Conclusion: better to be a thinking monk than a postmodern thinker. — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
I understand that postmodern literature probably means people like DeLillo, The Fiction Collective, but I don't get it that those writers are… — Kathy Acker Copy Share Image
It is safest to grasp the concept of the postmodern as an attempt to think the present historically in an age that… — Fredric Jameson Copy Share Image
The biggest problem facing our world today is a lack of hope and a lack of meaning. [It's] basically just a postmodern… — Jon Foreman Copy Share Image
One of the stated goals of the postmodern movement in architecture was a greater sensitivity to the people who live in or… — Martin Filler Copy Share Image
The Chavez-Obama pictures will join a postmodern photo array that includes Donald Rumsfeld gifting Saddam Hussein with spurs from President Reagan. — Christine Pelosi Copy Share Image
The films I grew up loving, and the art that I love, is not generally the kind of postmodern ironic winking stuff.… — James Gray Copy Share Image
“However, as Bordo herself notes, the problem with the adoption of postmodern ideas in general is that they have led some writers… — Sheila Jeffreys Copy Share Image
“attitudes were increasingly rejected; and now, in the twenty-first century, much of the energy and creative thinking in our culture operates off… — Heath White Copy Share Image
Don't you give me that postmodern bullshit. There is truth, There is a truth. And what you want, or you feel, or… — Carol Plum-Ucci 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
Our culture is becoming more hostile to the gospel. This trend may be more established in Australia than in the USA, but… — Mark Dever Copy Share Image
Feudal Europe is over, but it found its way into film culture. It found its way into postmodern painting culture, and we're… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
There appear to be no integrating forces, no unified meaning, no true inner understanding of phenomena in our experience of the world.… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
Thomas Pynchon surely inaugurated or crystallized a new genre in 1963 when he published 'V.' The seriocomic mystery or thriller with one… — Paul Di Filippo Copy Share Image
The faith engaged with Platonism in the ancient world, with Aristotle in the medieval world, with nominalism in the Reformation era, and… — Robert E. Webber Copy Share Image
“Pop culture didn’t actually need an Andy Warhol to make it postmodern. Rock ’n’ roll was never anything but a faked-up blues—something… — Hugo Wilcken Copy Share Image
Packed with fascinating personal perspective and testimony, Michael Takiffs A Complicated Man wholly justifies its title. The book is far more than… — Nigel Hamilton Copy Share Image
In that sense, Obama is America's first postmodern president. If his predecessors tended to see the world in terms of good and… — Stephen F. Hayes Copy Share Image
It is possible to see slavery and serfdom merely as extreme early forms of autocratic management, in which employees had no voice… — Kenneth Cloke Copy Share Image
I consider Otto Rank to be one of the great spiritual giants of the twentieth century, a genius as a psychologist and… — Matthew Fox Copy Share Image
It is often said that in today's modern and postmodern world that the forces of darkness are upon us. But I think… — Ken Wilber Copy Share Image
“Pod kvazi-mitskim totalitetom tehničke racionalnosti prijeti nam inteligencija bez patosa, inteligencija kojoj nije potreban nikakav jezik koji ima svoj vlastiti smisao jer… — Johann Baptist Metz Copy Share Image
Whereas modern cynicism brought despair about the ability of the human species to realize laudable ideals, postmodern cynicism doesn't — not because… — Robert Wright Copy Share Image
“I think of the postmodern attitude as that of a man who loves a very cultivated woman and knows that he cannot… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
I grew up in the heat of '70s postmodern fiction and post-Godard films, and there was this idea that what mattered was… — Noah Baumbach Copy Share Image
The larger the price tag, the more you have to adopt what I call the postmodern management approach. What I mean by… — John Kao Copy Share Image
Sometimes...we don't want to feel like a postmodern, postfeminist, overstretched woman but, rather, a domestic goddess, trailing nutmeggy fumes of baking pie… — Nigella Lawson Copy Share Image
Just like those other black holes from outer space, Hollywood is postmodern to this extent: it has no center, only a spreading… — Arthur Kroker Copy Share Image
The condition of the United States in the post-postmodern, or post-post-irony period. It's what the country will become when there is nothing… — Davis Schneiderman Copy Share Image
I've purposely stayed away from reading much about postmodern theory, and most everything I have read just bored me to tears. I… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
The subject of feminism cannot be purely a fiction, as some postmodern writers suggest, produced by the discourses of power. — Alison Assiter Copy Share Image
“...a little of this, a little of that - a little of me, a little of you - put it together what… — John Geddes A Familiar Rain Copy Share Image
“when it comes to the postmodern applications and contemporary relevance of depth psychology, the Jungian perspective is where the action is.” — Christopher Hauke Copy Share Image
“Even I don’t know myself... In fact, I don’t know if I really have a self at all, as I’m constantly playing… — Simona Panova Copy Share Image
The postmodern worldview denies that there is such a thing as truth: historical, moral, or otherwise. It denies that truth exists independently… — Mark Earley Copy Share Image
I love the combination of smartness, pain, and what one might call conscious postmodern trashiness in this book: a version of the… — Alicia Ostriker Copy Share Image
I'm a postmodern commentator, and so, in a cheeky parallel to James Joyce or James Kelman, I get to places, verbally, that… — Sid Waddell Copy Share Image
I'm in a house where if the washing machine shuts off, it sings a song. If iPad gets a message, it sings… — Abel Ferrara Copy Share Image