Development Quote by Stanley Hauerwas

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

— David Roochnik

As far as belief goes, postmodernism prefers to travel light: it has beliefs, to be sure, but it does not have faith

— Terry Eagleton

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

“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 is an academic theory, originating in academia with an academic elite, not in the world of women and men, where feminist theory is…

— Catharine MacKinnon

To the extent that we live in a postmodern world and it shapes the concrete circumstances of our daily lives, I would say postmodernism…

— Bell Hooks

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

— Ada Louise Huxtable

“An attempt to wrest from God the prerogatives of absolute freedom and infinity leads to the inversion of Pentecost and what is in effect…

— Colin E. Gunton

Postmodernity is the simultaneity of the destruction of earlier values and their reconstruction. It is renovation within ruination.

— Jean Baudrillard

“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

what exactly is postmodernism, except modernism without the anxiety?

— Jonathan Lethem

It is safest to grasp the concept of the postmodern as an attempt to think the present historically in an age that has forgotten…

— Fredric Jameson