‘The
word ‘post-modernism’ is shorthand for three philosophical theses.
Against Descartes, it is resolutely ‘non-foundational’: our beliefs
and practices are felicitous but contingent arrangements made in
the face of the changing tides and circumstances in which we find
ourselves. They do not rest on some deep unshakable
ahistorical ground, especially not Descartes’ cogito …
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