ERIC Number: EJ844786
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Publication Date: 2005-Mar
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Can Humanists Talk to Poststructuralists?
Goldblatt, Mark
Academic Questions, v18 n2 p57-65 Mar 2005
Someone possessed of conventional thought processes shouldn't even try to discuss opinions with poststructuralists. Derrida, Barthes, and Foucault couldn't care less about contradictions. P and "Not-P" can exist comfortably together as true premises of an argument that for them is perfectly deductive, and in the name of whatever revolutionary goals they're pursuing, or perhaps just to be ornery, they flout logic in search of a nonfalsifiable position. Unfortunately, writes Mark Goldblatt, in doing so they've effectively removed "sapientia" from the concept "homo sapiens." (Contains 22 notes.)
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