Thus the negative perception is the triumph of consciousness. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
“May one plead, Your Honor, postmodernism as an involuntary condition?” — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
Can postmodernism hold the perpetrators of genocide accountable? — Catharine MacKinnon Copy Share Image
“Like pornography, postmodernism is hard to define but easy to spot.” — Jack Cashill Copy Share Image
“Men who create art feel a zillion times happier than men who create wealth. Art lives on but wealth diminishes.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
Postmodernism is among other things a sick joke at the expense of revolutionary avant-gardism. — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
“She spun the car through a right turn that would have killed us all had we been minor characters.” — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
I confess I take perverse delight as a theologian in the controversies surrounding postmodernism. — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share Image
“Accordingly, postmodernism recasts the nature of rhetoric: Rhetoric is persuasion in the absence of cognition.” — Stephen R.C. Hicks Copy Share Image
The Postmodernists' tyranny wears people down by boredom and semi-literate prose. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Some ways of naming a generation are fruitful and some are not. Postmodernism is not. It doesn't really say anything. — Robert Coover Copy Share Image
“Charles Jencks is the most notable landscape and garden designer to carry forward the 3500 BCE-1800CE landscape and garden design agenda.” — Tom Turner Copy Share Image
Postmodernism was a reaction to modernism. Where modernism was about objectivity, postmodernism was about subjectivity. Where modernism sought a singular truth, postmodernism… — Miguel Syjuco Copy Share Image
“After one postmodern doorstopper, you’ve read them all. Pynchon got there first, really… and it was good… but most of the others… — A.D. Aliwat Copy Share Image
“Reason is a tool of weaklings who are afraid to be naked in the face of a cruel and conflictual reality and… — Stephen R.C. Hicks Copy Share Image
There's this expression called postmodernism, which is kind of silly, and destroys a perfectly good word called modern, which now no longer… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
“Therefore, it is a combination of the two factors—widespread skepticism about reason and socialism’s being in crisis—that is necessary to give rise… — Stephen R.C. Hicks Copy Share Image
“In postmodernism we find metaphysical antirealism, epistemological subjectivity, the placing of feeling at the root of all value issues, the consequent relativism… — Stephen R.C. Hicks Copy Share Image
Postmodernism shifts the basis of the work of art from the object to the transaction between the spectator and the object and… — Arnold Aronson Copy Share Image
Postmodernism does not help us understand good art. It encourages art that can be easily understood and throws in something catchy to… — Walter Darby Bannard Copy Share Image
“The question of the relation between modernity and postmodernity revolves around the issue of 'legitimation.' Modernity, then, appeals to science to legitimate… — James K.A. Smith Copy Share Image
“...people are no longer interested in analysis. They all prefer catharsis now. They all prefer to say that they are helpless and… — Sarah Schulman Copy Share Image
“I had not particularly liked the way in which he wrote about literature in Beginnings , and I was always on my… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Insofar as I think about postmodernism at all, and it doesn't exactly keep me awake at nights, I think of it as… — Jonathan Raban Copy Share Image
“The radical hermeneutic of suspicion that characterizes all of post-modernity is essentially nihilistic, denying the very possibility of creative or healing love.… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
The button-down empirical and deductive fields, including all the hard sciences, have lived side by side with 'critical theory,' postmodernism and its… — Bret Weinstein Copy Share Image
“Or, to put it another way, presuppositional apologetics--such as that developed by Francis Schaeffer, but also by Cornelius Van Til and, to… — James K.A. Smith Copy Share Image
“In the pragmatist, streetwise climate of advanced postmodern capitalism, with its scepticism of big pictures and grand narratives, its hard-nosed disenchantment with… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
what exactly is postmodernism, except modernism without the anxiety? — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
Postmodernism does not facilitate better art. It rationalizes inferior art by wrapping it in words - a suit of armor with nobody… — Walter Darby Bannard Copy Share Image
...one of those very bad men that not even postmodernism can explain away. — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
Postmodernism lives in the academy, where words abandon reality to serve ambition, and reputations rise on hot air. — Walter Darby Bannard Copy Share Image
As far as belief goes, postmodernism prefers to travel light: it has beliefs, to be sure, but it does not have faith — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
