Government Quote by James Fallows

“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 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

“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 to come…

— Heath White

“…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

“Therefore, it is a combination of the two factors—widespread skepticism about reason and socialism’s being in crisis—that is necessary to give rise to postmodernism.”

— Stephen R.C. Hicks

Postmodernism is, almost by definition, a transitional cusp of social, cultural, economic and ideological history when modernism's high-minded principles and preoccupationshave ceased to function,…

— Gilbert Adair

“The overall impact of postmodernism is that many other groups now share with black folks a sense of deep alienation, despair, uncertainty, loss of…

— Bell Hooks

“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

Postmodernism entices us with the siren call of liberation and creativity, but it may be an invitation to intellectual and moral suicide.

— Gertrude Himmelfarb

“Postmoderns must have the opportunity to experience the story as a story without the gospel being continually reduced to mere message.”

— Sarah Arthur

“Postmodernism’s collapse into indeterminacy is a significant weakness, yet its recognition of the implications of narratives, communities, embodiment, history, race, sex, and class make…

— David K. Naugle

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

— Ada Louise Huxtable