Postmodernism
According to the book "Truth Decay" by D. Groothuis, around 1990 Russian literary critics were still interested in absolute truth while American critics had "moved beyond" such "outmoded" thinking.
Life is easy here in the US - at least with reference to political upheavals and physical comforts. Shakily grounded philosophies may often allow the justification of pleasure-seeking, God-ignoring lifestyles. When the populace does not see stark and awful results of such philosophies taken to the max, it may be easy for them to skirt reality and buy into the philosophies even if they are not logical.
I'm enjoying tracing the logic paths in this book. E.g. according to some postmodernists, "truth" is the result of language and does not relate to objective reality. Applying that to postmodern philosophies themselves, they cannot be reality because they are the result of discourse.
Life is easy here in the US - at least with reference to political upheavals and physical comforts. Shakily grounded philosophies may often allow the justification of pleasure-seeking, God-ignoring lifestyles. When the populace does not see stark and awful results of such philosophies taken to the max, it may be easy for them to skirt reality and buy into the philosophies even if they are not logical.
I'm enjoying tracing the logic paths in this book. E.g. according to some postmodernists, "truth" is the result of language and does not relate to objective reality. Applying that to postmodern philosophies themselves, they cannot be reality because they are the result of discourse.
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