Postmodern pluralist philosophies politically uphold the very liberal system they claim to critique
Evidence
Be under no illusions: differends, incommensurability, language games, forms of life, very far from disrupting the Dominant Operating System are that operating system in person. Žižek is right about Rorty being right: for all their apparent philosophical wrangles, the political upshot of the theories of Derrida and Habermas (and one can presumably add in Lyotard here) is exactly the same: defence of the liberal values of respect for Otherness, etc., etc. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 2394
Categorization
- XREF: Connects to Fisher’s recurring claim that what reads as critical theory (‘fragmentation, deconstruction, cut-up’) is actually the operative logic of capitalist postmodernity. — connects to: Liberal thought assumes the world should conform to liberal premises — Wael Hallaq, Restating Orientalism: A Critique of…, 497; Liberalism is not actually impartial in theory or practice — David Schlosberg, Defining Environmental Justice:…, 357; Periodizing postmodernism as a unified system may betray its own logic of difference — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 739 (+4 more)
Broader Connections
- Critiques conducted within political discourse reinforce the system they claim to scrutinize
#expands(0.90) — Wael Hallaq, Restating Orientalism, 446 - Postmodernism abandons ideology critique for cynical reason
#expands(0.82) — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination, 21 - Liberal thought assumes the world should conform to liberal premises
#expands(0.75) — Wael Hallaq, Restating Orientalism, 497 - Periodizing postmodernism as a unified system may betray its own logic of difference
#complicates(0.74) — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 739 - Liberalism is not actually impartial in theory or practice
#expands(0.72) — David Schlosberg, Defining Environmental Justice, 357