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Nihilism

In Our Time: Philosophy

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The Postmodernists as Enemies of Hope

It seems to me that it is time to query yet again the foundations that Nietzsche was querying. The question about whether there are absolute moral grounds or grounds for belief in God and laws of nature. Raymond Thomas, why do you call the postmodernists an emitter of hope? Because they really undermine the two planks of enlightenment. Both those things are undermined by postmodernism. And so that's why I think see them as enemies of hope.

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