So I'm about 30 pages into this book. So far it's making

>>9039062
>scepticism and socialism
Wut. Sounds like he's coming at it from a very particular angle.

>>9039079
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.

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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.

>>9039091
Is this real life?

>>9039091
but that's a completely reasonable description

>>9039091
jajajajajajajajaja

>>9039062
Just read Nietzsche and Heidegger.

>>9039091
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.

>>9039081
How does that mean he's not taking up a particular position? Of course he is.

>>9039107
Is this just fantasy?

>>9039091
Jokes on him, my field uses j to denote the imaginary unit!

>>9039091
literally not postmodernism, so you're reading a book that's fighting a strawman, grats

maybe because it is?

>>9039062
>secondary lit
NEVER

>>9041705
what?

>>9039674
Yeah that's what I was worried about

>>9041798

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

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>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

>>9041819
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.

>>9041849
Is he wrong?

>>9041915
not this book tho

>>9041918
Believe it or not, post-modernism was not a political ploy to make normal people feel bad.

>>9039062
>So far it's making postmodernism sound like the stupidest fucking thing anyone's ever invented

that was probably his objective

see also:
>>9041849
http://www.stephenhicks.org/intellectual-history/objectivism/

you should read a different book

>>9041921
Okay, why not? Why not this book and some other secondary lit on postmodernism?

>>9042004
lmao he's a huge ayn rand libertarian.

>>9042013

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

>>9041849
but that's right you fucking retard

>>9039091

>the author

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

>>9042013
1. It's an explicitly polemical work
2. The author appears to be relatively minor

>>9043688
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.