[Ian had asked] You've had Post-structuralism. You've had Post-Modernism. Thus side of the pond, we've even recently had Post-Christian. What about Post-Intellectualism?
[Arlo replied] This has been done, no? Donald Wood wrote "Post-Intellectualism and the Decline of Democracy: The Failure of Reason and Responsibility in the Twentieth Century" in 1996. [Dan] Having not read Donald Wood's book I cannot comment on it other than to note it was written some 18 years ago and so might well be outdated. [Arlo] To be clear, I have not read Wood's book, nor was I making any connection between his use of "post-intellectualism" and Pirsig's philosophy. I was simply pointing out that the term "post-intellectualism" has appeared in the literature, and quite a while back. Any attempt to appropriate this term to describe Pirsig has to account for how the term is used in the literature. There are many "post-" philosophies out there. "Post-technological", "post-consumerism", "post-industrial" (of course)... I've been reading some articles lately on "post-postmodernism" (which has its own Wikipedia page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-postmodernism). Overall, I think the use of "post-" to demonstrate an initial cleave with a dominant ideology is an appropriate first-step, but its a definition by negation; defining "this" as "not that". It provides a point of departure, but not a point of destination. Anyway, for an interesting article on post-postmodernism, check out Alan Kirby's "The Death of Postmodernism and Beyond" (http://philosophynow.org/issues/58/The_Death_of_Postmodernism_And_Beyond). (DMB- I think either you or one of the other Partially-Examined Life moderators shared this article maybe a couple of months back?) Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org/md/archives.html
