/lit/ - Literature

>>10662759
Topkek

>>10665287
Confusing a lot of intellectual developments - understandably - but in a way that compromises your ability to view them as a whole and critique them.
I think it is a mistake to view Marxism and Marxist thought as the genesis of postmodernism. Rather, Marxism, springing from Enlightenment and modernist philosophy, sustained by it, develops alongside it. It is true that Marx's predictions that the workers in the industrialised West would be receptive to Communism proved false, and that radical intellectuals became disillusioned with the Communist project. But this is one current in the whole of Western thought among many, not the decisive one. In the 20th century we see people become disillusioned with both nationalism and internationalism following the first world war, that sort of shit, a whole host of back-and-forth intellectual developments in response to and alongside historical events. The structuralist debate in France. The failure of liberal democracy. The growing realisation (that had begun ever since the French Revolution, and 1848 and so on) that the aim of human perfectability in accordance with "rationality" and state control could not make heaven on Earth etc. Nazism, world war as a result of this and industrialisation, etc. Mass communication, information, special relativity, quantum physics.
Postmodernism is not fun for Marxists...

Nietzsche was terrifyingly prescient. Perhaps Germany in the latter half of 19th century Europe could be considered the "eye of the storm", giving rise to a flurry of stunningly insightful philosophers and artists.

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>>10572842
OOPS :)