Postmodernism Page 2

Criticism: Criticisms of postmodernism, while intellectually diverse, share the opinion that it lacks coherence and is hostile to the notion of absolutes, such as truth. Postmodern philosophy is also a frequent subject of criticism for obscurantism and resistance to reliable knowledge. …,

Start date: History. The basic features of what is now called postmodernism can be found as early as the 1940s, most notably in the work of artists such as Jorge Luis Borges. However, most scholars today agree postmodernism began to compete with modernism in the late 1950s and gained ascendancy over it in the 1960s.,

Postmodern novels: Infinite Jest, If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler, Gravity’s Rainbow, Slaughterhouse-Five, or The Children’s Crusade: A Duty-Dance with Death, The Crying of Lot 49, Catch-22, House of Leaves, Naked Lunch, White Noise, Pale Fire, Labyrinths, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, The Recognitions, Fictions, The Name of the Rose, The Crying of Lot 49, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, V.,

Principles: Many postmodernists hold one or more of the following views: ( 1) there is no objective reality; (2) there is no scientific or historical truth (objective truth); (3) science and technology (and even reason and logic) are not vehicles of human progress but suspect instruments of established power; (4) reason and logic …, Postmodernism is “post” because it is denies the existence of any ultimate principles, and it lacks the optimism of there being a scientific, philosophical, or religious truth which will explain everything for everybody – a characterisitic of the so-called “modern” mind.

Time: Stretching from the late 19th century to the middle of the 20th century, Modernism reached its peak in the 1960s; Post-modernism describes the period that followed during the 1960s and 1970s.