Apparently around 600 people commented on Stanley Fish’s earlier article on French deconstruction, so he has posted a response. Here he argues that deconstruction only disrupts the idea of a theory of knowledge (epistemology), not the ideas we use on a day-to-day basis. Deconstruction, for Fish, is apolitical, because “theories of knowledge” don’t really contribute [...]
Archive for April, 2008
Fish on Deconstruction, Pt 2
April 22, 2008El Papa & The UN
April 19, 2008The Pope kicked it over at the United Nations HQ yesterday, giving a great 30 minute speech on the importance of human rights in resolving international disputes, and the indispensability of the transcendent in grounding human rights. Here are some highlights:
On science and technology:
Here our thoughts turn also to the way the results of scientific [...]
Fish on Deconstruction
April 7, 2008The noted American literary critic Stanley Fish has written an excellent summary of postmodern philosophy in his latest column for the NY Times. Especially helpful is his presentation of Anglo-American and Continental postmodernists as offering similar, rather than competing, solutions to Enlightenment problematics. Of course, were he to bring postmodern Aristotelians like Alasdair MacIntyre into [...]
