Moral Relativity Is a Hot Topic? True. Absolutely.. Stanley Fish, postmodern provocateur, has mounted a campaign to defend postmodernism. By Edward Rothstein.

First of all, Mr. Fish argues that my assertion that postmodernists challenge the existence of objective truth is all wrong, and so is my assertion that pomo has anything to do with relativism. Postmodernists do not deny the existence of truth, Mr. Fish declares, in fact he believes in it. What postmodernists do claim, he says, is that there is no "independent standard of objectivity." This means that there is no way a truth can be definitively proved to others.

[New York Times: Arts]

I've never understood the pomo crowd. Yes, I can't prove that a chair exists, but that doesn't justify crashing it in someone's head implying it doesn't exists.

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