The Rhetorical Strategies and the Misleading Nature of Attacks on `Postmodernism': A Reply to Østerud
As a reaction to Østerud's attack on `postmodernism', it is argued that post-structuralism, Critical Theory and critical realism should be seen as important responses to the crisis of positivism and modernity. Even the few `postmodernists' who would be willing to defend the idea that it is only thought and discourses that matter or that `anything goes' or that we should stop talking about truths have been able to contribute to transformations of understandings in a constructive way. Even though some of the actual critical-reflective analyses have been rather conventional, there is much room for producing even better critical-reflectivist studies in the future. However, Østerud's loaded terms have effects of power: there is an unjustified tendency to silence the emerging latemodern interpretative and explanatory possibilities.
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1997
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Authors: | Patomäki, Heikki |
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Journal of Peace Research. - Peace Research Institute Oslo. - Vol. 34.1997, 3, p. 325-329
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Peace Research Institute Oslo |
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