
Drew Dalton
American philosopher and professor of English at Indiana University Bloomington, author of The Matter of Evil: From Speculative Realism to Ethical Pessimism (Northwestern UP, 2024).
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May 17, 2026
Drew M. Dalton, "The Matter of Evil: From Speculative Realism to Ethical Pessimism" (Northwestern UP, 2024)
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Drew DaltonGUEST
Let me start by, first of all, saying I'm suspicious of the word postmodernity in general.

Drew DaltonGUEST
So when we say that there's a sense in which Kant is a proto-postmodernist, I just want to push back and say I think the only way in which I think the word postmodernity means anything salient is to say that it is an attempt to reckon with the consequences of modernity.

Drew DaltonGUEST
That's really the only thing that seems to unify the broad swath of thinkers that are considered postmodernists.
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