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Abstract
[Editors' Introduction]
In order to provide any viable critique of twenty-first-century discourses -- whether signified by late capitalism, epistemological hegemony, cultural domination, or globalization (the catch-word for all of these) -- one must not employ an ahistorical or static lens; alternatively, one must dredge up and analyze the sediments that underlie current discourses, and many of these sediments are found in the eighteenth century. More specifically, by reading the thoughts of such writers as Joseph Addison and Jonathan Swift, one is forced to read the links and antipathies between the discursive economies of epistemology -- philosophical, scientific, and economic -- which opened the way for multiple liberations but also for bourgeois-liberal globalization (postmodern imperialism). Consequently, people in the post-industrial West, particularly those on the political left, must answer the ethical and political call brought forth by postmodern currencies of knowledge.
Recommended Citation
Lanier-Nabors, Benjamin G. "Portals to Knowledge: Confluence and Conflict between Enlightenment and Postmodern Currencies." Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture, vol. 4, no. 4, 2004, pp. 1–26.https://digitalcommons.odu.edu/reconstruction/vol4/iss4/4
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