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Originally Posted by demonrail666
That's probably true, and all the people mentioned so far have borrowed from those before them anyway. Even so, a generation usually either throws up or adopts an intellectual figurehead of its own. The 50s had the existentialists, the 60-70s had the new left, the 80s-90s the postmodern lot. I suppose today the dominant issue is globalization, so whoever it is it's going to come out of debates around that. Chomsky is the obvious candidate then, I suppose.
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Going with globalization as the defining issue of our time, chomsky wouldn't be a bad choice... i'm not that big a fan of his linguistics, but i do enjoy his political writings. i'd go with gayatri spivak, though. even though she translated
of grammatology in 1976, she didn't start writing exstensively about the post-colonial condition until the 90s. and
a critique of postcolonial reason (which i'm trying to work my way through now) came out in 1999. ...maybe, edward said, posthumously... i'm not that familiar with his work.
really jon stewart's not a bad choice either. ...i hope this writer's strike doesn't last too much longer... where am i supposed to get my news from?