Postmodernism Quotes

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Today [the voice of women] is being heard loud and clear. But I do not read the welcome triumph of feminism, social, economic, and creative,… — E. O. Wilson
Modernism is about space. Postmodernism is about communication. You should do what turns you on. — Robert Venturi
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… — Stanley Hauerwas
Tolerance is not a spiritual gift; it is the distinguishing mark of postmodernism; and sadly, it has permeated the very fiber of Christianity. Why is… — John Stott
What postmodernism gives us instead is a multicultural defense for male violence - a defense for it wherever it is, which in effect is a… — Catharine MacKinnon
Postmodernism is an academic theory, originating in academia with an academic elite, not in the world of women and men, where feminist theory is rooted. — Catharine MacKinnon
To be different is a negative motive, and no creative thought or created thing grows out of a negative impulse. A negative impulse is always… — Eva Zeisel
Postmodernism represents a moment of suspension before the batteries are recharged for the new millennium, an acknowledgment that preceding the future is a strange and… — Lyman Abbott
Postmodernism has not overcome the problems of modernism, but only compounded them with a dosis of cynicism, relativism and indifference. — John Walford
Thus the negative perception is the triumph of consciousness. — Alfred North Whitehead
The moment a man questions the meaning and value of life, he is sick, since objectively neither has any existence; by asking this question one… — Sigmund Freud
In the contexts of religion and politics, words are not regarded as standing, rather inadequately, for things and events; on the contrary things and events… — Aldous Huxley
Postmodernism is, almost by definition, a transitional cusp of social, cultural, economic and ideological history when modernism's high-minded principles and preoccupations have ceased to function,… — Gilbert Adair
Postmodernism is silly and joyless at the same time. — Walter Darby Bannard
Postmodernism is Modernism with Alzheimer's. — Walter Darby Bannard
Postmodernism lives in the academy, where words abandon reality to serve ambition, and reputations rise on hot air. — Walter Darby Bannard
Postmodernism does not help us understand good art. It encourages art that can be easily understood and throws in something catchy to cover the loss… — Walter Darby Bannard
Postmodernism does not facilitate better art. It rationalizes inferior art by wrapping it in words - a suit of armor with nobody inside. — Walter Darby Bannard
In 1979, postmodernism lost its understanding of the meaning of ornament. It degenerated into kitsch applique. — Charles Jencks
Postmodernism is among other things a sick joke at the expense of revolutionary avant-gardism. — Terry Eagleton

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