[lit-ideas] postmortemism

  • From: Adriano Palma <Palma@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: "lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sun, 5 May 2013 11:53:04 +0000


the legacy being what? jokes on s&b?
one just wonders why this thing is taken to be as interesting, at least, as 
lady gaga, whom the students told me is very important in their lifestyle...


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From: "Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx" <Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx>
To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Sunday, May 5, 2013 5:16 AM
Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: The De-Exctinction of Post-Modernism



In a message dated 5/4/2013 5:54:28 P.M.  UTC-02, 
omarkusto@xxxxxxxxx<mailto:omarkusto@xxxxxxxxx>
writes:
that most of the dominant thinkers and  writers of postmodernism are now
dead in a quite physical sense. This might not  by itself prove that postmo as
a school of thought is dead though.

Still, as H. P. Grice says, in "The Life and Opinions of H. P.  Grice",

"we should treat those are great and dead as if they were great and living"
-- or words to that effect.

*This may be correct as a general point, but the intellectual stance of the 
postmodernists is (judging by their own statements) so closely tied to the 
historical period in which they perceive themselves to be living that, if that 
period happens to be over, this would at the very least call for a 
re-evaluation of their legacy.

O.K.
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