Quote by David Bentley Hart

Simplifying to the extreme, I define postmodern as incredulity toward metanarratives.

— Jean-Francois Lyotard

“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

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

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

“the postmodern critique is not aimed at metanarratives because they are really grounded in narratives; on the contrary, the problem with metanarratives is that…

— James K.A. Smith

“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

Postmodernism - and is that term used much any more? - is simply a reiteration of the sophistic or the rhetorical worldview.

— David Roochnik

Postmodernity is said to be a culture of fragmentary sensations, eclectic nostalgia, disposable simulacra, and promiscuous superficiality, in which the traditionally valued qualities of…

— Jean Baudrillard

Postmodernism is a freewheeling, unfettered, and unapologetic pursuit of style.

— Ada Louise Huxtable

“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

“…is postmodernity the pastime of an old man who scrounges in the garbage-heap of finality looking for leftovers, who brandishes unconsciousnesses, lapses, limits, confines,…

— Jean-François Lyotard

“Postmodernism is not a theory or a creed: it is more like an attitude or a way of looking at things. It didn’t drop…

— Heath White

“Accordingly, postmodernism recasts the nature of rhetoric: Rhetoric is persuasion in the absence of cognition.”

— Stephen R.C. Hicks