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Entry: Postmodern, Not Hypermodern: Russell Kirk Link: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/postmodern_not_hypermodern_russell_kirk#14128 Post contents: My point is that it seems a bit imprudent & futile, to me, to go about saying to people, "Jacques Derrida isn't really post-modern -- he's *hypermodern*. Now if you're really searching for a thinker who's a real *postmodern*, you should look into Russell Kirk." In the meantime everyone will go right on referring to Derrida as a postmodern, and to Kirk as "just another conservative" who hates liberalism. Seems to me -- if we want to spend much thought on such things-- that it'd make more sense to refer to Kirk's thought as transmodern or metamodern or something else that hasn't already been "taken", so to speak. Sent at: 2008 07 20