The utopian attack on dualism pivoted into postmodern philosophy

Evidence

For both Laing and Marcuse, the attack on dualism, born of and articulated in the service of a utopian modern agenda, is a pivot to the postmodern transformation of dualism into a limitless field of difference, or indifference, and of the ideological repudiation of all dualism as the defining structure marking and produced by the oppressive selfother binary. — Marianne DeKoven, Utopia Limited, 685

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Postmodern theory inherited sixties process aesthetics stripped of their revolutionary grit — Marianne DeKoven, Utopia Limited: The Sixties and the…, 646; Dissolving the inner-outer split erases the structure of revolutionary opposition itself — Marianne DeKoven, Utopia Limited: The Sixties and the…, 684; Sixties radical thought was still committed to totalized utopian master narratives — Marianne DeKoven, Utopia Limited: The Sixties and the…, 669 (+8 more)

Broader Connections

• The utopian ideal of deconstructive existence may already be socially realized as postmodernism #corroborates (0.90) — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 732
• Postmodernism transformed the modernist experience of self-loss into a celebrated utopia of unbelonging #expands (0.85) — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory, 271
• Postmodernism transforms the pain of unbelonging into a celebrated utopia #expands (0.85) — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory, 622
• Laing’s attack on inner-outer dualism still operated within a modern paradigm #complicates (0.80) — Marianne DeKoven, Utopia Limited, 682
• Holism and dualism should be fluid complements, not rigid opposites #complicates (0.75)