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  • Escape from Modernity: How Subcomandante Marcos’ Tales Challenge the Grand Narrative and Individualism

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    Di Piramo, Daniela
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    Di Piramo, Daniela
    Year published
    2009
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    Modernity has long been under attack: several eminent scholars, including Nietzsche, Heidegger, Derrida, Lyotard and Foucault have engaged in intense critiques that involve the use of language, the role of reason, methodology and power practices. One of these themes concerns the much revered role of grand narratives or metanarratives in modernity and, this is particularly relevant for political theorists, Jean Fran篩s Lyotard in The Postmodern Condition argues that political ideologies themselves are grand narratives. By using discourse as a means of resistance and by "living the practice", Subcomandante Marcos challenges the ...
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    Modernity has long been under attack: several eminent scholars, including Nietzsche, Heidegger, Derrida, Lyotard and Foucault have engaged in intense critiques that involve the use of language, the role of reason, methodology and power practices. One of these themes concerns the much revered role of grand narratives or metanarratives in modernity and, this is particularly relevant for political theorists, Jean Fran篩s Lyotard in The Postmodern Condition argues that political ideologies themselves are grand narratives. By using discourse as a means of resistance and by "living the practice", Subcomandante Marcos challenges the necessity for a grand narrative and a grand narrator in politics. His writings, particularly the Mayan-inspired tales, have captured the imagination of millions of readers worldwide. Heavily critical of vanguards and "armchair revolutionaries" who consciously or otherwise avert rather than create "genuine" revolutions, he seems to suggest that the quicksand of modernity swallows the impetus for progressive change, allowing the status quo to continue and the existing oppressive power relations to be perpetuated. This paper asks whether we could or should regard Subcomandante Marcos as making a contribution to political philosophy and how we might understand him in this regard. It is concluded that Marcos takes the postmodern critique of modernity seriously, but while he is relatively successful and original in challenging the conventional approach to political philosophy, his discourse reveals that he does not, indeed could not, completely escape the grand narrative and the individualism that, for a long time, have characterised Western political thought.
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    Conference Title
    Escape from Modernity: How Subcomandante Marcos’ Tales Challenge the Grand Narrative and Individualism
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    http://www.pol.mq.edu.au/apsa/index.html
    Subject
    Political Theory and Political Philosophy
    Publication URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/28285
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