Beginning in the mid-20th century, Western intellectuals began dismantling the concept of objective truth. Postmodern ...

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Postmodernism emerged in the mid-20th century as a reaction against the perceived limitations and failures of Modernism.

As pundits and scholars come to terms with the new “post-truth” era, the fingers point to a familiar intellectual culprit: postmodernism. Columnist Paul Waldman, writing in The American Prospect, ...

New York — In her presidential address to the American Historical Association here Saturday night, Gabrielle M. Spiegel, a professor of history at the Johns Hopkins University, provided a valedictory ...

Postmodernism is not anti-modernism, since plurality was already propagated by modernism (cf. Max Weber: the “polytheism of values” as a characteristic of modernity), but it is concretely opposed to ...

“I fear for the future of the humanities,” said scholar Helen Pluckrose. As should any reasonable individual. What is postmodern theory? And how did it result in this ideological corruption of the ...

Science may be a tried and tested way of knowing what we know, but it’s under threat. In Australia, leading science agency ...

Science journalist Chris Mooney disagrees. He argues that “climate change deniers do not look, behave, or sound postmodern in any meaningful sense of the term.” Your support powers solutions-focused ...

What is postmodern poetry? That’s the question Paul Hoover poses for his introduction to the Norton Anthology’s second edition of “Postmodern American Poetry.” Hoover, the anthology’s editor, sees the ...