What Is Postmodern Biblical Criticism?
In What Is Postmodern Biblical Criticism?, A.K.M. Adam lays out some very helpful (and readable) content on postmodern hermeneutics. For instance, in Chapter One, he uses a three-part typology from Cornel West to explain postmodernism:
Antifoundational: PM “resolutely refuses to posit any one premise as the privileged and unassailable starting point for establishing claims to truth.”
Antitotalizing: PM “suspects that any theory that claims to account for everything is suppressing counterexamples, or is applying warped criteria so that it can include recalcitrant cases.
Demystifying: PM “attends to claims that certain assumptions are ‘natural’ and tries to show that these are in fact ideological projections.”
I am most interested in the new "Disseminary" that he promotes on his blog. Do you think they give tenure?
Antifoundational: PM “resolutely refuses to posit any one premise as the privileged and unassailable starting point for establishing claims to truth.”
Antitotalizing: PM “suspects that any theory that claims to account for everything is suppressing counterexamples, or is applying warped criteria so that it can include recalcitrant cases.
Demystifying: PM “attends to claims that certain assumptions are ‘natural’ and tries to show that these are in fact ideological projections.”
I am most interested in the new "Disseminary" that he promotes on his blog. Do you think they give tenure?
posted by tony at 2:43 PM
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Aren't these self-referentially incoherent? The Antifoundational typology is foundational! "There are no starting points" is itself a starting point. The Antitotalizing typology is totalizing! "Theories which account for everything are suspect" is itself a theory attempting to account for everything. The Demystifying typology is mystifying! "Natural assumptions are ideological projections" is itself an ideological projection.
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