/lit/ - Literature

>>12649569
such that Wokeness becomes only the forward arm of the only remaining revolution itself, that being speculative capital, which now nobody really wants, precisely because it works only by producing machines that devour your face:

>Postmodernist and Postcolonialist thinkers called in question the validity of the Enlightenment’s conception of reason and sought to discredit its efforts to further the general welfare of society and the general good. But in doing so Postmodernists and Postcolonialists so thoroughly muddled the two main dimensions of the Enlightenment as wholly to invalidate their own analysis and perpetrate a highly questionable conflation of disparate strands, providing massive if spurious leverage for a wide range of social conservatives, nationalists, fundamentalists, anti-democrats, and adherents of Counter-Enlightenment. Postmodernist and Postcolonialist ‘difference’ and plurality judged as a critique of, and as an answer to, Enlightenment is simply too inaccurate, and incoherent, both historically and philosophically, to be taken seriously in appraising ‘modernity’ whether defined philosophically or historically. But a wrong appraisal if sufficiently modish can still lend powerful support, as indeed both Postmodernism and Postcolonialism do, to claims that a range of national, religious, non-western, and subcultural approaches to the complexities of ordering modern life are morally and politically of equivalent or superior validity to the visions of ‘modernity’ forged by the Enlightenment merely because they are anti-Enlightenment and often non-western.

>Hence, the formidable strength of the current opposition to the values of the Radical Enlightenment whether Postmodern, Postcolonialist, nationalist, religious, or traditionalist is by no means a proof of their invalidity or their failure. Quite the reverse. Far from it being true that the ‘problems of modern moral theory emerge clearly as the product of the failure of the Enlightenment project’, as MacIntyre holds, the crisis of modern morality can much more compellingly be shown to result from the continuing and fierce worldwide resistance to the equity and equality, as well as democracy, of the radical stream’s ‘common good’, an opposition which began in the late seventeenth century and which continues today at the expense of vast sections of humanity. The irony is that while Postmodernist and Postcolonialist philosophers insist on the moral ‘failure of the Enlightenment project’, it is actually their assortment of ‘post-Enlightenment’ philosophies (frequently mere invitations to Counter-Enlightenment), their slogan that there can be no adjudication of the ‘culture wars’ of our time since ‘all values are equally valid’, which, as one scholar aptly put it, actually have least of ‘ethical importance’ to offer the world’s ‘excluded and exploited’.

>>9092543
>why does everything these days have to be so politically charged?
Welcome to life after the 18th century you sheltered fucking moron

Hello, /lit/. Can you personally recommend these two novels and could you please give me a little glimpse of the quality & experience of what I may be getting into? I've been very interested in both of them.

Hey /Lit/ this seemed to be the best place to ask so do any of you know of any good classical (before the 1920s) monologues (for men) from plays regarding the ideas of freedom and revolution. I tried Marius's speech on republic from Les Miserable but it seems that was only in the book and the play was released in the 1930s. Thank you for your help.