It's "Western society" gone nuts. Postmodernism is something of an overcorrection of the enlightenment and it turns the enlightenment on its head and into its opposite – a world of psychosis, archaic beliefs, barbarism, The New Dark Ages.
It's "Western society" gone nuts. Postmodernism is something of an overcorrection of the enlightenment and it turns the enlightenment on its head and into its opposite – a world of psychosis, archaic beliefs, barbarism, The New Dark Ages.
I have not thought-through what you say of Postmodernism - and can't for now. But it is interesting, and I have heard just enough anti-Enlightenment rhetoric to be intrigued.
If you are correct, then, instead of a fundamental reconsideration (a la Machiavelli), we are seeing a new version of "secularization" with The Enlightenment in-place of The Church. This is plausible on the surface - secularization as a process is reactionary in structure and inherently negative - it moves "forward" by negation.
It's "Western society" gone nuts. Postmodernism is something of an overcorrection of the enlightenment and it turns the enlightenment on its head and into its opposite – a world of psychosis, archaic beliefs, barbarism, The New Dark Ages.
I have not thought-through what you say of Postmodernism - and can't for now. But it is interesting, and I have heard just enough anti-Enlightenment rhetoric to be intrigued.
If you are correct, then, instead of a fundamental reconsideration (a la Machiavelli), we are seeing a new version of "secularization" with The Enlightenment in-place of The Church. This is plausible on the surface - secularization as a process is reactionary in structure and inherently negative - it moves "forward" by negation.
I will keep your idea in-mind for the future.