[derrida]

Variations of those same criticisms have been made of the works of Kant, Kierkegard, Hegel, and Nietzche since their inception.

What amazes me, OAO, is your refusal to engage primary texts while systematically dismissing such a disparate and nedbulous movement as post-modernism with sweeping generalization.

In an attempt to respond to your post, however, postmodernism doesn't really privilege itself in the terms described by Ms. Rosenau. Instead, it can be stated that postmodernism- and the critical tradition from which it draws is simply a discourse on the subject of power, serving certain distinct tactical needs.