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I think if Foucault had waited until he could demonstrate everything he said with proofs and experiments he would have failed to the same extent as a physicist
by jrumbut 6y ago
I think if Foucault had waited until he could demonstrate everything he said with proofs and experiments he would have failed to the same extent as a physicist who makes provocative claims without any evidence.
There are endeavors that call for lots of rigor and little creativity and others that call for the opposite. Not everyone has those two qualities at the same time so there has to be some division of labor.
- AnimalMuppet 6y agoOK, but... at some point, don't you have to start caring about correspondence to reality? Or is Postmodernism the String Theory of philosophy, that it can go on for decades untethered by any connection to the actual world?
- jrumbut 6y agoI have no idea about string theory or how it ties into this but if it's untethered from the actual world yet provides new perspectives and poses new questions that (on occasion) yield new avenues for inquiry I think that it's practical and important even if it isn't true on its own. Also something can be great for other reasons but I am focusing on why someone who cares solely about the advancement of science should love Dadaism and critical theory.