Hi all
A philosophical query: in postmodern/contemporary cultural theory one comes across the notion of a 'crisis of representation.' Yet is this a new phenomenon? Isn't there already a 'crisis of representation' with Plato's allegory of the cave, and later, with Kant's concept of the noumenon, with the unrepresentability of the thing itself ('das Ding an sich') ? So in this respect, what would be new about this crisis today?
Thanks for all your thoughts,
Henry
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