Thanks to postmodernism, we tend to see all facts as meaningless trivia, no one more vital than any other. Yet this disregard… — Alexandra Petri Copy Share Image
“Worship, then, needs to be characterized by hospitality; it needs to be inviting. But at the same time, it should be inviting… — James K.A. Smith Copy Share Image
“In postmodern discourse, truth is rejected explicitly and consistency can be a rare phenomenon. Consider the following pairs of claims. On the… — Stephen R.C. Hicks Copy Share Image
“In the transformed world political context of today, it is more essential than ever that the critique of democracy in the name… — Şeyla Benhabib Copy Share Image
To the extent that I've ever understood postmodernism - and I'm sure there are people out there who do, but I'm not… — Steve Erickson Copy Share Image
“On the one hand, all truth is relative; on the other hand, postmodernism tells it like it really is. On the one… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The assertion that only sex is power and the arrogation of creativity to the masculine sex and the rendering of all creativity… — Somer Brodribb Copy Share Image
“The bricoleur , says Levi-Strauss, is someone who uses 'the means at hand,' that is, the instruments he finds at his disposition… — Jacques Derrida Copy Share Image
“For someone who is far from God, silence is a difficult confrontation with his own self and with the rather dismal realities… — Robert Sarah Copy Share Image
“…is postmodernity the pastime of an old man who scrounges in the garbage-heap of finality looking for leftovers, who brandishes unconsciousnesses, lapses,… — Jean-François Lyotard Copy Share Image
“For the normative self-understanding of modernity, Christianity has functioned as more than just a precursor or catalyst. Universalistic egalitarianism, from which sprang… — Jürgen Habermas Copy Share Image
“That is my second hypothesis: Postmodernism is a response to the crisis of faith of the academic far Left. Its epistemology justifies… — Stephen R.C. Hicks Copy Share Image
“Now, in the academy, you cannot just say anything about male theory. You have to proceed with an immanent critique, that is… — Somer Brodribb Copy Share Image
“So that to give a commentary on the text, such as we are attempting here, is to reinforce the illusion that a… — James N. Powell Copy Share Image
“Deconstruction seeks neither to reframe art with some perfect, apt and truthful new frame, nor simply to maintain the illusion of some… — James N. Powell Copy Share Image
Photography can still be used to champion activism and change. I believe this, even while standing in the cool winds of postmodernism...… — Carrie Mae Weems Copy Share Image
“This book first arose out of a passage in [Jorge Luis] Borges, out of the laughter that shattered, as I read the… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
“In the sense, that is, that the author who created us alive no longer wished, or was no longer able, materially to… — Luigi Pirandello Copy Share Image
To be different is a negative motive, and no creative thought or created thing grows out of a negative impulse. A negative… — Eva Zeisel Copy Share Image
“Andrei Yanuaryevich (one longs to blurt out, “Jaguaryevich”) Vyshinsky, availing himself of the most flexible dialectics (of a sort nowadays not permitted… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
“Postmodernism has turned into this devil's vortex where no matter what you do, your neck will be turned and your face shoved… — Brian Celio Copy Share Image
I think being from Iran sharpened my eye as an art dealer. This is why, today, I think the true definition of… — Tony Shafrazi Copy Share Image
“The modern writer (scriptor) is born simultaneously with his text; he is in no way supplied with a being which precedes or… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
“We have seen in this book numerous ambiguous texts that can be interpreted in two different ways: as an assertion that is… — Alan Sokal Copy Share Image
“To him, they looked like shadows that his wife had left behind. Size 7 shadows of his wife hung there in long… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“There’s a rumor it seems involving the finance minister. He’s supposed to resign any time now,” she said. “Some kind of scandal… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
“Oedipa wondered whether, at the end of this (if it were supposed to end), she too might not be left with only… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
The postmodern reply to the modern consists of recognizing that the past, since it cannot really be destroyed, because its destruction leads… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
“Postmodernism’s collapse into indeterminacy is a significant weakness, yet its recognition of the implications of narratives, communities, embodiment, history, race, sex, and… — David K. Naugle Copy Share Image
“Diversion consoles us - in trivial ways - in the face of our miseries or perplexities; yet, paradoxically, it becomes the worst… — Douglas Groothuis Copy Share Image
“Postmodernism involves the loss of any hope that some larger-than-human force—be it God or History or Progress or Science or Reason—is going… — Heath White Copy Share Image
Without a thorough and deeply rooted understanding of the biblical view of truth as revealed, objective, absolute, universal, eternally engaging, antithetical and… — Douglas Groothuis Copy Share Image
“[I]n so far as postmodern politics involves a '[t]heoretical retreat from the problem of domination within capitalism,' it is here, in this… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
The study of history is a powerful antidote to contemporary arrogance. It is humbling to discover how many of our glib assumptions,… — Paul Johnson Copy Share Image
“Fukuyama’s thesis that history has climaxed with liberal capitalism may have been widely derided, but it is accepted, even assumed, at the… — Mark Fisher Copy Share Image
Altermodern is an in-progress redefinition of modernity in the era of globalisation, stressing the experience of wandering in time, space and mediums.… — Nicolas Bourriaud Copy Share Image
“Let us, thusly, embrace the assumption that to each advocate of a respective paradigm within his respective bubble, the phenomenological gaps between… — Ashim Shanker Copy Share Image
“The place where french-postmodernism has been really harmful is the Third World. Because Third World intellectuals are badly needed in popular movements,… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“We are living in a time when sensitivities are at the surface, often vented with cutting words. Philosophically, you can believe anything… — Ravi Zacharias Copy Share Image
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