History Quote by Stephen R.C. Hicks

“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

“Whenever two unbelievers quarrel, the may both say some very insightful things about the unsightly habits of the other. The postmodernists are very good…

— Douglas Wilson

“…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’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

“That is my second hypothesis: Postmodernism is a response to the crisis of faith of the academic far Left. Its epistemology justifies the leap…

— Stephen R.C. Hicks

“Postmodernism's specifically academic appeal comes from its being another in the sequence of all-purpose "unmasking" strategies that offer a way to criticize the intellectual…

— Thomas Nagel

“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

“For postmoderns, no knowledge is fully reliable and no concepts are absolutely indispensable.”

— Heath White

“In the eyes of postmoderns, then, modernism has failed, both as a prediction of progress and as a moral framework for culture. As a…

— Heath White

“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

“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

“Premoderns placed their trust in authority. Moderns lost their confidence in authority and placed it in human reason instead. Postmoderns kept the modern distrust…

— Heath White