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Where Do Postmodernists Come From?
Eagleton, Terry
Publisher: Monthly Review, Vol. 47, No. 3, July-August 1995, New York, USAYear Published: 1995 Pages: 12pp Resource Type: Article Cx Number: CX8307 Eagleton argues that left intellectuals have adopted postmodernism out of a sense of having been badly defeated, a belief that the left as a political tendency has little future. Culturalism, he argues, involves an extreme subjectivism combined with a deep pessimism, a sense that it isn't worth the effort to learn about the world, to analyze social systems, for instance, because they can't be changed anyway. Subject Headings |