American pragmatism and French poststructuralism merged to attack Enlightenment rationalism.

Evidence

In philosophy, the intermingling of a revived American pragmatism with the post-Marxist and poststructuralist wave that struck Paris after 1968 produced what Bernstein (1985, 25) calls ‘a rage against humanism and the Enlightenment legacy.’ … Here, also, no less a person that Pope John Paul II has entered the fray on the side of the postmodern. — David Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity, 300

Categorization

• XREF: Useful for the rival-periodization comparison — the intellectual genealogy of postmodernism as a philosophical project is a competing account of origins against purely economic ones. — connects to: Both positivism and pragmatism shared philosophical assumptions Horkheimer opposed. — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination: A History…, 243; Postmodernism’s rejection of unified representation leads logically to pragmatic localism. — David Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity: An…, 353; The Romantic, religious bent of American critics primed them for French anti-Enlightenment theory — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory: Nations, Classes, Literatures, 88

Broader Connections

• The Romantic, religious bent of American critics primed them for French anti-Enlightenment theory #expands (0.82) — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory, 88
• Postmodernism’s rejection of unified representation leads logically to pragmatic localism. #responds-to (0.75) — David Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity, 353