Postmodernism
noun
A type of philosophy and art that came after modernism and challenges traditional ideas.
His artwork reflects the principles of postmodernism, incorporating elements from various styles and eras.
Often appears as...
- postmodernism in art
- principles of postmodernism
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Academic
noun
An attitude or trend in the mid- to late 20th century that rejects the idea of universal truth.
Postmodernism tends to view truth as constructed rather than absolute.
Often appears as...
- postmodernism and truth
- postmodernism in literature
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Academic
noun
A type of philosophy and art that came after modernism and challenges traditional ideas.
His artwork reflects the principles of postmodernism, incorporating elements from various styles and eras.
Often appears as...
- postmodernism in art
- principles of postmodernism
Usage tips
Academic
noun
An attitude or trend in the mid- to late 20th century that rejects the idea of universal truth.
Postmodernism tends to view truth as constructed rather than absolute.
Often appears as...
- postmodernism and truth
- postmodernism in literature
Usage tips
Academic
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Pro Tip 1/3Chronological Placement
Understand that postmodernism follows modernism, reacting against its ideals.
Her novel moved beyond modernism to explore postmodernism ideas.
Pro Tip 2/3Artistic Fusion
Postmodernism often mixes different artistic styles and periods together.
The building's design is postmodernism, combining art deco with minimalist styles.
Pro Tip 3/3Questioning Norms
It questions established norms and conventions in philosophy and art.
His postmodernism approach led him to question the rules of traditional painting.
Pro Tip 1/3Chronological Placement
Understand that postmodernism follows modernism, reacting against its ideals.
Her novel moved beyond modernism to explore postmodernism ideas.
Pro Tip 2/3Artistic Fusion
Postmodernism often mixes different artistic styles and periods together.
The building's design is postmodernism, combining art deco with minimalist styles.
Pro Tip 3/3Questioning Norms
It questions established norms and conventions in philosophy and art.
His postmodernism approach led him to question the rules of traditional painting.
Pro Tip 1/3Chronological Placement
Understand that postmodernism follows modernism, reacting against its ideals.
Her novel moved beyond modernism to explore postmodernism ideas.
Pro Tip 2/3Artistic Fusion
Postmodernism often mixes different artistic styles and periods together.
The building's design is postmodernism, combining art deco with minimalist styles.
Pro Tip 3/3Questioning Norms
It questions established norms and conventions in philosophy and art.
His postmodernism approach led him to question the rules of traditional painting.
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Frank Gehry: From 1990,...
I mean, the story I tell is that I got mad at postmodernism -- at po-mo -- and said that fish were 500 million years earlier than man,
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Frank Gehry: From 1990,...
I mean, the story I tell is that I got mad at postmodernism -- at po-mo -- and said that fish were 500 million years earlier than man,
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Bret Weinstein
The button-down empirical and deductive fields, including all the hard sciences, have lived side by side with 'critical theory,' postmodernism and its perception-based relatives. Since the creation in 1960s and '70s of novel, justice-oriented fields, these incompatible worldviews have repelled one another.
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Alexandra Petri
American Journalist
Thanks to postmodernism, we tend to see all facts as meaningless trivia, no one more vital than any other. Yet this disregard for facts qua facts is intellectually crippling. Facts are the raw material of thought, and the knowledge of significant facts makes sophisticated thought possible.
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Mark Fisher
British Writer
Postmodernism is, of course, the dead end from which hauntology starts - but one of its role is to denaturalise what postmodernism has taken for granted, to conceive of postmodernism as a condition in the sense of a sickness.
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Jane Goldman
English Writer
Japanese horror films take the business of being frightening seriously. There is no attempt at postmodernism or humour. They are incredibly melancholy, with a strong emotional core, while remaining absolutely terrifying.
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Miguel Syjuco
Filipino Writer
Postmodernism was a reaction to modernism. Where modernism was about objectivity, postmodernism was about subjectivity. Where modernism sought a singular truth, postmodernism sought the multiplicity of truths.
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Jean-Francois Lyotard
French Philosopher
A work can become modern only if it is first postmodern. Postmodernism thus understood is not modernism at its end but in the nascent state, and this state is constant.
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Twyla Tharp
American Dancer
There's this expression called postmodernism, which is kind of silly, and destroys a perfectly good word called modern, which now no longer means anything.
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Catharine MacKinnon
American Activist
Postmodernism is an academic theory, originating in academia with an academic elite, not in the world of women and men, where feminist theory is rooted.
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Stanley Hauerwas
American Theologian
I confess I take perverse delight as a theologian in the controversies surrounding postmodernism.
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Scott Turow
American Novelist
Postmodernism cost literature its audience.
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Bret Weinstein
The button-down empirical and deductive fields, including all the hard sciences, have lived side by side with 'critical theory,' postmodernism and its perception-based relatives. Since the creation in 1960s and '70s of novel, justice-oriented fields, these incompatible worldviews have repelled one another.
Quote examples
Alexandra Petri
American Journalist
Thanks to postmodernism, we tend to see all facts as meaningless trivia, no one more vital than any other. Yet this disregard for facts qua facts is intellectually crippling. Facts are the raw material of thought, and the knowledge of significant facts makes sophisticated thought possible.
Quote examples
Mark Fisher
British Writer
Postmodernism is, of course, the dead end from which hauntology starts - but one of its role is to denaturalise what postmodernism has taken for granted, to conceive of postmodernism as a condition in the sense of a sickness.
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Jane Goldman
English Writer
Japanese horror films take the business of being frightening seriously. There is no attempt at postmodernism or humour. They are incredibly melancholy, with a strong emotional core, while remaining absolutely terrifying.
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Miguel Syjuco
Filipino Writer
Postmodernism was a reaction to modernism. Where modernism was about objectivity, postmodernism was about subjectivity. Where modernism sought a singular truth, postmodernism sought the multiplicity of truths.
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Jean-Francois Lyotard
French Philosopher
A work can become modern only if it is first postmodern. Postmodernism thus understood is not modernism at its end but in the nascent state, and this state is constant.
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Twyla Tharp
American Dancer
There's this expression called postmodernism, which is kind of silly, and destroys a perfectly good word called modern, which now no longer means anything.
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Catharine MacKinnon
American Activist
Postmodernism is an academic theory, originating in academia with an academic elite, not in the world of women and men, where feminist theory is rooted.
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Stanley Hauerwas
American Theologian
I confess I take perverse delight as a theologian in the controversies surrounding postmodernism.
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Scott Turow
American Novelist
Postmodernism cost literature its audience.
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