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I mean, dude, it's right in your own quote. Mills likes what postmodernism does politically and he says so in the highlited portion of the bit YOU quoted. Also, he seemingly accepts large portions of Postmodernism via postcolonial theory (hence his focus on deimperialism)....
I mean, dude, it's right in your own quote. Mills likes what postmodernism does politically and he says so in the highlited portion of the bit YOU quoted. Also, he seemingly accepts large portions of Postmodernism via postcolonial theory (hence his focus on deimperialism)....
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Yes, he rejects the move of some of the postmoderns to be skeptical of all meta narratives.
But postmoderns did away with the "incredulity toward meta narratives" since Kimberlee Crenshaw wrote "Mapping the Margins" and she states explicitly that....
Yes, he rejects the move of some of the postmoderns to be skeptical of all meta narratives.
But postmoderns did away with the "incredulity toward meta narratives" since Kimberlee Crenshaw wrote "Mapping the Margins" and she states explicitly that....
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Is a “provisional concept linking contemporary politics with postmodern theory."
So yeah, they don't accept the postmodern conclusion that doubts all and every metanarrative. They do accept many other aspects of postmodernism and he says so...
Is a “provisional concept linking contemporary politics with postmodern theory."
So yeah, they don't accept the postmodern conclusion that doubts all and every metanarrative. They do accept many other aspects of postmodernism and he says so...
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So what mills is doing is accepting portions of postmodernism where he sees them as helpful. Here he is in 2005 arguing on behalf of standpoint epistemology. You will notice...
So what mills is doing is accepting portions of postmodernism where he sees them as helpful. Here he is in 2005 arguing on behalf of standpoint epistemology. You will notice...
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He accepts standpoint theory which is completely in line with postmodernism (and which original Critical Theorists like Horkheimer and Marcuse rejected because they saw it as reletivistic) but he rejects the idea we can't have meta narratives.
He accepts standpoint theory which is completely in line with postmodernism (and which original Critical Theorists like Horkheimer and Marcuse rejected because they saw it as reletivistic) but he rejects the idea we can't have meta narratives.
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So is Charles Mills a playful 80's postmodern deconstructionist?
No.
Is Charles Mills a Critical Theorist who rejects reletivism but still uses postmodern ideas while accepting a version of the postmodern social ontology?
Yeah. I would say he is.
So is Charles Mills a playful 80's postmodern deconstructionist?
No.
Is Charles Mills a Critical Theorist who rejects reletivism but still uses postmodern ideas while accepting a version of the postmodern social ontology?
Yeah. I would say he is.
And I am SORRY for the typo's. So many of them in that thread
