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A Joke Made by Modernists to Postmodernists: True/False Story? [closed]
While ago I heard this story that two modernists wrote an article for a postmodernist journal. The article was completely based on nonsense! However the article has been accepted and published in ...
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Is there a modernist philosophy?
Let's assume, that it is possible to label some philosophical currents as "postmodernist" and that they have some principles in common. What is modernism then?
I'm asking this because Cody Gray's ...
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Narrative, what is it?
Most dictionaries define a narrative as telling about consecutive events. However i frequently see in philosophical works and discussions, especially postmodernist ones, the use of this word in such ...
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What is a hybrid in Bruno Latour's theory?
I'm reading Latour's book We have never been modern, but I can't imagine a single example of a hybrid thing. Can you name one?
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What is a good introduction to structuralism and related fields?
I'm having a hard time to find good learning material for the structuralist school of thought. I try to understand what it is "all" about and how it relates to other schools of thought and scientific ...
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What does it mean for something to be “post-modernist” as opposed to “modernist”?
While I've always had a general idea about what it means for a book or a theorist to be "post-modern" or "modern", I'd be really interested to hear a succinct comparison of the two "-isms." I know its ...
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What is postmodernism? [closed]
Postmodernism has always seemed to have a very fuzzy definition to me. It tends to be defined in terms of what it's not, or what it criticizes; for example, it "aims to show that every 'text' is ...
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What is the practical usefulness of post-modernist sociology à la Foucault, e.g. of the insight that “insanity is merely a label applied by society”?
Foucault says what constitutes insanity is a label determined by society. Whether someone is sane or insane is not a clear, objective fact. I do not disagree. He says this labelling can be dangerous.
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Is Kurt Gödel's Incompleteness Theorem a “cheap trick”?
I found a throw-away critique of Kurt Gödel's Incompleteness Theorem in an essay about Deconstruction:
The basic enterprise of contemporary literary criticism is actually quite simple. It is based ...
