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Thanks to postmodernism, we tend to see all facts as meaningless trivia, no one more vital than any other. Yet this disregard for facts qua facts is intellectually crippling. Facts are the raw material of thought, and the knowledge of significant facts makes sophisticated thought possible.
Alexandra Petri
Knowledge
Thought
Thanks
Other
Crippling
Possible
Significant
See
Vital
Postmodernism
Trivia
More
Tend
Facts
No-One
Raw
Raw Material
Sophisticated
Makes
Material
Intellectually
Than
Any
Meaningless
Disregard
In Modernism, reality used to validate media. In Postmodernism, the media validate reality. If you don't believe this, just think how many times you've described some real event as being 'just like a movie.'
Brad Holland
You
Reality
Believe
Think
Validate
Some
Postmodernism
Like
How
Real
How Many Times
Times
Just
Being
Movie
Modernism
Used
Many
Media
Event
What postmodernism gives us instead is a multicultural defense for male violence - a defense for it wherever it is, which in effect is a pretty universal defense.
Catharine MacKinnon
Defense
Pretty
Postmodernism
Gives
Instead
Male
Effect
Wherever
Which
Us
Multicultural
Universal
Violence
Postmodernism was a reaction to modernism. Where modernism was about objectivity, postmodernism was about subjectivity. Where modernism sought a singular truth, postmodernism sought the multiplicity of truths.
Miguel Syjuco
Truth
Postmodernism
About
Objectivity
Reaction
Sought
Singular
Subjectivity
Truths
Where
Modernism
Multiplicity
Postmodernism cost literature its audience.
Scott Turow
Postmodernism
Cost
Audience
Literature
I confess I take perverse delight as a theologian in the controversies surrounding postmodernism.
Stanley Hauerwas
Postmodernism
Delight
Take
Surrounding
Confess
Controversies
Theologian
Perverse
From my perspective, 'postmodernism' merely names an interesting set of developments in the social order that is based on the presumption that God does not matter.
Stanley Hauerwas
God
Matter
Perspective
Presumption
Postmodernism
Merely
Developments
Names
Does
Order
Interesting
Social
Social Order
Based
Set
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