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How is art critical of life after modernity has ended?
Assuming valuable art is still being made, given it can no longer voice modernity except in a pastiche and irrelevance, in what way can it be utopian: by which I just mean capable of being read as a ...
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How does post modernism relate to post structuralism?
Going through the wikis of both, I get a similar feeling from both of them, but I can't put in words exactly how they are related. Here are simple introductions from wiki:
Postmodernism is an ...
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What is the difference between Modernism and Modernity?
Modernity began during the Renaissance, and was basically the dominance of humanism or human exceptionalism.
But a lot of things that are very different have been called Modernist. Fascism, Marxism ...
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Why didn't Nietzsche's work take off in his time? [closed]
Was it becaue he just didn't breakout as a writer or was it because of the dominance of certain philosophical narratives that made his philosophy unacceptable ?
he did attack everything ever
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What is the difference between Modernity and Enlightenment?
I know several Enlightenment-era philosophers such as Smith and Locke were responsible for diminishing what Arendt calls "the realm of the political" and then they proceeded to reduce humans ...
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Why is “The Name of the Rose” by Umberto Eco often regarded as postmodern?
Why is “The Name of the Rose” by Umberto Eco often regarded as postmodern?
The only somewhat plausible explanation (yet I’m still quite sure that it is not correct) I’ve managed to come up with is ...
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Do followers of Lyotard consider modernism deconstructive?
Do followers of Lyotard consider modernism deconstructive? I ask only because I've read that
Furthermore, says Lyotard, a work can become modern only if it is
first postmodern, for postmodernism ...
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Should we accept non-predictive inductive arguments based on cultural judgments?
Some inductive arguments that are taken seriously are based on observations about society/culture that cannot be objectively confirmed and do not produce any predictions. Does that make them less ...
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What is the difference between Adorno's 'fragmentation' and post-modern art's fragmentation?
the most authentic art is modernist art which reflects in its own
fragmentation the fragmentation of society.
What is the difference between Adorno's 'fragmentation' and post-modern art's ...
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What was post modernism before Lyotard?
What was post modernism before Lyotard?
I'm leaning heavily toward the idea that modernism, in the literary arts, was kaput by world war 2. I believe that's Miller's thesis here (about to read):
I ...
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Who has linked the analysis of modernism or post modernism to Lacan's four discourses?
Who has linked the analysis of modernism or post modernism to Lacan's four discourses?
I mean obviously there's some kinda link between the master's discourse and at least some forms of modernism. I'...
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What do post modernists make of modern art and modernity?
What do post modernists make of modernism and modernity: how it has failed and succeeded?
I can only take the term "post modern" at face value, as meaning after modern.
The modern itself I can't ...
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Modernists versus postmodernists?
Do modernists and postmodernist tend to hold the same views, or are these two disciplines simply unrelated?
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