defining postmodernism

Defining Pre-modernism, Modernism, and Postmodernism [Explaining Postmodernism]

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Chart 1.3: Defining Pre-modernism, Modernism, and Post-modernism     Pre-modernism Modernism Post-modernism Metaphysics Realism: Super-naturalism Realism: Naturalism Anti-realism Epistemology Mysticism and/or faith Objectivism: Experience and reason Social subjectivism Human Nature Original Sin; Subject to God’s will Tabula rasa and autonomy Social construction and conflict Ethics Collectivism: altruism Individualism Collectivism: egalitarianism Politics & Economics Feudalism Liberal […]

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Pillars of Modernist and Post-Modernist Philosophy — lecture excerpt

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The following 15-minute video excerpts my five-point philosophical contrast between modernism and postmodernism, with illustrating quotations from leading pomo intellectuals Michel Foucault, Richard Rorty, Jacques Derrida, Jean-Francois Lyotard, and others. For more, here is the full 2018 lecture at the University of British Columbia.

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Audiobook version of Explaining Postmodernism

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I’m happy to announce the audiobook version of my Explaining Postmodernism: Skepticism and Socialism from Rousseau to Foucault. We’re releasing one chapter a week here and at YouTube. Thanks to Christopher Vaughan for his editing and production work. To begin, here is the first chapter. Chapter One: What Postmodernism Is [mp3] [YouTube] [38 minutes] The

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