Re:The Unfortunate Fallout of Campus Postmodernism
by dragonwriter on Wednesday October 25, 2017 @02:27PM
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> The more interesting question is what role did the recoil against postmodernism play in the election of Donald Trump?
While it figures in the propaganda a lot, I don't think it's all that important; for broad (such as it is) base of Trump support, reaction against modernism is probably more germane than that against postmodernism.
And the forces behind the movement seem very strongly influenced by postmodern dialectical approaches, though obviously the key conflict they arrange analysis around are different than those of the more widely acknowledged leftist post-modernists.
Reaction against post-modernism seems likely to influence a fairly narrow intellectual (or pseudo-intellectual) slice of the movement.
While it figures in the propaganda a lot, I don't think it's all that important; for broad (such as it is) base of Trump support, reaction against modernism is probably more germane than that against postmodernism.
And the forces behind the movement seem very strongly influenced by postmodern dialectical approaches, though obviously the key conflict they arrange analysis around are different than those of the more widely acknowledged leftist post-modernists.
Reaction against post-modernism seems likely to influence a fairly narrow intellectual (or pseudo-intellectual) slice of the movement.