I mean, I am not one to object to tabooing a word if it causes confusion in a conversation, but having taken a few classes at Berkeley by self-identified postmodernist teachers and having had much fun arguing with them, I am pretty sure this is an accurate description of a standard part of postmodernist thought, and I also don’t think they would consider that adversarial! Like, they said almost these exact words to me and I expect would straightforwardly endorse them.
I feel like “postmodernism” is almost famous for being a term that causes confusion about what it means, but I wasn’t expecting it to be a term to trigger defense-mechanisms.
I don’t dispute that some postmodernists would consider cultural relativism central to their worldview, and think instead of ’mostly by its detractors’ I should have said ’often by its detractors’.
I mean, I am not one to object to tabooing a word if it causes confusion in a conversation, but having taken a few classes at Berkeley by self-identified postmodernist teachers and having had much fun arguing with them, I am pretty sure this is an accurate description of a standard part of postmodernist thought, and I also don’t think they would consider that adversarial! Like, they said almost these exact words to me and I expect would straightforwardly endorse them.
I feel like “postmodernism” is almost famous for being a term that causes confusion about what it means, but I wasn’t expecting it to be a term to trigger defense-mechanisms.
I don’t dispute that some postmodernists would consider cultural relativism central to their worldview, and think instead of ’mostly by its detractors’ I should have said ’often by its detractors’.
I’m glad you’re open to using different language.