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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