Patterson's jurisprudence is built on foundations that modernism long ago abandoned, having assumed that skepticism had made them untenable. Ironically, it is precisely skepticism that has killed the project of the modern and that, along with self-reference, characterizes the faith of the postmodern.

XREF: Relates to wider discussions of postmodernism and its relationship to Enlightenment/modernist skepticism about foundations.

Philip Chase Bobbitt, Philip Chase Bobbitt - Refl…, loc. 394