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Am I a Postmodernist
By | January 1, 1970
Am I a Postmodernist?
John Perry
The term “postmodern’’ came into use as a description of certain
trends in architecture, art, and literature in the 1970’s, although the
trends it describes reach back earlier in the twentieth century, to
Joyce and Finnegan’s Wake in the case of literature, and to the 1950’s
at least in the case of architecture. But what counts as postmodern
philosophy?
One theme of postmodernism, according to Jean-François Lytard at any rate, is the opposition to theory and “meta-narrative”. If I had just this much to go on, I might think that a good candidate for postmodern philosophy would be the views I was taught in graduate school at Cornell, a mixture of the philosophy of Wittgenstein and the Oxford Philosophy of J.O. Urmson, John Austin, and the like.
Urmson is an interesting figure. He came back to Oxford after spending five or six years in a German prison camp; […]
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