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- Title
RIGHT-WING POSTMODERNISM AND THE RATIONALITY OF TRADITIONS.
- Authors
Cary, Phillip
- Abstract
Modern thought typically opposes the authority of tradition in the name of universal reason. Postmodernism begins with the insight that the sociohistorical context of tradition and its authority is inevitable, even in modernity. Modernity can no longer take itself for granted when it recognizes itself as a tradition that is opposed to traditions. The left-wing postmodernist response to this insight (represented, e.g., by Jacques Derrida and Michel Foucault) is to conclude that because tradition is inevitable, irrationality is inevitable. The right-wing postmodernist response (represented, e.g., by Hans-Georg Gadamer and Alasdair MacIntyre) is to see traditions as the home of diverse forms of rationality. This requires an understanding of the Socratic, self-critical aspect of intellectual traditions, which include both modern sciences and the great world religions.
- Subjects
POSTMODERNISM (Philosophy); PERSONALITY (Theory of knowledge); REASON; MODERNITY; DELUSIONS
- Publication
Zygon: Journal of Religion & Science, 2017, Vol 52, Issue 3, p807
- ISSN
0591-2385
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/zygo.12354