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“Michel Foucault has identified the major targets: “All my
analyses are against the idea of universal necessities in human
existence.” Such necessities must be swept aside as baggage from
the past: “It is meaningless to speak in the name of—or against—
Reason, Truth, or Knowledge.”
The dominant trend in the contemporary age is called post-moderism. Without getting into its meaning, which can easily be referenced here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postmodernism, I wanted to point out the book: where this qoute is coming from:
Explaining Postmodernism
Skepticism and Socialism from Rousseau to Foucault
Stephen R. C. Hicks
…and how startling the Foucault quote was to me, and should be to anyone who really thinks about it. I never really heard directly the outright confession of post-modernism as being anti-intellectual, but this quote makes so clear that it truely is. That someone would actually go so far as to make one’s entire philosophy revolve around what amounts in the end to the meaninglessness of human existence. As I have observed from friends who have fallen prey to this thinking, a fundamental lack of self-esteem seems to be handled very well by the ease of simply giving up on life which is so easily taken care of by post-modern notions of living.
