Modern philosophy replaces substance-dualism solipsism with knowledge-based connection to the Other.

Evidence

This dilemma can be escaped ‘only if we give up the paradigm of the philosophy of consciousness - namely a subject that represents objects and toils with them - in favour of the paradigm of linguistic philosophy - namely, that of intersubjective understanding or communication — and put the cognitiveinstrumental aspect of reason in its proper place as part of a more encompassing communicative rationality.’ — Alex Callinicos, Against Postmodernism, 383 (#expands, via linked claim)

30 This may be a matter of emphasis rather than fundamental disagreement. Laclau, for example, writes as if the proliferation of identities is something which has simply happened to late-modern societies: his focus is on how such a disseminated field could nevertheless be hegemonized through a certain type of “universalization.” When advanced by some proponents, this often becomes a recuperation of difference and a reassertion of the old Enlightenment universalist argument. However, from the multicultural perspective, the heterogenization of the social field—the pluralization of positionalities—is itself a necessary and positive, though not sufficient, moment and must be retained (in its hybridized forms), alongside the efforts (always incomplete) to define from within their particularities of a more universal horizon. — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2, 409 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Escaping monologic reason requires replacing philosophy of consciousness with communicative rationality — Alex Callinicos, Against Postmodernism: A Marxist…, 383; Replacing one essentialist subject with another leaves inverted essentialism intact; A new philosophy is defined by transforming how philosophy itself is conceived (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• Escaping monologic reason requires replacing philosophy of consciousness with communicative rationality #expands (0.82) — Alex Callinicos, Against Postmodernism, 383
• Replacing one essentialist subject with another leaves inverted essentialism intact #complicates (0.75)
• Theoretical universalizations can recuperate difference into old Enlightenment universalist frameworks #complicates (0.73) — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2, 409
• A new philosophy is defined by transforming how philosophy itself is conceived #expands (0.72)