[lit-ideas] Re: Giving Thanksgiving
- From: Eric Yost <mr.eric.yost@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 03 Dec 2010 03:52:13 -0500
On 12/3/2010 2:55 AM, Omar Kusturica wrote:
the Postmodernists have linked pretty much all of the Enlightenment thought to
totalitarianism. (Not necessarily rightly, but that wasn't the point.)
My hunch is that we are still inside the
Enlightenment and all these phases--from
Romanticism to Postcolonialism--are merely
iterations of the Enlightenment. The Romantic
turn, as in Rousseau, could be the Enlightenment's
experiment with rejecting itself, just as
Postcolonial thought is the Enlightenment's
dispersal beyond the West for a better look at
itself.
As for philosophers not linked to totalitarianism,
let me suggest--and also look to the pros on the
List for correction--some likely candidates:
Pythagoras, Aristotle, Epicurus, Cicero (for his
De Legibus), Plotinus, Augustine, Spinoza, Pierre
Bayle, Voltaire, Adam Smith, Hume, Schopenhauer,
J.S. Mill, Frege, Brentano, Pierce, Husserl,
Whitehead, Camus, Wittgenstein, and Arendt.
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