Date: Wed, 4 May 1994 09:43:49 -0700
Sender: pen-l@ecst.csuchico.edu
From: egglesto@inst.augie.edu (Brian Eggleston)
Subject: PoMo
 
In his introduction to the SUNY series in Constructive Postmodern
Thought, editor David Ray Griffin, suggests that there are (at least)
two postmodernisms.  One, which he argues is closely related to the
"literary-artistic postmodernism" is what he terms "deconstructive or
eliminative postmodernism."  This is the PoMo of Derrida and other
French thinkers.  The other postmodernism is "constructive or
revisionary postmodernism" which he argues "provides support for the
ecology, peace, feminist and other emancipatory movements of our time,
while stressing that the inclusive emancipation must be from modernity
itself."
 
Perhaps this distinction is a useful one.
 
Brian Eggleston