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Originally Posted by yoko*
I don't even have a problem with Marx or Weber. It's moreso contemporary theorists that drive me mad. At least Marx was political and practiced to some degree, what he preached. Contemporary scholars bitch and whine and are too chicken shit to go beyond determining problems and offer solutions. I think they are cowardly and support the hegemony they supposedly "uncover" merely by "uncovering" them and doing fuckall about it.
But yeah, it all gets repetitive after a while. Glad that someone is appreciating the works though.
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Yeh that's the thing modernist thinkers thought they had the plan and postmodernist ones were too neutral, relativist or subjective in most areas to take a side. Doesn't mean that there aren't people offering a change from the current dominant ideology. Much like the change from keynesian economics to the current neoliberalism some people are fed up with rampant individualism. We're still back at the point where you ask who is right and if ideologies are just being rebranded.
I agree that a lot of theorists hide behind this subjective nature of ideas, it really gets nothing done. Not all do this though, a lot offer solutions ie. all the leftist ideas against neoliberalism (which itself was a fringe ideology before it was taken up by the Chicago school and exported around the world). We are still back at what is right. The theorists uncover these relationships as well as mobilize people to use these ideas in certain ways. Not all are completely depressing like nietszche lol. I think there is more literature these days that mobilize people in certain ways instead of just talking about the hopeless nature of postmodern culture.
Feb 05, 08
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