So I'm about 30 pages into this book...

So I'm about 30 pages into this book. So far it's making postmodernism sound like the stupidest fucking thing anyone's ever invented.

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>scepticism and socialism
Wut. Sounds like he's coming at it from a very particular angle.

No, he explains the whole movement and the history leading up to it, including philosophers that influenced the movement and the specific reactions to modernism, and the arguments made by post modernists. I literally thought the book was making shit up when it talked about putting the speed of light at an unfair advantage against other speeds by making it the fastest speed, or something like that.

Postmodernist argument the book uses as an example. I literally am incredulous to believe the author of this book didn't just make this shit up about postmodernism.

Is this real life?

but that's a completely reasonable description

jajajajajajajajaja

Just read Nietzsche and Heidegger.

There's no footnote, so it's entirely possible the author did indeed make it up. You're taking the unsourced word of a critic of postmodernism to be an entirely accurate description of a postmodernist position.

How does that mean he's not taking up a particular position? Of course he is.

Is this just fantasy?

Jokes on him, my field uses j to denote the imaginary unit!

literally not postmodernism, so you're reading a book that's fighting a strawman, grats

maybe because it is?

>secondary lit
NEVER

what?

Yeah that's what I was worried about

read postmodern books, not books on postmodernism, if you want to understand it

>Hicks argues that postmodernism is best understood as a rhetorical strategy of intellectuals and academics on the far left of the political spectrum developed in reaction to the failure of socialism and communism

Dude I'm not going to read all those authors when I'll have a better understanding of postmodernism than 99% of people on the planet by reading one book aggregated by a professor.

Is he wrong?

not this book tho

Believe it or not, post-modernism was not a political ploy to make normal people feel bad.

>So far it's making postmodernism sound like the stupidest fucking thing anyone's ever invented

that was probably his objective

see also:
stephenhicks.org/intellectual-history/objectivism/

you should read a different book

Okay, why not? Why not this book and some other secondary lit on postmodernism?

lmao he's a huge ayn rand libertarian.

really? This dude is a fucking moron. You'd be more educated by reading the Wikipedia page for postmodernism.

Even something like, "postmodernism, or the cultural logic of late capitalism," would probably be a better read

but that's right you fucking retard

bump

>the author

Bollocks, that's an essay written by Luce Irigaray.

1. It's an explicitly polemical work
2. The author appears to be relatively minor

You're right. I sort of regret buying it now, although it is a very beautiful book. It's a very sturdy, beautiful library binding, with pages as thick as photo printer paper.