Who's Afraid of Relativism? (The Church and Postmodern Culture): Community, Contingency, and Creaturehood
James K. A. Smithamazon.com
Who's Afraid of Relativism? (The Church and Postmodern Culture): Community, Contingency, and Creaturehood
For a number of philosophers-Heidegger, Foucault, Derrida, and others-there is a dangerous tendency in modernity toward closure and tautological reductionism: "totalization, normalization and domination."" Levin has noted that behind our Western visionary tradition lies the shadow of phallocentrism, logocentrism, and a "helio-po
... See moreThat can no longer be taken for granted. Postmodern societies are marked by their lack of moral consensus.
We will see that much that goes under the banner of postmodern philosophy has one eye on ancient and medieval sources and constitutes a significant recovery of premodern ways of knowing, being, and doing.