File spoon-archives/marxism-thaxis.archive/marxism-thaxis_1998/marxism-thaxis.9803, message 20


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




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