Comments on: Twilightenment http://larison.org/2007/05/28/twilightenment/ n. the principle of good order "Observe the strange inversion of all order and sense! Dignity debased; how vilely is the function of a consul prostituted!" ~The Craftsman Tue, 07 Oct 2008 06:27:11 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.4 by: Solent http://larison.org/2007/05/28/twilightenment/#comment-6767 Mon, 28 May 2007 23:05:28 +0000 http://larison.org/2007/05/28/twilightenment/#comment-6767 There are important ways in which postmodernity is best understood as an extension of Enlightenment modernity rather than a rejection--undercutting the thrust of B.'s point--but there are certainly borad and readily observable parallels between C-E thought and postmodernism regarding the rejection of the autonomous/unitary/universal self. As for suspicion of reason, I don't know who exactly Bottum refers to here, but C-E hero Hamann's views on language and reason also have interesting parallels in postmodern thought. There are important ways in which postmodernity is best understood as an extension of Enlightenment modernity rather than a rejection–undercutting the thrust of B.’s point–but there are certainly borad and readily observable parallels between C-E thought and postmodernism regarding the rejection of the autonomous/unitary/universal self.

As for suspicion of reason, I don’t know who exactly Bottum refers to here, but C-E hero Hamann’s views on language and reason also have interesting parallels in postmodern thought.

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