I think most people would put the beginnings of postmodernism as later than that date of 1915, which is when Einsteins General Theory was published.'post-modernity' is a descriptive label for a period or development in history, which is (obviously) subsequent to 'modernism' (which I categorise as the period between, or book-ended by, the publication of Newton's Principia and Einstein's General Theory of Relativity). — Wayfarer
In order to use anything that is 'post', one has to understand and know just what was before it, the thing before the 'post'.Can anyone think of any positives? — Ricardoc
If you study biblical history, you have problem in terns of determining what happened, what the gospels say happened, who wrote the gospels and who translated and copied the gospels and whether any interpolations were made. Then, we have to interpret what, if anything, they meant.
The same problem arises with post modernism. — Ricardoc
can someone enlighten as to what other kind of politics there is? — unenlightened
As I understand the postmodern trend, it's always moving on to something else...never resolving anything — Merkwurdichliebe
can someone enlighten as to what other kind of politics there is?
— unenlightened
Policies based on political philosophies other than one’s sense of oneself. You know - ‘I believe in public education’, ‘I support free enterprise without bureaucratic interference.’ And so on. — Wayfarer
Politics with a defined practical necessity where the decisions don't have anything to do with the identity of the people.Re identity politics, can someone enlighten as to what other kind of politics there is? — unenlightened
The fact that 's its rise was contemporaneous with the Reagan-Thatcher-Mitterand-Kohl proto-neo-liberal narrative, — Ricardoc
All of us are divided in multiple ways, first and foremost within ourselves. That's what politics at its best does: to craft a commonality out of that preexisting division. Identitiarians begin with the most spurious identity of all--the undivided self--and build from there — StreetlightX
Well I'm sorry, but that has the same ring of hypocrisy to me. I craft coalitions of interest and ideology, but when anti-racists and feminists — unenlightened
But feminism and anti-racist movements do not largely conform to the description I gave above. I think - though I could be wrong - we might agree on this. Those who like to wield and weaponize the term 'identity politics' do make it seem as though they do though. — StreetlightX
What folks are probably referring to with "identity politics" are the squeaky wheels who focus on things like race and gender essentially as a means of controlling what other people can choose to do — Terrapin Station
I ignored it because it's quite obvious that there are issues of race and gender that can and ought to be politically redressed. — StreetlightX
The same, I should probably add, goes for the term 'post-modernism'. — StreetlightX
we might agree on this. Those who like to wield and weaponize the term 'identity politics' do make it seem as though they do though. Which is still not to say that the description is not useful, or true of some politics. — StreetlightX
Re identity politics, can someone enlighten as to what other kind of politics there is? — unenlightened
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