Postmodernism abandons ideology critique for cynical reason

Evidence

The central role of “ideology critique” in Critical Theory is, moreover, relegated to the margins of most postmodernist theory, which lacks-or rather, deliberately scorns the possibility of-any point d’appui for such a critique, preferring instead a cynical reason, if indeed a reason at all, that attacks all transcendent positions as discredited foundationalism and mocks utopianism as inherently fallacious. — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination, 21

Categorization

• XREF: Relates to Habermas’s critique of postmodernism and the ideology-critique tradition; echoes the Dialectic of Enlightenment’s account of instrumental reason run cynical. — connects to: Postmodern theory’s claims of abandoned meaning serve an ideological role masking its own dominance; Postmodernism theory was born in the euphoria of the Reagan bull market — Perry Anderson, The Origins of Postmodernity, 237; Postmodern theory holds that no one escapes culture’s ideological constructions — Marianne DeKoven, Utopia Limited: The Sixties and the…, 228 (+5 more)

Broader Connections

• Postmodern theory’s claims of abandoned meaning serve an ideological role masking its own dominance #corroborates (0.85)