> Have you read Hanna
>Pikin's "Wittgenstein and Justice: On the Significace of Ludwig
>Wittgenstein for Social and Political Thought"?
I have the book, and read parts of it years ago... but haven't read it
recently. Good thought.
>I do have a little blurb on language games that I wrote for a handout in
>a class I taught. If people would like for me to post that, I'd be happy to.
I'd like to read your handout. Thanks.
snip....
>Well, I think that Freudian theory need not be treated as a "grand
>narrative". It is one when it becomes an authoritative source, however,
>as it often is, or has been. Is that what you mean about Marxism? Maybe
>you could tell us more what you have in mind here.
Marx was once asked what a "marxist" would say on a particular question....
His answer was... "I am not a 'Marxist'".
>> Thus, it appears to me that Marx was in fact speaking from a
>> post modern perspective of the conditions of empowerment.)
>
>To my way of thinking, that depends. It becomes a grand narrative when
>it becomes the truth that outweighs all else, when it provides the
>guideline of what is good without a continuous fresh review of contingent
>context.
That is exactly the point of Marx's theorizing, I think... which has been
taken by some others as an authoritative source of truth, rather than as a
methodology for continual reevaluation of the conditions of human
development.
Bob
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