Date: Sun, 1 Mar 1998 20:47:25 -0500 From: Yoshie Furuhashi <Furuhashi.1-AT-osu.edu> Subject: Re: M-TH: Critical Realism? Jumble on English Depts. Carrol wrote: >Now there are lots of things wrong with the pomos, but "throwing out the >canon" is not one of them, for a number orf reasons: > >(1) "They" (and watch who "they" is here) have *not* thrown out the canon. > >(2) The canon SHOULD be thrown out, thought parts of it can and will be >brought back in again. I am entirely in agreement with Carrol, so I merely add a couple of things. Most seminal French postmodernist works are nothing but an extended commentary on the (modern) canonical texts, philosophical as well as literary, of the "Western Civilization." (This is most obvious in Derrida.) One might even go so far as to say that pomo has given an extended shelf life to the concept of the "West. Civ." Personally, I take the concept of the "West" to be a social fact as well as ideological fiction. Both have done a lot of harm to humanity, on top of the reality of imperialism. In terms of content, their works have given new twists to bourgeois individualism, by asking us to take pleasure in the ceaseless enactment and dissolution of the "individual" on paper. In this sense, postmodern philosophy is a lot like literary modernism. Yoshie --- from list marxism-thaxis-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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