Keith DeRose (Philosophy, Yale) has posted an interesting set of remarks on postmodernism. A short excerpt from the start of section 4:
My duties on humanities divisional committees have involved me in reading quite a bit of material by (what I at least take to be) postmodern writers. I would have to classify a lot of the material I’ve had to read as philosophy, but it is written by people who teach in various different humanities departments other than philosophy departments at various schools. And I generally find it to be dreadful.
UPDATE: Paul Kelleher, a graduate student in philosophy at Cornell, writes:
Every two years here at Cornell the Society for the Humanities awards six to eight fellowships for scholars to do research and participate in seminars on the "focal theme" for the two-year period. Apparently philosophers need not apply; this year's theme: " Historicizing the Global Post-Modern":
- If we can speak of a post-modern moment that enabled humanists to engage critically the enlightenment logic of western modernity, then now is the time to historicize the logic attributed to the post-modern itself.
The description alone is enough to run philosophers up their trees and away from the money.
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