Enlightenment thought frames tradition and modernity as opposing binary cultures.

Evidence

In the account I am offering (not endorsing), pragmatism, whether of the paleo or neo varieties, stands for a progressively more emphatic rejection of Enlightenment dualisms such as subject and object, mind and body, perception and reality, form and substance; these dualisms being regarded as the props of a conservative social, political, and legal order. — Richard A. Posner, What Has Pragmatism to Offer Law?, 17 (#contradicts, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: European modernity defines itself through relation to alien past cultures.; A shared East-West binary grounds vast and diverse bodies of thought; Pragmatism rejects Enlightenment dualisms as props of conservatism — Richard A. Posner, What Has Pragmatism to Offer Law?, 17 (+6 more)

Related

• Dialectic of Enlightenment conflates two distinct concepts of enlightenment forced together. (similarity 0.82)
• Pragmatism rejects Enlightenment dualisms as props of conservatism (similarity 0.81)
• European modernity defines itself through relation to alien past cultures. (similarity 0.81)
• Radical Enlightenment critique targets religion rather than reason itself (similarity 0.81)
• American pragmatism and French poststructuralism merged to attack Enlightenment rationalism. (similarity 0.79)
• The critique of Enlightenment predates postmodernism by two centuries. (similarity 0.79)
• Western modernity is a hegemonic particularism disguised as universalism (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Pragmatism rejects Enlightenment dualisms as props of conservatism #contradicts (0.85) — Richard A. Posner, What Has Pragmatism to Offer Law?, 17
• Modern Orientalism derives from secularizing elements in eighteenth-century European thought #expands (0.75)
• Enlightenment reason is used as a stick against Muslims in multicultural states #exemplifies (0.75)
• Enlightenment critique domesticated monsters into pathological human degenerates #exemplifies (0.72)