A broad current after 1968 that breaks with much modernist thinking and is skeptical of objective truth and of any unifying grand story.
Nested layers: postmodernism is the big rubric, post-structuralism a more specific form inside it, deconstruction Derrida's own method inside that.
The image Shore uses for it, in our paraphrase.
In lecture order, as Marci Shore presents each view. The time opens that minute of the lecture on YouTube.
The postmodern, in Lyotard's famous 1979 formula, is "incredulity toward meta-narratives": a refusal to believe any single grand story could gather everything up and make it cohere.
Shore reads postmodernism as a late answer to the century's mass killing: a vow of never again that reexamines the revolutionary tradition and concedes something in it went wrong.
Truly escaping Hegel means calculating what the escape costs and how close he stands; our anti-Hegelianism may itself be one of his tricks, with him waiting at the end.
Put simply Foucault: to really escape Hegel, we must know what breaking free will cost and how close he still is. Our very rebellion against Hegel may be one of his tricks, with him waiting for us at the end.
Links from these claims to others in the course. Each shows the earlier claim, then the later one that answers it. “Our inference” marks a link Shore does not state outright.
HegelHegel's slogan "the true is the whole" means everything is interdependent and intelligible only together; since a totality shows itself only from its end, meaning arrives in retrospect. L4 · 46:56
LyotardThe postmodern, in Lyotard's famous 1979 formula, is "incredulity toward meta-narratives": a refusal to believe any single grand story could gather everything up and make it cohere. L22 · 17:41
Incredulity toward any grand story claiming to hold the whole togetherOur inference
Throughlines that pass through one of these claims.
Terms that appear in the same claims.