[FRA:] Marcuse question

[FREDWELFARE at aol.com]

In a message dated 2/23/2006 3:29:11 AM Eastern Standard Time,  
rdumain at igc.org writes:

DIALECTIC OF ENLIGHTENMENT is hardly a counterexample to my  
thesis.  Politically, it's nowhere in particular, and as an argument,  lacks 
historical concreteness.  It is rather a dubious metaphysical  excursus, or 
more generously, a metaphorical meditation that cannot  survive being taken 
literally.



Postmodernism is nothing but the skeptical response to modernity  because 
modernity posits individual rights, e.g. human rights, reproductive  rights, 
etc., and these rights are all too often ignored or rejected; the  postmodern 
perspective is valuable.  The threefold equality, freedom, and  rights from the 
enlightenment as what we now call liberalism or modernity should  not be 
confused with conservatism or republicanism in any way!  As for the  above statement 
by Ralph Dumain who has apparently not even read the Dialectic  of 
Enlightment, shame shame shame and WHAT UTTER TOTAL NONSENSE.  You need  to get off your 
high horse, that is, DISMOUNT, and read the f**king book.   This book is the 
most important statement of the Frankfurt School and REQUIRES  close reading.  
FrdW