Questions tagged [postmodernism]
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Why is Nietzsche associated with postmodernism?
This is not the first commentary in which I have seen Nietzsche associated with postmodernism. I see daylight between him and the core ideas of postmodernism, as represented by the likes of Derrida, ...
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What are the relationships between Foucault's medical gaze, scientific investigation, and Buddhist detachment?
From this note from a clinical psychologist, the Foucault's gaze is described as:
... with this powerful gaze the physician could penetrate illusion and see through to the underlying reality, that ...
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Is there no basis for differentiating a personal from a historical narrative?
Is there no basis for differentiating a personal from a historical narrative? My narrative is a mess, so I'd like to get to grips with the question, ideally as it links to literature. Who in ...
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Would Carl Jung be considered a postmodernist?
All of Jung's colleagues were modernists, primarily because postmodernism wasn't around yet; they were all Freudian, and, as such, followed the Oedipal grand narrative. Jung, however, had a completely ...
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Looking for a book to compliment Zammito and Mohanty in understanding the ethos of post positivistic realism
There are two books which I consider to be indispensable to an understanding of
contemporary western culture’s post-truth/alternative facts (scientific and cultural post modernism/structuralism/...
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What does Latour mean by (-/non/post/)modernism?
There is a summary on wikipedia of We Have Never Been Modern which says
Latour viewed modernism as an era that believed it had annulled the entire past in its wake.[29] He presented the antimodern ...
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Was Jan Smuts the father of Holism?
With reference:
Jan C. Smuts, Holism and Evolution
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Smuts
With what I've found so far it seems he has had an enormous impact on the world that we have, so:
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What does a postmodernist mean by us having "no ‘essence’" and being ‘in process’? [closed]
Understand Postmodernism: A Teach Yourself Guide. Glenn Ward BA in fine art (painting), University of Plymouth, 1990; MA in Visual Culture, Bath Spa University, 1992; PhD in film studies, University ...
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In comparing Existentialism with Postmodernism, what do 'process', 'essence', 'authenticity' mean?
Understand Postmodernism: A Teach Yourself Guide. Glenn Ward BA in fine art (painting), University of Plymouth, 1990; MA in Visual Culture, Bath Spa University, 1992; PhD in film studies, University ...
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Why did Baudrillard regard 'terrorism as fashion and the media'?
Understand Postmodernism: A Teach Yourself Guide. Glenn Ward BA in fine art (painting), University of Plymouth, 1990; MA in Visual Culture, Bath Spa University, 1992; PhD in film studies, University ...
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In Postmodernism, why is irony "the only option"?
Understand Postmodernism: A Teach Yourself Guide. Glenn Ward BA in fine art (painting), University of Plymouth, 1990; MA in Visual Culture, Bath Spa University, 1992; PhD in film studies, University ...
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Ought someone reading philosophy for fun skip obscurantist primary sources? [closed]
I can understand why tenured philosophy professors specializing in some obscurantist must read primary sources. For those who aren't, is it practical and wise to forgo primary sources written by ...
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Are obscurantists unethically self-indulgent, uncharitable in not writing more readably? [closed]
Is it rational or levelheaded to regard obscurantists as brash, unprincipled, and self-centered? That's how I feel when I try to read their writing.
I refer only to those obscurantists who can, but ...
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How do structuralism and post-structuralism change the way I read a novel?
I am not from a literature background and have very limited ideas about structuralism and post-structuralism.
From a naive point of view, these ideas say that we can interpret the text as we want ...
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From a postmodernist perspective, can societies even change, or exist at all?
While I understand that postmodernism has no set definition, it is my understanding that a generally foundational belief or view of postmodernists is the assertion that one's beliefs, views, truths, ...
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