Tag: Post-modernity
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Post-Modernity and Postmodernism
‘Post-modernity’ refers to the view that the institutions and ways of living characteristic of modernity have been replaced by new institutional features to such a profound extent that it is no longer plausible to look at the 21st century as a continuation of modernity. Postmodernism is a term that refers to new ways of thinking…
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Three Examples of Post-Modern Thinkers
Post modernists argue that we need new ways of thought to understand and conceptualise this new ‘post-modern society’ – the age old theories of modernity are no longer relevant! Lyotard – the abandonment of the Enlightenment Project Lyotard refers to post-modernism as‘incredulity towards metanarratives’. A metanarrative is a theory that holds that it is the…
