I hvaen't had the full pleasure of addressing this in the time I wanted to, since I had class and other things, but last quarter, my professor seemed like an ardent follower of postmodernism, nevermind he was a Historical Materialist. In any event, I was lightly versed on postmodernism but never gave it a push, but recently I tried to take a nose dive into what all this hokum is about. I found the subject rather mysterious and not just for me either. Consider this following quote by one of the founders of the movement Jean-Francois Lyotard in his book The Postmodern Condition:
Now, I spent a great deal of time trying to make sense of that quote, but couldn't bring myself down to. I will list down the gist of what postmodern thought is about. Basically it states that there are no absolute truths, that truths are nothing more than imposed by authority masked over social structures, everything is relative to history and culture, we can't know anything for certain, etc. Throughout the description I found it to be very similar to the Marxian dialectic, ironically from my professor who was versed on both. In fact, nothing in postmodernism suggests it is new. It is simply regurgitated material from other historical epochs, such as the Greeks, or Marx, or Nietzsche.
The postmodern would be that which, in the modern, puts forward the unpresentable in presentation itself; that which denies itself the solace of good forms, the consensus of a taste which would make it possible to share collectively the nostalgia for the unattainable; that which searches for new presentations, not in order to enjoy them but in order to impart a stronger sense of the unpresentable.
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