Re: of interest2

Greetings,

If postmodernism is about 'opening up' spaces hitherto suppressed and neglected and the very logic of presentation is going to be based on the 'internal necessity' of the re-presented thing without any clear relation or connection to the Grand Narrative of Being and Existence and the 'Social' in its secular version then we should admit that it is not impossible everyone would present his/her own logic without taking into consideration the Logic. Becasue it has been argued that there is no such thing as Logic but logics. I think the interest lies in the fact that the Logic of Secular Frame of Weltbild has collapsed and we will see more of these actions,or intrusions if you wish, within contemporary public sphere in the Late Modernity of Capitalism. Hope this made the point clearer.

kind regards

seyedjavad

From: francesco ranci

To: Seyed Javad

CC: wsn@csf.colorado.edu

Subject: Re: of interest

Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2003 00:13:53 -0800 (PST)

I'm sorry, I can't figure it out: What does the

meaning of "postmodern critique" have to do with this

piece of news ? Could you please explain ?

Best Regards,

Francesco Ranci

--- Seyed Javad wrote:

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Greetings,

Within academia there have been many who argued that

the postmodern critique is nothing but a shambolic

move by some irrationalists who don't comprehend the

very basic assumptions of knowledge pursuit. So,

whatever the popularity of their criticism there would

not be any social consequences of 'postmodern' kind.

But I found this article of interest and I think there

is more to the deabtes of relativism versus

rationalism and the respective consequences of each

within political sphere are to be seen, both locally

as well as globally, no?

November 14, 2003

Judicial Courage in Alabama

he Court of the Judiciary in Alabama acted

courageously yesterday when it removed Roy Moore,

widely known as the Ten Commandments judge, as chief

justice of the Alabama Supreme Court. Given Mr.

Moore's knack for demagoguery, and the large following

he has attracted, it would have been far easier to

dodge the issue. But the court rightly found that Mr.

Moore lacked the most basic requirement for judicial

office: respect for the rule of law.

Mr. Moore gained notoriety by putting a Ten

Commandments monument the size of a washing machine in

the Alabama Supreme Court's rotunda. When two federal

courts ordered it removed because it violated the

separation of church and state, he refused, asserting

"state sovereignty."

The nine-member Court of the Judiciary - made up

of Democrats and Republicans, some of them elected

officials - had to vote unanimously to remove Mr.

Moore and, impressively, it did. It is not the only

Alabama institution to do the right thing in this

case. The judicial ethics commission suspended him

from office in August. And Attorney General William

Pryor Jr., once a Moore supporter, prosecuted the case

in the Court of the Judiciary.

Mr. Moore's "state sovereignty" claim never had

any validity, but even he should see that it is

ludicrous now that Alabama's own judicial authorities

have ruled against him. He has promised an

announcement next week that "could alter the course of

this country." He refused to elaborate, but he should

know that Americans have a respect for the rule of law

that will not be dislodged easily.

The same Constitution that Mr. Moore showed

contempt for guarantees his right to say whatever he

wants about the federal courts and church-state

doctrine. But thanks to the nine members of the Court

of the Judiciary, he will now be excoriating the law

in a more appropriate capacity, as a private citizen.

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