The Truth About Truth: De-Confusing and Re-Constructing the Postmodern World.

From: Reason | Date: October 1, 1995| Author: | Copyright information

Some people fall into conversational catatonia at the mere mention of the voguish - and vague - term postmodernism. Others, seized by an intellectual version of Tourette's Syndrome, start barking and cursing wildly. Such reactions are understandable - why grapple with what might turn out to be only the latest academic version of the pet rock? - but also unfortunate. For just as we were all socialists once, all Keynsians once, and all Brooklyn Dodger fans once, we are all postmodernists now.

The negative reactions to postmodernism are unfortunate for another reason, too: Although ...

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