Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1998 12:59:31 -0500
From: "Smith, Donald S" <Donald.S.Smith-AT-usa.xerox.com>
Subject: Postmodernism


Browsing the web I ran across this quote from Terry Eagleton:

"We are now in the process of wakening from the nightmare of modernity, with
its manipulative reason and fetish of the totality, into the laid-back
["joyful," as Nietzsche would say] pluralism of the postmodern, that
heterogeneous range of life-styles and language games which has renounced
the nostalgic urge to totalize and legitimate itself....Science and
philosophy must jettison their grandiose metaphysical claims and view
themselves more modestly as just another set of narratives."

It sums up the way I feel much better than I could say it. Although I might
add religion along with science and philosophy.

Don Smith