Simplifying to the extreme, I define postmodern as…

“jSimplifying to the extreme, I define postmodern as incredulity toward metanarratives.”

— J.F.Lyotard The POstmodern Condition A Report on Knowledge

“Lyotard has described the postmodern condition succinctly as "incredulity towards metanarratives":' an attitude commendable in itself, no doubt, but also one that can easily…

— David Bentley Hart

“Lyotard. The assertion that postmodernity is “incredulity toward metanarratives” is ultimately a claim to be affirmed by the church, pushing us to recover (a)…

— James K.A. Smith

“...a little of this, a little of that - a little of me, a little of you - put it together what do you…

— John Geddes A Familiar Rain

A work can become modern only if it is first postmodern. Postmodernism thus understood is not modernism at its end but in the nascent…

— Anonymous

There are also two Christianities in the world today. There is (1) the Christianity of the New Testament, and there is (2) the Christianity…

— Peter Kreeft

“From the postmodern anti-realist metaphysics and anti-reason epistemology, the postmodern social consequences follow almost directly. Once we set aside reality and reason, what are…

— Stephen R.C. Hicks

“This, of course, is because today’s postfeminist era is also today’s postmodern era, in which supposedly everybody now knows everything about what’s really going…

— David Foster Wallace

It's impossible in our postmodern era for anyone to be original - for anybody to do what Jackson Pollock did.

— Irving Sandler

Postmodernism represents a moment of suspension before the batteries are recharged for the new millennium, an acknowledgment that preceding the future is a strange…

— Lyman Abbott

I am just postmodern enough not to trust 'postmodern' as a description of our times, for it privileges the practices and intellectual formations of…

— Stanley Hauerwas

Steve Coogan picks up enough to lecture an interviewer: This is a postmodern novel before there was any modernism to be post about. Later…

— Roger Ebert

The postmodern reply to the modern consists of recognizing that the past, since it cannot really be destroyed, because its destruction leads to silence,…

— Umberto Eco

“Postmodernism has turned into this devil's vortex where no matter what you do, your neck will be turned and your face shoved into a…

— Brian Celio

“Being postmodern, however, is about being complicit rather than virtuous, it is about approaching categories like Good and Evil with a certain ironic skepticism.”

— Veronica Hollinger