Postmodern Movement

A Postmodern Movement is a Western-world intellectual movement in the mid- to late 20th century that focuses on socially constructed knowledge.

• Context:
  • It can (typically) suggest that many Knowledge Claims are products of social, historical or political discourses or interpretations.
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• Counter-Example(s):
  • Early Modernism.
• See: Criticism, Skepticism, Irony, Grand Narrative, Ideology, Universalism.

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References

2017

• (Wikipedia, 2017) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/postmodernism Retrieved:2017-11-12.
  • Postmodernism describes a broad movement that developed in the mid- to late 20th century across philosophy, the arts, architecture and criticism which marked a departure from modernism. While encompassing a broad range of ideas, postmodernism is typically defined by an attitude of skepticism, irony or rejection toward grand narratives, ideologies and various tenets of universalism, including objective notions of reason, human nature, social progress, moral universalism, absolute truth, and objective reality. Instead, it asserts to varying degrees that claims to knowledge and truth are products of social, historical or political discourses or interpretations, and are therefore contextual or socially constructed. Accordingly, postmodern thought is broadly characterized by tendencies to epistemological and moral relativism, pluralism, irreverence and self-referentiality. The term postmodernism has been applied both to the era following modernity and to a host of movements within that era (mainly in art, music, and literature) that reacted against tendencies in modernism. Postmodernism includes skeptical critical interpretations of culture, literature, art, philosophy, history, linguistics, economics, architecture, fiction, feminist theory, and literary criticism. Postmodernism is often associated with schools of thought such as deconstruction and post-structuralism, as well as philosophers such as Jean-François Lyotard, Jacques Derrida, and Frederic Jameson.

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