ABSTRACT

This chapter offers a preview of how a thoroughly radicalized, thoroughly politicized, emancipatory dramaturgical analysis can be made to enhance social relationships and the human project rather than betray them in politics, sport, religion, social science, and in society generally. It also offers a vision of a postmodern philosophy of life that resonates with the poetic genius of William Blake, the prosocial praxis of Karl Marx, the strong democracy of Bernard Barber, and the wholeness of mind of the feminists. In the art world, the impressionists, the abstractionists, and the cubists offered a postmodern form of art. The very beginnings of modern science and logic came with Aristotle, Zeno, Plato, and Pythagoras. Rather than the majesty of the gods, the early philosophers saw majesty in the perfection of logic, mathematics, astronomy, and later physical science. Postmodern thought receives its scientific cachet from Chaos Theory if such thought needs a science or a theory to endorse it.