I've tried once again to pin down my anti-Socratism over at The Gadfly. I've got a little bit more up my sleeve, but pursuing this track is always a little bit frustrating because I have this persistent feeling that the argument I want to make is just out of reach.
I picked up Peter Lawler's Postmodernism Rightly Understood from the UNC library, and it exacerbates this frustration, because I think I could easily lay out the argument I want to make if only I knew as much as Dr. Lawler. But, of course, I have to read books like this if I'm every going to get there.
(Also: I think I now understand completely what the “postmodern” in “postmodern conservative” means, even though I'm not going to use the word that way if I can help it.)
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Gonna agree with you on the word "postmodern" and Dr. Lawler's book. It comes to close to cheating to simply redefine it to mean what he wants/needs it to. Not to mention confusing. But it is intriguing, and I do feel I have a much better grasp on what they're talking about on that blog now.
Yeah, they should really put a link to that book in the sidebar or something, especially considering how many confused comments I've seen there.
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