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A Postmodern is a Rhetorical Modes that ...
- See: Age of Enlightenment, Rhetorical Modes, Philosophy & Rhetoric, Penn State University Press, Philosophical Skepticism, Meta-Narrative, Modernism, Epistemological, Meaning (Semiotics), Ideology, Britannica, Naïve Realism.
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- (Wikipedia, 2023) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postmodernism Retrieved:2023-7-19.
- Postmodernism is an intellectual stance or mode of discourse[1] characterized by skepticism toward the "grand narratives" of modernism; rejection of epistemic certainty or the stability of meaning; and sensitivity to the role of ideology in maintaining political power.[2] Claims to objectivity are dismissed as naïve realism, with attention drawn to the conditional nature of knowledge claims within particular historical, political, and cultural discourses.[3] The postmodern outlook is characterized by self-referentiality, epistemological relativism, moral relativism, pluralism, irony, irreverence, and eclecticism;[3] it rejects the "universal validity" of binary oppositions, stable identity, hierarchy, and categorization. Initially emerging from a mode of literary criticism, postmodernism developed in the mid-twentieth century as a rejection of modernism, and has been observed across many disciplines. Postmodernism is associated with the disciplines deconstruction and post-structuralism.[3] Various authors have criticized postmodernism as promoting obscurantism, as abandoning Enlightenment rationalism and scientific rigor, and as adding nothing to analytical or empirical knowledge. [4]