Laing’s attack on inner-outer dualism still operated within a modern paradigm

Evidence

Laing goes on to discuss the way in which the reification of ‘‘inner’’ and ‘‘outer’’ ‘‘does reflect a split in our experience. We seem to live in two worlds, and many people are aware only of the ‘outer’ rump’’ (21). The false inner-outer dualism thus becomes reintegrated into, or reabsorbed by, a modern paradigm, as a measure of the alienation Laing attacks in this book, just as Cartesian dualism is a location of the domination Marcuse attacks in odm. — Marianne DeKoven, Utopia Limited, 682

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Laing’s subject politics severed revolutionary change from material social conditions — Marianne DeKoven, Utopia Limited: The Sixties and the…, 666; Dissolving the inner-outer split erases the structure of revolutionary opposition itself — Marianne DeKoven, Utopia Limited: The Sixties and the…, 684; The utopian attack on dualism pivoted into postmodern philosophy — Marianne DeKoven, Utopia Limited: The Sixties and the…, 685 (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• Hegel dissolves subject-object dualism by starting before the separation occurs #expands (0.75) — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 102
• Theoretical universalizations can recuperate difference into old Enlightenment universalist frameworks #exemplifies (0.75) — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2, 409
• Modern philosophy replaces substance-dualism solipsism with knowledge-based connection to the Other. #expands (0.72)