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Although some postmodernists reject the relativist label, many postmodern doctrines constitute or imply some form of relativism. Many postmodernists deny that there are aspects of reality that are objective or that there are statements about reality that are objectively true or false (implying metaphysical relativism), that it is possible to have knowledge of such statements (implying ...
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Postmodernism, in contemporary Western philosophy, a late...
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Postmodernism is an intellectual stance or mode of discourse [1] [2] which challenges worldviews associated with Enlightenment rationality dating back to the 17th century. [4] Postmodernism is associated with relativism and a focus on the role of ideology in the maintenance of economic and political power. [4]
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Sep 30, 2005 · Postmodernism. That postmodernism is indefinable is a truism. However, it can be described as a set of critical, strategic and rhetorical practices employing concepts such as difference, repetition, the trace, the simulacrum, and hyperreality to destabilize other concepts such as presence, identity, historical progress, epistemic certainty, and ...
Sep 11, 2015 · Relativism, roughly put, is the view that truth and falsity, right and wrong, standards of reasoning, and procedures of justification are products of differing conventions and frameworks of assessment and that their authority is confined to the context giving rise to them. More precisely, “relativism” covers views which maintain that—at a ...
postmodernism subverts the modernity-defined relationship between man and the world. It may be a mistake to define postmodernism in the first place. Just as Marx rejected the “Marxism” title, none of the representative postmodernists such as Baudrillard, Foucault, and Derrida was a self-confessed postmodernist. So the word
