SKSJ 1023

Pengantar Teori Politik

Teori Pasca-moden
(post-modernism)
 Post-modernism

An elusive idea; difficult to define.

Not a theory neither a concept
Skeptical attitude (do not trust any
attempts to build a theory that is trying
to define social phenomena)
 Post-modernism

Mark the end of modern era

It is an era after modern
repudiate modern epistemology
 Comparative

Modern criteria
Objective
Empirical
Valueladen (provided with evidence)
Measureable
 Post-modernism

Post-modern criteria:
 Displace
 Decenter
 Weaken

vBelieves that existing theories or concepts

fail to validate the ultimate truth.
 Post-modernism

Scholars that promote post-modernism are:

 Jacques Derrida
 Michel Foucalt
 Edward Said

v Apply the “deconstructive technique” critically to remove mode,

category and normative concept in western perspectives.
 Post-modernism

Foucalt & Said

 Western perspectives define social identities
based on their norms and believes, thus
ignore other non-western groups’ identities.
 Thus, what is right to you may not be to
other
 And what is right (truth)?
 Post-modernism

Intention:
Expose a universal identity;
disciplined it based on post-
modernism standard.
 Post-modernism

Political orientation is divided into 3 categories:

 Left
 Right
 Liberal

vFabric of contradictory and problematic concept

of reasons.
vIrony
vparadox
 Post-modernism

Produce a curious paradox

Constructive engagement across
disciplines – race, gender, class, legal
reasoning, legal truth, etc.
Law represents different cultural
practices; norm and ideologies.
 conclusion

“truth cannot be empirically verified by

the simple process of closeness of fit of
the arguments to the evidence”
“Evidence is a contingent social
construction”
vSo, there is no truth…