Feminism, Science, and Postmodernism
1989; University of Minnesota Press; Issue: 13 Linguagem: Inglês
10.2307/1354267
ISSN1460-2458
Autores Tópico(s)Contemporary Literature and Criticism
Resumoonald McCloskey turns to Umberto Eco for definition of postmodernism-that philosophical movement which, he says, recognizes science and romance as twin innocences, and which in that recognition enables us, finally, to grow up': postmodernism is the attitude, as Eco describes it, of a man who loves very cultivated woman and knows he cannot say to her, 'I love you madly,' because he knows that she knows (and that she knows that he knows) that these words have already been written by Barbara Cartland. Still, there is solution. He can say, 'As Barbara Cartland would put it, I love you madly.' . . . [H]e will have said . . . that he loves her, but he loves her in an age of innocence.2 But does he really love the woman, or is he just saying that he loves her? That we neither do nor can know; that he says he loves her is the most we can say and, hence, the most we can know. This is the meaning of lost innocence. By invoking
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