Introduction to Postmodernism
Hello,
I recently finished your book “Two Carts and a Hot Air Balloon” about the conflict between postmodernism and Judaism.
The book is excellent and I personally really enjoyed reading it and learned a lot from it. But I feel like I’m missing something.
As someone who lives in the postmodern era, I experience postmodernism in many different ways, and hence the contrast with Judaism (or synthetic thinking in general, which the religious person is accustomed to) and also the motivation to put things in order, which the book does very successfully. What I lack, however (which I think is a subject that is perhaps not sufficiently addressed in the book), is a deep understanding of postmodernism itself (which causes an inability to internally formulate this worldview and a lack of order in all the associations of this concept).
My question is, is there a book (or any other medium) in which one can systematically and in detail learn about the philosophical and historical development of postmodernism, different methods and understandings in postmodernism, analyze the positions of various postmodern thinkers, etc.?
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The thing is, I don't feel confident enough in completely denying the postmodern, precisely because I don't understand it enough. And I don't think you can deny something like that before you know it well and master it.
Ah, even if it's a cultural phenomenon (which, by the way, is also an analysis that requires knowledge of the postmodern to say) it still has certain roots, and it still has quite a bit of influence on the thinking and character of many people's thoughts.
I assume (from intuition, mostly) that in the end the root of postmodernism is one, and the differences are semantic or stem from errors in the analysis of concepts, but I don't know that, and I can argue convincingly (even to myself) against it. Apparently, in the end, such books don't say too much, but I still think that after reading them I will be wiser about this whole subject.
The only text I found in this context is the first part of the book "Religion Without Illusion". I would be grateful if you could enlighten me and refer me to additional books.
I can't recommend them to you because I haven't read them myself. I started a few of them until I realized they were nonsense. There's a book by David Gurvitz, and books and articles by Adi Ophir, and more. Search the web and you'll find dozens of them. I'm just suggesting that you watch the lecture I sent you, and try to examine my words when you read these essays. This is a recommended vaccination that gives you directions for checking what you're reading.
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