Explaining Postmodernism: Skepticism and Socialism from Rousseau to Foucault

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Scholargy Publishing, Inc., 2004 - 230 sivua
 

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What Postmodernism Is
1
Modern and postmodern
5
Modernism and the Enlightenment
7
Postmodernism versus the Enlightenment
14
Postmodern academic themes
16
Postmodern cultural themes
18
Why postmodernism?
20
The CounterEnlightenment Attack on Reason
23
Kant on collectivism and war
106
Herder on multicultural relativism
110
Fichte on education as socialization
113
Hegel on worshipping the state
120
From Hegel to the twentieth century
124
Right versus Left collectivism in the twentieth century
126
Who are the real socialists?
131
The Crisis of Socialism
135

The beginnings of the CounterEnlightenment
24
Kants skeptical conclusion
28
Kants problematic from empiricism and rationalism
29
Kants essential argument
33
Identifying Kants key assumptions
36
Why Kant is the turning point
39
reality or reason but not both
42
From Hegel to Nietzsche
44
Dialectic and saving religion
47
Hegels contribution to postmodernism
50
Irrationalism from Kierkegaard to Nietzsche
51
Summary of irrationalist themes
57
The TwentiethCentury Collapse of Reason
58
Setting aside reason and logic
61
Emotions as revelatory
62
Heidegger and postmodernism
65
from Europe to America
67
From Positivism to Analysis
70
Recasting philosophys function
72
Perception concepts and logic
74
From the collapse of Logical Positivism to Kuhn and Rorty
78
A vacuum for postmodernism to fill
79
Postmodernism is the end result of Kantian epistemology
80
The Climate of Collectivism
84
The argument of the next three chapters
86
Responding to socialisms crisis of theory and evidence
89
Back to Rousseau
91
Rousseaus CounterEnlightenment
92
Rousseaus collectivism and statism
96
Rousseau and the French Revolution
100
Right and Left collectivism
104
Three failed predictions
136
Lenin Mao and the lesson of the German Social Democrats
138
depression and war
141
liberal capitalism rebounds
143
Khrushchevs revelations and Hungary
146
change socialisms ethical standard
150
From need to equality
151
Front wealth is good to wealth is bad
153
change socialisms epistemology
156
Marx plus Freud or oppression plus repression
159
The rise and fall of Left terrorism
167
From the collapse of the New Left to postmodernism
171
Postmodern Strategy
174
Masks and rhetoric in language
175
When theory clashes with fact
178
Kierkegaardian postmodernism
179
Reversing Thrasymachus
182
Using contradictory discourses as a political strategy
184
Machiavellian postmodernism
186
Machiavellian rhetorical discourses
187
Deconstruction as an educational strategy
188
Ressentiment postmodernism
191
Nietzschean ressentiment
193
Foucault and Derrida on the end of man
195
Ressentiment strategy
198
Postpostmodernism
201
Bibliography
202
Index
215
Acknowledgements
230
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