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- Jeremy Taylor
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Re: Good Critiques of Deconstructionism and Post-Modernism
I was reading a few works on Shakespeare, such as one by Linda Woodbridge. She invokes Foucault alongside literary critics and anthropologists influenced by deconstructionism and post-modernism. She invoked, for example, anthropologists who claim you can never say anything universal about cultures.
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Re: Good Critiques of Deconstructionism and Post-Modernism
Well, that seems like an empirical claim. I'm not sure it's true- though I suppose it would make anthropology a priori impossible. It would, for instance preclude even antropological schemas by which you would describe cultures: like trying to have anatomy without organs.
Let me look at her. A Foucaultian reading of specific history can be illuminating. Broad strokes, it's usually terrible.
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Fighting to the death "the noonday demon" of Acedia.
My Books
It is precisely “values” that are the powerless and threadbare mask of the objectification of beings, an objectification that has become flat and devoid of background. No one dies for mere values.
~Martin Heidegger