Explaining Postmodernism: Skepticism and Socialism from Rousseau to Foucault

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Scholargy Publishing, Inc., 2004 - 230 páginas
 

Índice

What Postmodernism Is
1
Modern and postmodern
5
Modernism and the Enlightenment
7
Postmodernism versus the Enlightenment
14
Postmodern academic themes
16
Postmodern cultural themes
18
Why postmodernism?
20
The CounterEnlightenment Attack on Reason
23
Kant on collectivism and war
106
Herder on multicultural relativism
110
Fichte on education as socialization
113
Hegel on worshipping the state
120
From Hegel to the twentieth century
124
Right versus Left collectivism in the twentieth century
126
Who are the real socialists?
131
The Crisis of Socialism
135

The beginnings of the CounterEnlightenment
24
Kants skeptical conclusion
28
Kants problematic from empiricism and rationalism
29
Kants essential argument
33
Identifying Kants key assumptions
36
Why Kant is the turning point
39
reality or reason but not both
42
from Hegel to Nietzsche
44
Dialectic and saving religion
47
Hegels contribution to postmodernism
50
Epistemological solutions to Kant irrationalism from Kierkegaard to Nietzsche
51
Summary of irrationalist themes
57
The TwentiethCentury Collapse of Reason
58
Setting aside reason and logic
61
Emotions as revelatory
62
Heidegger and postmodernism
65
from Europe to America
67
From Positivism to Analysis
70
Recasting philosophys function
72
Perception Concepts and Logic
74
From the collapse of Logical Positivism to Kuhn and Rorty
78
A vacuum for postmodernism to fill
79
Postmodernism is the end result of Kantian epistemology
80
The Climate of Collectivism
84
The argument of the next three chapters
86
Responding to socialisms crisis of theory and evidence
89
Back to Rousseau
91
Rousseaus CounterEnlightenment
92
Rousseaus collectivism and statism
96
Rousseau and the French Revolution
100
Right and Left collectivism
104
Three failed predictions
136
Socialism needs an aristocracy
136
depression and war
139
liberal capitalism rebounds
140
Khrushchevs revelations and Hungary
142
change socialisms ethical standard
146
From need to equality
147
From wealth is good to wealth is bad
149
change socialisms epistemology
152
Marx plus Freud or oppression plus repression
155
The rise and fall of Left terrorism
163
From the collapse of the New Left to postmodernism
167
Postmodern Strategy
170
Unmasking and rhetoric
171
When theory clashes with fact
174
Kierkegaardian postmodernism
175
Reversing Thrasymachus
178
Using contradictory discourses as a political strategy
180
Machiavellian postmodernism
182
Machiavellian rhetorical discourses
183
Deconstruction as an educational strategy
184
Ressentiment postmodernism
187
Nietzschean Ressentiment
189
Foucault and Derrida on the end of man
191
Ressentiment strategy
194
Postpostmodernism
197
Bibliography
198
Index
211
Acknowledgements
226
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