Quote of the day:
“What I didn’t care for about modernism was its tendency toward dogmatism; what I don’t care for about postmodernism is its tendency toward skepticism. I think we’ve jumped out of the frying pan of modernist certainty and into the fire of postmodern uncertainty.”—Dan Wallace
Thinking to Believe 
March 29, 2006 at 11:44 am
Is there any way to guess or predict what will follow postmodernity? Will there be a cycle of postmodernity to modernity and back again – due to backlash – or will something completely different take it’s place? Any thoughts?
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March 29, 2006 at 2:16 pm
Post-post-modernity will follow post-modernity. Ha!
Some of the best philosophers are saying postmodernism is already on its way out of the academy. The problem is that there is a 20-30 year disconnect between the academy and the man on the street. The academy has been advocating postmodernism for decades before it trickled down into the mainstream culture. By the time postmodernism met the man on the street the academy has moved on. Unfortunately it will take another 20-30 years for postmodernism to be purged from the masses, at which time time it will be replaced by the next
I really can’t say precisely what the philosophers/intellectuals who are abandoning postmodernism are advancing now. I haven’t read about that. Considering the fact postmodernists are abandoning postmodern philosophy because its epistemology is untenable and self-refuting, and its view of language is not worth believing, I would imagine that they are returning to a modernist philosophy in those areas.
I don’t think there will ever be a full return to modernistic philosophy, nor a full abandonment of postmodernity. Both worldviews had their pros and their cons. Peopel will take what is good from both of them to form a “blend.” I’m sure there will be some other philosophical spin that will emerge as well. It always does. Just think back over the last 500 years of all the different philosophical worldviews: Hegelian dialectalism, Humian skepticism, empiricism, materialism, existentialism, and the list goes on.
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April 3, 2006 at 3:25 pm
Tbe Wallace quote reminds me of something W. Willamon once said. “I fear that we have peered so far over into the culture that we might have fallen in!”
Very Hauerwasian…
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