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When Enlightenment, Marxist, religious or nationalist stories lose power, what’s left? Dillon Stengel explores how postmodernism dismantles “grand narratives”—skepticism, deconstruction, power dynamics—and opens space for new, diverse ways of knowing. https://brainwaveboost.info #Postmodernism #GrandNarrative #Philosophy #Lyotard #Foucault #Derrida #CriticalTheory #Plurality #IntellectualHistory #MindShift

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Two camps, one philosophy: analytic vs continental. From Frege’s logic to Heidegger’s existentialism, this split defined 20th-century Western thought. Why did it happen? How do their methods differ? And can these traditions be reconciled? Explore the history and significance of this divide. 🔗 Full article → https://dillonstips.info/analytic-vs-continental-philosophy/ #Philosophy #AnalyticVsContinental #PhilosophyHistory #CriticalThinking

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🧠 "One side wants logic. The other wants life." • Why philosophers stopped speaking the same language • Logic vs lived experience: the 20th-century split • Is the divide healing—or just evolving?

🔗 Discover how philosophy fractured (and why it still matters): [Link] #DeepThinking #PhilosophySplit #ContinentalsVsAnalytics

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🔥 "Nietzsche didn’t predict postmodernism—he detonated it."

How a Greek scholar dismantled Western metaphysics

“God is dead” decoded (and why it matters now)

Language, power, and the rise of perspective over truth

🔗 Enter Nietzsche’s mind-bending evolution: https://dillonstips.info/nietzsche-postmodernism/

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🧬 “Culture isn’t chaos—it’s code.” Language as structure 🗣️ Myths as math 🔢 Texts as systems 📚 Structuralism flipped the humanities upside down:

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Locke: "Life, liberty, property!" (whispers: "for land-owning white men") Voltaire: "Free speech!" (except for women, peasants, or Jews in some letters) Rousseau: "All men are equal!" (abandons 5 kids at orphanage)

The Enlightenment was messy. These philosophers gave us: ✓ The blueprint for modern democracy ✓ The hypocrisy playbook ✓ The tools to critique their own blind spots

Kant’s "categorical imperative" is why your mutuals argue "human rights are universal" while reblogging niche discourse.

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⚖️ "When philosophers contradict themselves gloriously" Rousseau: "Man is born free!" Also Rousseau: Abandons 5 kids to orphanage The Enlightenment in a nutshell—noble ideals, messy humans.