Skepticism, modernism’s tool, is itself what killed the modern project.

Evidence

Patterson’s jurisprudence is built on foundations that modernism long ago abandoned, having assumed that skepticism had made them untenable. Ironically, it is precisely skepticism that has killed the project of the modern and that, along with self-reference, characterizes the faith of the postmodern. — Philip Chase Bobbitt, Reflections Inspired by My Critics, 394

Categorization

• DEFINE: Clarifies how Bobbitt delineates the modern from the postmodern: the postmodern is characteristically marked by skepticism plus self-reference.
• XREF: connects to: Modernity’s reflexivity makes its own rational grounds ultimately puzzling — Anthony Giddens, The Consequences of Modernity, 124

Related

• Modernity’s reflexivity makes its own rational grounds ultimately puzzling (similarity 0.80)
• Skepticism belongs to belief, so faith remains fertile in a postmodern world. (similarity 0.80)
• Modernity’s reflexivity subverts reason’s claim to certitude. (similarity 0.79)
• Contemporary transformations are modernity’s self-radicalization, not its ending (similarity 0.79)
• Modernity’s core is an irreducible enigma that cannot be overcome (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Modernity’s reflexivity makes its own rational grounds ultimately puzzling #expands (0.85) — Anthony Giddens, The Consequences of Modernity, 124