Website review: Postmodernism and Its Critics
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•40 reviews since Mar 15, 2005
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- commerican rated 3 weeks ago
- PoMo has its uses, but I think it's time to move on.
UhHuhHer rated 3 weeks ago- I was once dumped for not being "postmodern" enough. It's a pretty decent overview of the subject although not the last word on the matter.
- yarvin rated 2 months ago
- I'm honestly not sure what to make of this. It's rather disorganized, it swings between mild sympathy and mild hostility, and overall I don't know that it really covers the subject well enough. However, I think it has some important good points. For instance, it highlights the fact that there are both extremist and moderate postmodernists. On the other hand, there are actually a LOT of different types of postmodernists, because there isn't really a single postmodernism. There are, in my opinion, two broad trends in postmodernist lines of thought. The first group are the neoconservatives, who reject the Enlightenment values of liberal humanism out of a romanticism for the past. They reject science and art as sources of truth and tend to see scientific instiutions - and thus science - as hopelessly biased against them. In other words, they think Enlightenment values are too liberal. The ideas of the Religious Right and Intelligent Design can be counted among this group in many ways. The second and more noticed group are the radicals, who push the ideas and values of liberal humanism to the point of breaking with them. Like the neoconservatives, they reject the notion that science can bring us the truth. But where neoconservatives want to replace scientific institutions with their own as the authority on truth, the radicals would rather do away with such authority altogether, because they worry it would silence minority voices. In other words, they think that Enlightenment values aren't liberal enough. Of course, a postmodernist might be a neoconservative in one area and radical in another... or not postmodernist at all in some.
- Bailums rated 3 months ago
- although it is just a basic overview, this site is super helpful and well-organized for any beginner at the whole, crazy, post modern thing. i dig it...
- JimmyConstantine rated 5 months ago
- "The postmodernist critique of science consists of two interrelated arguments, epistemological and ideological. Both are based on subjectivity. First, because of the subjectivity of the human object, anthropology, according to the epistemological argument cannot be a science; and in any event the subjectivity of the human subject precludes the possibility of science discovering objective truth. Second, since objectivity is an illusion, science according to the ideological argument, subverts oppressed groups, females, ethnics, third-world peoples (Spiro 1996)."
- RunWithTheWolves rated 5 months ago
- There's a party over in Postmodernity and you're invited. From the page: "in any event the subjectivity of the human subject precludes the possibility of science discovering objective truth. Second, since objectivity is an illusion, science according to the ideological argument, subverts oppressed groups, females, ethnics, third-world peoples (Spiro 1996)" Nihilists not welcome
- chummers rated 5 months ago
- From the page: "consider anthropological critic Melford Spiro's excellent synopsis of the basic tenets of postmodernism: â€oeThe postmodernist critique of science consists of two interrelated arguments, epistemological and ideological. Both are based on subjectivity. First, because of the subjectivity of the human object, anthropology, according to the epistemological argument cannot be a science; and in any event the subjectivity of the human subject precludes the possibility of science discovering objective truth. Second, since objectivity is an illusion, science according to the ideological argument, subverts oppressed groups, females, ethnics, third-world peoples (Spiro 1996)." Rosenau (1993)identifies seven contradictions in Postmodernism: 1. Its anti-theoretical position is essentially a theoretical stand. 2. While Postmodernism stresses the irrational, instruments of reason are freely employed to advance its perspective. 3. The Postmodern prescription to focus on the marginal is itself an evaluative emphasis of precisely the sort that it otherwise attacks. 4. Postmodernism stress intertextuality but often treats text in isolation. 5. By adamently rejecting modern criteria for assessing theory, Postmodernists cannot argue that there are no valid criteria for judgement. 6. Postmodernism criticizes the inconsistency of modernism, but refuses to be held to norms of consistency itself. 7. Postmodernists contradict themselves by relinquishing truth claims in their own writings.
- velation rated 5 months ago
- Rosenau (1993)identifies seven contradictions in Postmodernism:
1. Its anti-theoretical position is essentially a theoretical stand.
2. While Postmodernism stresses the irrational, instruments of reason are freely employed to advance its perspective.
3. The Postmodern prescription to focus on the marginal is itself an evaluative emphasis of precisely the sort that it otherwise attacks.
4. Postmodernism stress intertextuality but often treats text in isolation.
5. By adamently rejecting modern criteria for assessing theory, Postmodernists cannot argue that there are no valid criteria for judgement.
6. Postmodernism criticizes the inconsistency of modernism, but refuses to be held to norms of consistency itself.
7. Postmodernists contradict themselves by relinquishing truth claims in their own writings.
Pwnt. - Rosenau (1993)identifies seven contradictions in Postmodernism:
- zagros rated 6 months ago
- From the page: "Postmodernism is highly debated even among postmodernists themselves. For an initial characterization of its basic premises, consider anthropological critic Melford Spiro's excellent synopsis of the basic tenets of postmodernism" A remarkable site. It provides all the basic infomation to understand postmodernism.
- Stumblupon rated 7 months ago
- postmodernism is a lie : the middle ages never ended
exercise will end with the middle ages - postmodernism is a lie : the middle ages never ended
