This work explores the philosophical positions of five
postmodern thinkers--Lyotard, Rorty, Schrag, Foucault, and
Derrida--to show how their critiques imply that scholars are unduly
limited by the belief that inquiry is fundamentally about gaining
knowledge of phenomena that are assumed to exist prior to and
independent of inquiry, and to persist essentially unchanged by
inquiry. The author argues that there are good reasons why this
constraint is both unnecessary and undesirable, and he resituates
the disciplines within a more flexible foundation that would expand
what counts as legitimate inquiry. This foundation would emphasize
the inquirer as a cause of reality, not just an observer who aims
to accurately describe and explain phenomena. Mourad proposes an
intellectual and organizational form which he calls
post-disciplinary research programs. These dynamic programs would
be composed of scholars from diverse disciplines who collaborate to
juxtapose disparate disciplinary concepts in order to create
contexts for post-disciplinary inquries.
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