22-09-2013, 07:39 PM
Postmodernism appears to have been part of a twin-pronged attack on the intellectual, moral and spiritual (in the broad sense) faculties of the west over a period of decades. Preparata's argument in The Ideology of Tyranny is that:
He further argues that the ideologies of postmodernism and neoconservatism are essentially two sides of the same coin; Foucault and his intellectual successors representing the "left" side of a kind of Hegelian dialectic, with Ernst Jünger and his concept of the anarch on the right, both synthesised in Bataillian esotericism.
Also very interesting, I think, is the discussion of Heidegger's philosophy of Dasein in the context of the divine figure Cura (or "Care").
Now where have I heard that name before?
"The postmodern attitude, in its craving for differentiation, erasure of boundaries, and permissiveness, is indeed highly compatible with the defining traits of our corporate, market-oriented age. This basic realisation reveals that the apparent antagonism between modernists and postmodernists is somewhat feigned, if not imaginary."
He further argues that the ideologies of postmodernism and neoconservatism are essentially two sides of the same coin; Foucault and his intellectual successors representing the "left" side of a kind of Hegelian dialectic, with Ernst Jünger and his concept of the anarch on the right, both synthesised in Bataillian esotericism.
Also very interesting, I think, is the discussion of Heidegger's philosophy of Dasein in the context of the divine figure Cura (or "Care").
Now where have I heard that name before?