Postmodernizmin Yanılsamaları

We sensed that the postmodern style of thought that we were told we could apply to understand the era of transnational capitalism in which we were caught up in the vortex contained many strange and contradictory dimensions. The most obvious element of this strangeness essentially stemmed from criticism of Enlightenment ideas. Even though the criticisms against scientism, foundationalism, universalism, totality, identical-thinking, the autonomous and composite subject, and the like were largely expressed in terms we were unfamiliar with or in a style of discourse we were unfamiliar with, we were not unfamiliar with the contents of these criticisms. But for some reason, socialists were offended by these criticisms. However... It was we who raised the flag of rebellion against modern civilization, claiming that the ideals of freedom, equality and brotherhood, crowned by the bourgeoisie with the French revolution, could not develop within the framework of given social regulations. We were the ones who, by revealing that "man" is a bourgeois abstraction, entered into theoretical-political struggles to give justice to the result: sensible particularity. We were the ones who researched in which concrete contexts the ideal that called for the universal liberation of humanity could be made real, and who put our lives on the line by initiating epic struggles for this cause. Ours was a tradition that, on the one hand, tried to make dominant all over the world a social mechanism that swept away all the values of the past, and on the other hand, analyzed in all its complexity the brutality created by the bourgeoisie, which did not want to give up peace and guarantees, and looked without blinking at the abyss created by this reality. The first people to rebel against the fact that socialism, which was attempted to be built under unfavorable and even theoretically impossible conditions, turned into a bureaucratic state apparatus and petrified, were also revolutionary theorists and militants within our tradition. So, how come it was that socialists were the first to be offended by the criticism arrows of postmodern thought? Why did the task of defending a rationalist, positivist and pragmatist Enlightenment fall on the shoulders of socialists? Just like his old masters, Eagleton, who is too knowledgeable and a convinced socialist to be surprised by a developed and sophisticated philosophical discourse, shows what is wrong while exhibiting the contradictions of postmodernism under its main headings with his ironic and satirical style. to us. While he exhibits everything that Marxist thought can and cannot offer with postmodernism, he does not neglect to give justice to his opponents for a moment. This book, in which the power of Marxist thought, which was caricatured by its enemies in order to be easily defeated, is exhibited both in spirit and in words, represents one of the most important stages of Marxism's showdown with the postmodern style of thought.



Number of Pages: 165

Year of Printing: 2015


Language: Turkish
Publisher: Details Publications

First Print Year: 2010

Number of Pages: 165

Language Turkish