File spoon-archives/foucault.archive/foucault_1999/foucault.9903, message 38


Date: Thu, 4 Mar 1999 13:56:00 -0500 (EST)
From: Matthew King <making-AT-yorku.ca>
Subject: Re: R: postmodernism and liberalism


On Thu, 4 Mar 1999, RICHARD PITHOUSE wrote:

> *A lot of postmodern thought doesn't seem to have understood 
> 	Kant's distinction between conviction (inward revelation) and
> 	belief (the public sphere of openly accountable reasons,
> 	arguments, principles, values.) Hence the Gulf War becomes more
> 	important as a media spectacle than as a reality etc, etc.

Um ... Kant thought that the French revolution was more important as a
spectacle than as a reality.

Matthew

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