Questions tagged [postmodernism]
The postmodernism tag has no usage guidance.
31
questions with no upvoted or accepted answers
5
votes
0
answers
98
views
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'...
user6917
3
votes
0
answers
121
views
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/...
- 1,827
2
votes
0
answers
73
views
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 ...
user35983
2
votes
0
answers
268
views
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 ...
2
votes
0
answers
844
views
What does Baudrillard mean by "The end of the Social"?
In Simulacra and Simulation (as well, I am told, as in many other works), Baudrillard speaks with the typical obscurity of a French-English translation of the end of society and the "End of the ...
- 165
2
votes
0
answers
51
views
How does post-humanism deal with Kants Copernican turn?
Presumably as a term it decentres the human subject as inherited from Renaissance humanism; this continuing the Copernican revolution of decentring the human habitus. This suggests it bypasses Kants ...
1
vote
0
answers
46
views
Does Critical Theories (CRT, Queer Studies etc.) come from the Frankfurt school or post-modernism?
I know post colonial studies which is a critical theory began with Orientalism which uses Foucault's concept of discourse. But also Frankfurt School is widely credited with finding critical theory ...
- 369
1
vote
0
answers
149
views
What does postmodernism say about Human Nature?
Chomsky who is anti-postmodernism believes humans have a nature which makes them inherently creative which can be achieved in a free society. This is in opposition to Foucault who talks bout the ...
- 369
1
vote
0
answers
43
views
Is it possible to reconcile the Enlightenment with post-modernism especially the work of Derrida?
I am referring to Derrida's response to Sokal where he claims his work does not criticize the Enlightenment.
However, given the enlightenment promoted the attitude that there existed truths, which ...
- 369
1
vote
0
answers
155
views
Unconventional/underground philosophy
Are there any modern concepts of unconventional philosophy?
I endeavour to keep up with all modern books and scholars, yet I have no idea about "underground philosophy"?
Do you know ...
1
vote
0
answers
70
views
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 ...
- 119
1
vote
0
answers
126
views
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 ...
user38026
1
vote
0
answers
81
views
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 ...
- 415
1
vote
0
answers
62
views
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 ...
user8572
1
vote
0
answers
390
views
Has, as Richard Rorty hoped, solidarity successfully replaced objective truth as the aim of cognition?
It seems relatively clear that Richard Rorty's postmodern project of eliminating "objective Truth" as something that inquiry and cognition can (reasonably?) hope to attain, or aim for, has to a large ...
- 1,827
1
vote
0
answers
66
views
How, if at all, has the concept of rhetoric mutated during post-modernity?
How, if at all, has the concept of rhetoric mutated during post-modernity?
I gather than it ('rhetoric') began its life, in classical Greece, as a form of public discourse inclusive of 'poetry', '...
user25714
1
vote
0
answers
268
views
Is post-modernity liminal?
Liminality (from the Latin Limen, meaning threshold) is a technical term deployed in Anthropology describing the ambiguity and disorientation which occurs in rites of passage from an 'earlier' life to ...
1
vote
0
answers
109
views
What are the implications of Baudrillard's ideas to epistemology?
I would simply like to know what you guys think... what points does his social theory, including his concept of hyperreality, intersect with theory of knowledge?
- 11
1
vote
0
answers
278
views
How can Schelling’s philosophy as a whole be characterized?
F. W. J. Schelling’s thought is undergoing an exciting renaissance and reawakening today, which has caused a reconsideration of German Idealism and his influence on the thought of Marx, Freud, Bergson,...
- 1,797
0
votes
0
answers
23
views
Non propositional grand narratives and postmodernism?
So I understand the post modernism pushed back against grand narratives. Can postmodernism attack grand narratives which do not structure themselves with propositions? Or is it just more difficult?
- 1,196
0
votes
0
answers
31
views
Are French postmodernism, American Critical Theory and their heirs related to idealism?
Are French postmodernism (Foucault, Derrida, Deleuze, etc.), and American Critical Theory (Adorno, Marcuse, etc.), and their heirs such as gender and postcolonial studies (Butler, Saïd) related to ...
- 834
0
votes
0
answers
16
views
Are French postmodernism, American Critical Theory and their heirs collectivist theories?
Is it correct to affirm that French postmodernism (Foucault, Derrida, Deleuze, etc.), and American Critical Theory (Adorno, Marcuse, etc.), and their heirs such as gender and postcolonial studies (...
- 834
0
votes
0
answers
35
views
What is the debate between Zizek (Hegelians) and Judith Butler (Postmodernists)?
He accuses them of promoting spurious infinities with his example of the + in LGBTQ+ and takes issue with contradiction being ontological.
I wish to understand this more.
- 369
0
votes
0
answers
27
views
How did the french postmodernists and Rorty arrive to the same conclusion using different methodology?
Rorty founded pragmatism -> which is basically that words only get their meanign based on how they're used
French postmodernists on the other hand did different things all attacking Grand ...
- 369
0
votes
0
answers
188
views
Was Existentialism completely refuted by Structuralism ? Are there existentialist answers to Structuralism?
I know that people like Deleuze who came after the structuralists continue to read Nietzsche who was an existentialist. Does structuralism refute existentialism? How is it brought back by Post-...
- 369
0
votes
0
answers
47
views
How has Foucault and post modernism in general become the dominant lense of analysis in Western Academia and how do Hegelians and others oppose that?
I have read of the strong impact of Foucault (the most cited author ?) and post-modernist lenses in particular in Academia. From Edward Said's Orientalism to Spivak's work (which even doe was a ...
- 11
0
votes
0
answers
37
views
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.
- 1
0
votes
1
answer
120
views
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 ...
- 199
0
votes
0
answers
326
views
What does metamodernism say about Eric Gans' ideas on "victimary thinking"?
Do Vermeulen and van den Akker's ideas on so called "metamodernism" have anything to say on Eric Gans' ideas of "victimary thinking"?
From wikipedia
The prefix 'meta' here refers not to some ...
user6917
0
votes
1
answer
97
views
Dialectics and postmodernism as competing attacks on liberalism
I recently posted an inquiry over the attitude of Hegelian and Marxist dialectics toward Enlightenment liberalism.
A comment mentioned postmodernism as an example of a tradition more plainly ...
- 131
0
votes
1
answer
320
views
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 ...
- 369