Beyond Reason — Hume, Seth, Macmurray and Scotland’s Postmodernity
In: Scotland in Theory
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Cairns Craig
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Abstract
Scottish literature has a long tradition of presciently “postmodern” devices and techniques. This is puzzling for contemporary theory, which locates postmodern literature and thought in a post-Kantian context. Scotland, however, has its own postmodern tradition in philosophers whose response to Hume is more plausible than Kant’s phenomenalism. Their distinctive Scottish philosophy of the self as social agent is the foundation of Scotland’s truly postmodern literary tradition.