Questions tagged [postmodernism]
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Does structuralism have preference for thinking through structures?
Structuralism states we are governed by narrow cultural structures.
I believe post-modernism and post-structuralism acknowledge the existence of this structures as well.
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Is there a novel that incorporates all of the theories included in Jacques Derrida's 'Seven Missiles, Seven Missives'?
Jacques Derrida came up with some theories about postmodern apocalypses in his Seven Missiles, Seven Missives. I'm looking for a novel that incorporates most of that, if not all.
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Does postmodernism hold that science is one social narrative among many, no better or worse than any other way of knowing?
I'm reading postmodern theory, and it seems to be all allusion and beating around the bush. I'm having a hard time getting at what the foundational ideas are. One thing I have heard is that ...
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How to make sense of philosophical text that might seem like "nonsense" but isn't?
I am reading the work of Jean Baudrillard. Some of his ideas "feels" right: they make sense to me in a weird way, but I can't get deeper because I can't understand most of what I read. Take ...
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Why is postmodernism apparently so ill-perceived in philosophy of science?
In the introduction to Massimo Pigliucci's book Philosophy of Pseudoscience: Reconsidering the Demarcation Problem, a collection of essays about the topic, I found the following bit:
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Do postmodernism says that now science, politics, arts can't criticized each other? Or is it an observation that they can't anymore?
According to Francois Lyotard in The Postmodern Condition (1979), with metanarratives like the Enlightenment or Marxism, the belief that scientific, political or artistical progress were measured ...
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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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Post-Positivism's Relationship to Post-Modernism
In A Nice Derangement of Epistemes by John H. Zammito, he attempts to "deflate" certain "extravagant gestures in philosophy of language" as he believes they "threaten to undermine indispensable canons ...
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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
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What does 'require' mean in this statement of Danto's view on (institutional) art?
According to the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy:
The groundwork for institutional definitions was laid by Arthur Danto, better known to non-philosophers as the long-time influential art critic ...
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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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Is Baudrillard able to communicate an inability to meaningfully communicate?
Someone suggested to me (not an academic) Baudrillard is saying:
the means of communication and meaning become increasing self
centred, i.e. communication about communication, simulation, hyper
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Are there any good sources that would help me read Lacan's Seminar XVII?
I've been interested in psychoanalysis for the past year or so; I've read a little bit of Freud (the introductory lectures, the case study on the Rat Man, Beyond the Pleasure Principle, and about half ...
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Self refuting pillar of postmodernism
One of the defining tenets of posmodernism is "incredulity towards meta narratives". However, with its ubiquitous emphasis on the oppression of power structures and the consequent victim mentality ...
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