Subject: [IFETS-Discuss] Parkany/Nardi
rleamnson@umassd.edu
Date: Fri 02 Jun 2000 - 00:54:30 MEST
From: rleamnson@umassd.edu Subject: [IFETS-Discuss] Parkany/Nardi Date: Thu, 01 Jun 2000 15:54:30 -0700
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Regarding A. Nardi's recent posting: I'm also unsure who the "Bob" is
that Rick Parkany was addressing. It might have been me, as I do take a dim
view of postmodernism, but haven't vented my spleen on the topic for some
while.
Nardi points out a problem with postmodern polemic that reminds me of a
similar catch 22 faced by deconstructionists. They produced pages of print
by the thousands trying to convince us that we could never learn the intent
of a writer by reading what he/she had written. (In that particular case I
had to agree with them.) Postmodernism tends to champion the relative and
be very suspicious of anything that smacks of "truth" or any absolute. Yet
their arguments for the absolute validity of their position are far more
assured, and strident, than anything you hear from us still stuck in the
Enlightenment.
Bob Leamnson
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