modern Western liberal democracy.

Well, of course.  This is like discovering that Marxism doesn't provide one 
with strategies for eliminating class conflict under capitalism.  Not much
of a discovery, and not much of a criticism.


-malgosia 

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