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The late Gillian Rose characterized the postmodern rejection of metaphysics as a triumph of social theory over philosophy, a triumphy that \u201cre-enacts the earlier reaction, coterminous with the founding of modernity, according to which philosophy after Kant was \u2018superseded\u2019 by social theory . . . . It resulted in the fateful diremption between the conceiving of law as regularity, as positive, and the conceiving of ethics, the ought and the good. The social theory and the philosophy which emerge from this diremption always attempt a forced reconciliation of that which they have made residual by their exclusive accentuation: Comte\u2019s positivist law would found a new Church, while Nietzsche\u2019s Zarathustra would invent New Law Tables.\u201d <\/p>\n
Philosophy, \u201coverunified under some title\u201d by postmodern theorists \u2013 onto-theology, presence, totalization, closure \u2013 \u201cis then indicted for this traditionalist pretension, and, once again, it is turned into social theory: \u2018truth\u2019 is revealed to be a value among values; \u2018rationality,\u2019 \u2018justice\u2019 and \u2018freedom\u2019 to be types of domination; the faculties of the soul to serve the administration of bodies; while reflexivity and conceptuality are said to be posited by \u2018discourses,\u2019 so that meaning is merely the mark of arbitrary, differential signalizations; philosophy of history is seen to be continuous, narratological confection of paralogical discontinuities.\u201d <\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The late Gillian Rose characterized the postmodern rejection of metaphysics as a triumph of social theory over philosophy, a triumphy that \u201cre-enacts the earlier reaction, coterminous with the founding of modernity, according to which philosophy after Kant was \u2018superseded\u2019 by social theory . . . . It resulted in the fateful diremption between the conceiving […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3021,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-philosophy"],"yoast_head":"\n