File spoon-archives/foucault.archive/foucault_2002/foucault.0208, message 11


Date: Thu, 01 Aug 2002 08:36:01 -0400
From: Phil Ryan <philip_ryan-AT-carleton.ca>
Subject: Re: foucault-digest V2 #567




Ali Rizvi wrote:

> I guess in America these days poor 'postmodernists' are in trouble.
> They may be next in line after Al-Qaida and Iraq. In fact I remember
> reading in NYT few days back an article that 'establishes' direct
> link between 'postmodernist' thinking and September 11!

To be specific:

Edward Rothstein argued that po-mo leaves us without a ^Ótranscendent ethical
perspective.^Ô  All we have with which to confront the assassins of September
are our own ^Ócompeting claims.^Ô  This leads to our ^Órelativizing^Ô the claims
of the West, and ^Óqualifying condemnations of the opposition^Ô

NYT, July 13

Rothstein was responding to an article from the guru of US po-mo lite,
Stanley Fish. I can dig out the URL of the latter, if anyone is interested.

Phil Ryan

PS: Apologies if this arrives twice: emailer problems.

   

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