If someone claims to hold a belief with absolute 100% certainty, that doesn’t require a gigantic modern philosophical edifice in order to refute. It seems like that’s setting a very low bar for what postmodernism actually hopes to accomplish.
If someone claims to hold a belief with absolute 100% certainty, that doesn’t require a gigantic modern philosophical edifice in order to refute.
The reason why postmodernism often looks like that superficially is that it specializes in critiquing “gigantic modern philosophical edifice[s]” (emphasis on ‘modern’!). It takes a gigantic philosophy to beat a gigantic philosophy, at least in some people’s view.
If someone claims to hold a belief with absolute 100% certainty, that doesn’t require a gigantic modern philosophical edifice in order to refute. It seems like that’s setting a very low bar for what postmodernism actually hopes to accomplish.
The reason why postmodernism often looks like that superficially is that it specializes in critiquing “gigantic modern philosophical edifice[s]” (emphasis on ‘modern’!). It takes a gigantic philosophy to beat a gigantic philosophy, at least in some people’s view.