Deconstructing Post-Modernism: Gellner and Crocodile Dundee
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A paragraph on the negative side of Romanticism, however, is in order, since Romanticism is negative at base: it developed in understandable disillusionment over the excessively optimistic claims of the Enlightenment after the fiasco of the French Revolution and its aftermath. Its discontent was wider than the Enlightenment, however: it was a discontent with civilization as such, as was argued by Sigmund Freud in Civilization and its Discontents. The discontent, Freud suggested, was understandable: civilization is repressive: we inculcate in our charges a disastrous distaste for food and for sex. There is no dissent from Freud on this; it is obviously in our tradition to create in our charges distaste for the appetites we share with other animals; thus, the continuing appeal of these appetites creates "animalism," the desire to emulate other animals all the way, expressed, for example, in the writings of Count Gobineau and of D.H. Lawrence. This negativism, understandable as it is (and Lawrence autobiographical Sons and Lovers makes it hard not to sympathize with it), has no saving grace. Yet Romanticism also has something positive to offer: a search for integration, meaning, dealienation. Can the positive ideas of Romanticism possibly be detached from the negative? Post-modernism is an attempt to answer this affirmatively and in detail. The question deserves a better treatment.
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