Postmodernism is old, let us go further : a pamphlet against decostructionism, constructivism, relativism, and methodological anarchism

2007
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dc.abstract.enThis paper means to be a collective and intercultural pamphlet against the postmodern approach to knowledge. However, our criticism - mainly directed at deconstructionism, constructivism, relativism and methodological anarchism - is not grounded in old positivistic philosophy. We are young scholars and students whose teachers were mainly postmodernists, therefore we accept some of their ideas, but we also feel it necessary to stress the many limits of this approach and its inadequacy to respond to the challenges of the present day. From our perspective, postmodernism is not a new approach that must be simply studied, but an old one that needs to be surpassed. One of the merits of postmodernism is that it showed that positivism was too dogmatic and optimistic with regards to the progress of knowledge and civilization. However, in responding to positivism, postmodernism has gone too far in producing skepticism and pessimism. In addition, postmodernism is paradoxical when rejecting the categories of truth and progress, while still considering itself to be an approach better than positivism. Up to now the argument used to defend its preferability was its novelty. But an idea that is forty years old and was already anticipated at the beginning of the twentieth century cannot be treated as new. For all of these reasons this paper should be seen as one of the first examples of post-postmodern thought.pl
dc.affiliationWydział Filozoficzny : Instytut Socjologiipl
dc.contributor.authorCampa, Riccardo - 127511 pl
dc.contributor.authorMazur, Lucas - 351182 pl
dc.contributor.authorOssowski, Michałpl
dc.contributor.authorReinelt, Joannapl
dc.contributor.authorLe Boulicaut, Mirabellepl
dc.contributor.authorJurczak, Annapl
dc.contributor.authorHołówka, Monikapl
dc.date.accessioned2019-07-05T10:32:23Z
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dc.date.issued2007pl
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dc.identifier.issn1427-7026pl
dc.identifier.projectROD UJ / OSpl
dc.identifier.urihttps://ruj.uj.edu.pl/xmlui/handle/item/78592
dc.languageengpl
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dc.titlePostmodernism is old, let us go further : a pamphlet against decostructionism, constructivism, relativism, and methodological anarchismpl
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This paper means to be a collective and intercultural pamphlet against the postmodern approach to knowledge. However, our criticism - mainly directed at deconstructionism, constructivism, relativism and methodological anarchism - is not grounded in old positivistic philosophy. We are young scholars and students whose teachers were mainly postmodernists, therefore we accept some of their ideas, but we also feel it necessary to stress the many limits of this approach and its inadequacy to respond to the challenges of the present day. From our perspective, postmodernism is not a new approach that must be simply studied, but an old one that needs to be surpassed. One of the merits of postmodernism is that it showed that positivism was too dogmatic and optimistic with regards to the progress of knowledge and civilization. However, in responding to positivism, postmodernism has gone too far in producing skepticism and pessimism. In addition, postmodernism is paradoxical when rejecting the categories of truth and progress, while still considering itself to be an approach better than positivism. Up to now the argument used to defend its preferability was its novelty. But an idea that is forty years old and was already anticipated at the beginning of the twentieth century cannot be treated as new. For all of these reasons this paper should be seen as one of the first examples of post-postmodern thought.
dc.affiliationpl
Wydział Filozoficzny : Instytut Socjologii
dc.contributor.authorpl
Campa, Riccardo - 127511
dc.contributor.authorpl
Mazur, Lucas - 351182
dc.contributor.authorpl
Ossowski, Michał
dc.contributor.authorpl
Reinelt, Joanna
dc.contributor.authorpl
Le Boulicaut, Mirabelle
dc.contributor.authorpl
Jurczak, Anna
dc.contributor.authorpl
Hołówka, Monika
dc.date.accessioned
2019-07-05T10:32:23Z
dc.date.available
2019-07-05T10:32:23Z
dc.date.issuedpl
2007
dc.date.openaccess
144
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po opublikowaniu
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7-8
dc.description.physicalpl
259-272
dc.description.pointspl
5
dc.description.publicationpl
0,75
dc.description.version
ostateczna wersja wydawcy
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1427-7026
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ROD UJ / OS
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https://ruj.uj.edu.pl/xmlui/handle/item/78592
dc.languagepl
eng
dc.language.containerpl
pol
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Udzielam licencji. Uznanie autorstwa - Użycie niekomercyjne - Na tych samych warunkach 4.0 Międzynarodowa
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CC-BY-NC-SA
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postmodernism
dc.subject.enpl
scepticism
dc.subject.enpl
philosophy of science
dc.subject.enpl
sociology of science
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Article
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Postmodernism is old, let us go further : a pamphlet against decostructionism, constructivism, relativism, and methodological anarchism
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Toruński Przegląd Filozoficzny
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