... as I indicated, the use of the term would need to be understood before one offered anything. But those who offered the term "post modernism" to cover meaning as use would probably have to have some other sort of words to describe the "post modernism" that espouses various kinds of irrationality and displays very often two-dimensional reasoning. And those that amount to left-wing whining and so forth. It's a garbage term anyway. It's sort of like the term "liberal" in politics -- or, perhaps, the term "politics" itself. BTW, I have never encountered a use of the term "post modern" that meant "structuralist." This is because the term came about in academic circles to describe post-structuralist thought. The poster child is Derrida. Here is what I want to say: people with far, far less intellectual capacity than Wittgenstein take only strands of his thinking -- or perhaps half-strands -- and larceny them into some sort of curmudgeon sort of deconstructionism, the point being only tantrum and poor cognition. Wittgenstein would not have kept company with either these people or their ideas. Dr. Sean Wilson, Esq. Assistant Professor Wright State University Redesigned Website: http://seanwilson.org SSRN papers: http://ssrn.com/author=596860 Twitter: http://twitter.com/seanwilsonorg Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/seanwilsonorg New Discussion Group: http://seanwilson.org/wittgenstein.discussion.html ----- Original Message ---- From: jrstern <jrstern@xxxxxxxxx> To: wittrs@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Tuesday, September 15, 2009 12:09:57 PM Subject: [Wittrs] Re: Wittgenstein and Post Modernism I think some others might say that "meaning is use" and "therapy" could be the bywords of postmodernism. I think it might depend on whether your understanding of "pomo" is structuralist or post-structuralist or the same kind of extreme empiricist that characterizes W2. Josh WEB VIEW: http://tinyurl.com/ku7ga4 TODAY: http://alturl.com/whcf 3 DAYS: http://alturl.com/d9vz 1 WEEK: http://alturl.com/yeza GOOGLE: http://groups.google.com/group/Wittrs YAHOO: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Wittrs/ FREELIST: //www.freelists.org/archive/wittrs/09-2009