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DESCRIPTION:Post-modernism is an umbrella term for a set of ideas, beliefs, attitudes, 
 that began to crystallize as a movement, even a “theory,” in the '60s. 
 Critical of the underlying absolutist and totalizing metaphysical 
 assumptions of the philosophic tradition concerning the nature of 
 knowledge, reality, and values, it has been seen as a threat to the 
 foundational assumptions of Marxism as well. By examining the views of 
 Nietzsche, Heidegger, and Derrida — thinkers who are identified as 
 postmodernists and interpreted variously as apolitical, reactionary, 
 nihilistic, or all three — we can better judge whether their views 
 undermine liberatory political goals or, rather, have affinities with 
 Marxism’s own critique of the philosophic tradition. We might even decide 
 that postmodern critiques provide Marxism with a more radical, more 
 critical, edge than it would have by resisting them.\n\nPresented by Sandra 
 Luft, Humanities professor at SF State.\n\n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2007/11/14/18461091.php
SUMMARY:What is Post-modernism? And why is it so threatening to Marxism? Or is it?
LOCATION:Event takes place at the Niebyl-Proctor Library located at 6501 Telegraph 
 Ave. (just north of Alcatraz) in Oakland.  Wheelchair accessible.  Free 
 event\n
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2007/11/14/18461091.php
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