[FRA:] Marcuse question

[steve.devos at krokodile.co.uk]

James,

and the purpose of the link is what ? It doesn't appear to add any 
meaning or context to the previous four points...

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James Rovira wrote:

>I should probably spell out how I view the US political landscape.
>
>1. Dominated by the principles of enlightenment liberalism: the autonomous
>individual is the primary political unit.
>2. "Liberals" and "conservatives" in US politics are both shades of
>enlightenment liberalism: leftliberalism and rightliberalism.
>3. The political spectrum is not fully represented by leftliberalism or
>rightliberalism -- in fact, the image of a "political spectrum" doesn't
>quite work.  We need more than a simple linear model to represent different
>political views -- at least on two axes, perhaps three.
>4. Postmodernism is most intelligibly understood as a critique of
>enlightenment liberalism.
>
>You're right that most who self identify as "postmodernists" are "liberals"
>in the US political sense.  That's largely because most of what passes for
>postmodernism is really very stupid, or because you have to cast your vote
>somewhere and people tend to be pragmatists -- vote for the side that will
>give you most of what you want for now, happy with it or not.
>
>The following link is an interesting assessment of the relative positions of
>postmodernism, the enlightenment project, and humanism from a
>neotraditionalist perspective.  The approach is literary-historical.
>
>http://www.newpantagruel.com/2006/01/placing_the_ear.php
>
>Jim Rovira
>
>On 2/21/06, Ralph Dumain <rdumain at igc.org> wrote:
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>>While your response is more intelligible than Fred Welfare's, I'm still
>>having trouble making sense out of it.  Is the problem the many meanings
>>attaching to the term liberal?  And is not pomo the province of political
>>liberals as we term them in the USA?  There's certainly nothing radical
>>about pomo.
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